Phoenix Species, Cretan Date Palm

My young plants from seed were touchy in the potted stage. They balked, started looking sickly , only solution was to get them in the gr...Read Moreound a.s.a.p.
Very drought Hardy, but slow growing without water.
Very vicious prickly plants. My solution for permanently removing the suckers while young is take a long handled screw driver, push it far down into the central leaf of the young sucker and twist to kill the growing point.
This works for other suckering palms like Mediterranean fan, where you want a single trunk.

I have over a dozen of these dudes (1-2 ft. OA) in pots outside exposed to all the elements and snow and they got hit by 12F-14F this BRU...Read MoreTAL winter, so they are half brown half green now, but kickin'. I'm planting them out in the open this spring.

I love this palm, but I've been advised that it is only cold hardy to 15f here in the SE. Bummer!

I have collected the drupes when on holiday in Crete, they are very easy to grow and I have plants aged from 2 to 5 years old, to 60cm ta...Read Morell. The plants are very robust and need little in the way of attention, I do however over-wintered them in the greenhouse, although with global warming this is becoming less of a problem in SE England. Pot on every year and if you have suitable soil (free draining) and climate you can plant outside an get a very elegant palm (to 10m, with a similar spread). The soil in crete is calcarious but I use a loam based compost mixed with gravel in which the plants thrive. In Crete you see quite old specimens in tiny pots outside local tavernas, which one can only assume have never been fed, yet look very healthy, very drought resistant.