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| Majestic Landscaping & Palms Located in the Piedmont area of South Carolina. Family owned we feature a wide range of landscaping and palm trees. What We Do At Majestic Landscaping, we offer cold hardy palm trees. These trees include the state tree palmetto (cabbage palm) and the real cold hardy palms, the windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) and pindo palm ( Butia capitata) we also offer the dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) , needle palm ( rhapidophyllum hystrix), and sago (cycas revoluta). |
| Planting The Palm Never plant a palm tree to deep, I have seen some crazy things out in the field. Palm trees planted with 2 ft of trunk in the ground., so the wind wouldn't knock it over. Yes it was dead.... Make sure no part of the trunk is in the ground. Watering palms... Some people make the mistake, and just water the ground around the palm tree. The palm trees heart is at the top of the tree. Lets think about that one. If you just planted the palm and like the last few years, we been going through a drought, you better make sure you water the top of the tree. That's the heart of the tree. Most hotels use small water lines going up the tree, so it can mist the tree. For years i have been using a tripod sprinkler that can shoot water up 30ft high. The ground will still get water from that. Good rule to follow, top water- bottom nutrients. We are currently growing 20 acres of SC windmill palms & pindo palms we will import some mule palms in 2009 We also have fields of pindo palms growing in upstate Fla. for our customers Good luck with your palm tree, and if you ever need to find out any additional information please call us. |
Phone ( 803 ) 287-8483 Toll Free ( 877 ) 826-1623 327 hwy 200 N Lancaster SC 29720
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Palm Tree Facts
Our Palm Trees
Lets Plant A Palmetto
Q: Will a palmetto tree live in the upstate area?
A: Yes
We have been planting palm trees in the upstate for
10 years. The key to planting palm trees in clay is new soil,
or cultivating.
The palmetto palm (Cabbage palm) is the hardest palm of
all to plant. Lets find out why. When you shop for
palmettos, you are looking at a tree that's 10-20 ft tall.
Remember that tree was growing 50 to 80 years in Florida.
When the palmetto is dug, most of the root system will
die, you will notice the top of the palmetto is all gone
except the small green center ( the bud ), this is called
hurricane cut. It's done for transportation and remember
most of all the root system is gone. Lets say they kept all
of the limbs ( fronds ) on the tree. You will have a lot of
fronds and no root system to support the tree, bad
mistake.
Now to the soil. We have found out in the upstate, new
soil is best. Digging a hole in clay can be a palmetto trees
grave, if the hole doesn't drain, water will stay in the hole
and root rot will occur. We have planted 100's of
palmettos and have found out raised beds are very
important. It allows drain and the root system can move
with ease. It will take about 3 years to get your tree
established with the right fertilizer and watering.
Our Palmetto planting season is...
2nd week in march through mid September
Q: Will a palmetto tree live in the upstate area?
A: Yes
We have been planting palm trees in the upstate for
10 years. The key to planting palm trees in clay is new soil,
or cultivating.
The palmetto palm (Cabbage palm) is the hardest palm of
all to plant. Lets find out why. When you shop for
palmettos, you are looking at a tree that's 10-20 ft tall.
Remember that tree was growing 50 to 80 years in Florida.
When the palmetto is dug, most of the root system will
die, you will notice the top of the palmetto is all gone
except the small green center ( the bud ), this is called
hurricane cut. It's done for transportation and remember
most of all the root system is gone. Lets say they kept all
of the limbs ( fronds ) on the tree. You will have a lot of
fronds and no root system to support the tree, bad
mistake.
Now to the soil. We have found out in the upstate, new
soil is best. Digging a hole in clay can be a palmetto trees
grave, if the hole doesn't drain, water will stay in the hole
and root rot will occur. We have planted 100's of
palmettos and have found out raised beds are very
important. It allows drain and the root system can move
with ease. It will take about 3 years to get your tree
established with the right fertilizer and watering.
Our Palmetto planting season is...
2nd week in march through mid September
Palm Tree Search Engine |
| Worldwide, the family Palmae is composed of over 230 genera and about 3000 species. Only a few of these are indigenous to the continental United States, and most of these are restricted to the warmer regions of southern United States, southern Florida and southern California. However, a large number of exotic species have been imported for ornamental purposes and a few of these have become widely naturalized. For identification purposes, palm trees can be divided into two major groups: those that have palmate or fan-shaped leaves; and those that have pinnate, or feather- shaped leaves. The palmate-leaved species are characterized by a leaf structure in which all leaf segments arise from a single point, similar to the structure of a human hand. Pinnate leaves are characterized by leaves along each side of a central axis, similar in design to that of a feather. Palm Trees Leaves The leaves of palms are either arranged at more or less distant intervals along the stem, as in the canes, or are approximated in tufts at the end of the stem, I thus forming those noble crowns of foliage which are so closely associated with the general idea of a palm. In the young condition, while still unfolded, these leaves, with the succulent end of the stem from which they arise, form “the cabbage,” which in some species is highly esteemed as an article of food. The inflorescence of palms consists generally of a fleshy spike, either simple or much branched, studded with numerous, sometimes extremely numerous, flowers, and enveloped by one or more sheathing bracts called “ spathes “. These parts may be small, or they may attain relatively enormous dimensions, hanging down from amid the crown of foliage like huge tresses, and adding greatly to the noble effect of the leaves. In some cases, as in the Talipot palm, the tree only flowers once; it grows for many years until it has become a large tree then develops a huge inflorescence, and after the fruit has ripened, dies. |
| Palm Trees Seeds The Palm tree seeds show a corresponding variety in size and shape, but always consist of a mass of endosperm, in which is embedded a relatively very minute embryo. The hard stone of the date is the endosperm, the white oily flesh of the coco-nut is the same substance in a softer condition; the so-called “vegetable ivory” is derived from the endosperm of Phytelephas. In some genera the inner seed coat becomes thickened along the course of the vascular bundles and growing into the endosperm produces the characteristic appearance in section known as ruminate—this is well shown in the Areca nut. |
Palm Trees Flowers
insignificant; their general structure has been mentioned
already. Modifications from the typical structure arise from
difference of texture, and specially from suppression of parts,
in consequence of which the flowers are very generally
unisexual, though the flowers of the two sexes are generally
produced on the same tree (monoecious), not indeed always
in the same season, for a tree in one year may produce all male
flowers and in the next all female flowers. Sometimes the
flowers are modified by an increase in the number of parts;
thus the usually six stamens may be represented by I2'to 24 or
even by hundreds. The carpel's are usually three in number,
and more or less combined; but they may be free, and their
number may be reduced to two or even one. In any case
each carpel contains but a single ovule.
Owing to the sexual arrangements before mentioned, the
pollen has to be transported by the agency of the wind or of
insects to the female flowers. This is facilitated sometimes by the
elastic movements of the stamens and anthers, which liberate
the pollen so freely at certain times that travelers speak of the
date-palms of Egypt (Phoenix dactylifera) being ‘at daybreak
hidden in a mist of pollen grains. In other cases fertilization is
effected by the agency of man, who removes the male flowers
and scatters the pollen over the fruit-bearing trees. This
practice has been followed in the case of the date from time
immemorial; and it afforded one of the earliest and most
irrefragable proofs by means of which the sexuality of plants
was finally established. In the course of ripening of the fruit
two of the carpel's with their ovules may become absorbed, as
in the coco-nut, the fruit of which contains only one seed
though the three carpel's are indicated by the three
longitudinal sutures and by the presence of three germ-pores
on the hard endocarp.
Palm Trees Fruit
The Palm tree fruit is various in form, size and character;
sometimes, as in the common date it is a berry with a fleshy
rind enclosing a hard stony kernel, the true seed; the fruit of
Areca is similar; sometimes it is a kind of drupe as in
Acrccomia, or the coconut, Cocos nucif era, where the fibrous
central portion investing the hard shell corresponds to the
fleshy portion of a plum or cherry, while the shell or nut
corresponds to the stone of stone-fruits, the seed being the
kernel. In Borassus the three seeds are each enclosed in a
separate chamber formed by the stony endocarp. Sometimes,
as in the species of Metroxylon, Raphia, Daemonorops, &c,,
the fruit is covered with hard, pointed, reflexed shining scales,
which give it a very remarkable appearance.
insignificant; their general structure has been mentioned
already. Modifications from the typical structure arise from
difference of texture, and specially from suppression of parts,
in consequence of which the flowers are very generally
unisexual, though the flowers of the two sexes are generally
produced on the same tree (monoecious), not indeed always
in the same season, for a tree in one year may produce all male
flowers and in the next all female flowers. Sometimes the
flowers are modified by an increase in the number of parts;
thus the usually six stamens may be represented by I2'to 24 or
even by hundreds. The carpel's are usually three in number,
and more or less combined; but they may be free, and their
number may be reduced to two or even one. In any case
each carpel contains but a single ovule.
Owing to the sexual arrangements before mentioned, the
pollen has to be transported by the agency of the wind or of
insects to the female flowers. This is facilitated sometimes by the
elastic movements of the stamens and anthers, which liberate
the pollen so freely at certain times that travelers speak of the
date-palms of Egypt (Phoenix dactylifera) being ‘at daybreak
hidden in a mist of pollen grains. In other cases fertilization is
effected by the agency of man, who removes the male flowers
and scatters the pollen over the fruit-bearing trees. This
practice has been followed in the case of the date from time
immemorial; and it afforded one of the earliest and most
irrefragable proofs by means of which the sexuality of plants
was finally established. In the course of ripening of the fruit
two of the carpel's with their ovules may become absorbed, as
in the coco-nut, the fruit of which contains only one seed
though the three carpel's are indicated by the three
longitudinal sutures and by the presence of three germ-pores
on the hard endocarp.
Palm Trees Fruit
The Palm tree fruit is various in form, size and character;
sometimes, as in the common date it is a berry with a fleshy
rind enclosing a hard stony kernel, the true seed; the fruit of
Areca is similar; sometimes it is a kind of drupe as in
Acrccomia, or the coconut, Cocos nucif era, where the fibrous
central portion investing the hard shell corresponds to the
fleshy portion of a plum or cherry, while the shell or nut
corresponds to the stone of stone-fruits, the seed being the
kernel. In Borassus the three seeds are each enclosed in a
separate chamber formed by the stony endocarp. Sometimes,
as in the species of Metroxylon, Raphia, Daemonorops, &c,,
the fruit is covered with hard, pointed, reflexed shining scales,
which give it a very remarkable appearance.
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