Post #807818 by TIKIGIKI on Mon, Feb 6, 2023 9:20 PM

Here is a picture of one of my coconut palms. So what's a Tiki Garden without one of those? (I have three growing at the moment.) Now it must be said that these were planted against all the advice of the naysayers. "They'll never grow here....too cold in winter, you're wasting your money" etc. I had to order them as sprouted coconuts from Northern Australia and they are now nearly two years old, so they have already been through two winters. (Such as they are here. No snow or frost.) It certainly slowed them a bit but I think as they gain in size they will become more resilient.

I feed them a proprietary palm food and every time I go to the beach I bring home a flask of seawater which they seem to enjoy. You can see coconut palms growing virtually in the edge of the ocean on the Pacific islands. This summer has seen good growth and hopefully they are now fully established.