Post #807751 by TIKIGIKI on Thu, Feb 2, 2023 10:12 PM

My garden situation is certainly windy, and the leaves do get torn, but just like bananas, they tear along little preset lines in the leaves so I think it must be quite natural. I suspect a traveller's palm would do quite well where you are. Have a go anyway! Gardeners are always trying to grow plants from other climatic zones. I am very surprised that you have had no flowers on your strelitzia though. Well apart from your fake cheats! Here's my fakes, but these are in a corner of my indoor Tiki Bar.

Real ones will take those low temps easily. They grow in most difficult situations in Africa.

Is your soil acidic? If so a dose of garden lime will provoke a flowering. Or maybe you are feeding it too much nitrogen, which produces lots of leaves but inhibits flowering? I bought fertilizer supposedly specifically made for hibiscus and applied it liberally. The plants grew very bushy and lush but I have had NO flowers at all this summer. Very disappointing to say the least as I use them to decorate my bar!

PRIKLI PEAR: It must really be cold where you are to lose Canary Island Date Palms! They are notoriously hardy, taking frost easily. Some here downtown even went totally underwater for several days in a flood, but are still thriving after the receding. Do you get snow? Triangle palms become untidy as they age and look very ordinary. I'd never recommend planting them. Have you tried Queen Palms? (Syagrus romanzoffiana) They are also called Cocos Palms and are considered a weed here but that resilience may prove a positive in difficult situations.

[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2023-02-02 22:35:27 ]