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Monday, April 1, 2024

Kentia Palms - Perfect for Southern California The Gregory Palm Farms, give us a call at 714-814-8525 or 760-975-4605 GOT SHADE? WHERE TO FIND KENTIAS AND ALL PALMS? Gregory Palm Farms

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Kentia Palms, one of the most elegant of the palms. Perfect for Southern California. Can adapt to full sun or be grown in partial sun. Great when grouped as two to five plants. A very graceful, solitary, medium sized palm, with a dark green ringed trunk, to about 10m tall. It has beautifully drooping, dark green leaflets, and a brown hessian like thatch around the leaf bases.

Kentia Palm Characteristics Stem/Trunk: The trunk is swollen at the base and has slightly raised annular trunk rings. Exposure: Grow best in 35%-80% of full sunlight, tolerating direct sun only after about five years old. Soil: Rich loamy soil with excellent drainage Water: Moderately drought tolerant, and should be watered before the soil completely dries. Growth Rate: Slow growth 40'- 60' height

Whether you are a contractor or a homeowner looking for top quality, Southern California grown palm trees, give us a call today at (714) 814-8525 All of our palms are 100% guaranteed, we stand behind our product in any case. We are fourth generation farmers and know how to raise the best product in the palm tree market. If you are planning to install multiple palm trees, call us today for a FREE consultation. One of our Gregory Palm Farms family members will come to your home or project site and help with the complete overall design and recommend the best trees for your installation. Call (714) 814-8525 or 760-975-4605 to schedule an appointment today! You can also visit our website for a complete catalog of palm trees along with pictures and descriptions http://gregorypalmfarms.com

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Washingtonia Filifera- The only native palm to California! AVAILABLE AT Gregory Palm Farms WHERE THE PALMS GROW HAPPY! FULL SERVICE FROM DELIVERY TO INSTALLATION

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Here we have the California Fan Palm that grows so nicely and slowly in our native state.

A great palm tree that requires little water.

California Desert Fan Palm

Washingtonia Filifera

If you close your eyes and imagine a typical Southern California landscape, chances are that you've pictured at least one palm tree, if not several, rising from the ground. But despite the diversity and ubiquity of palms in the Los Angeles area, only one species—Washingtonia filifera, the California fan palm—is native to California. All of L.A.'s other palm species, from the slender Mexican fan palms that line so many L.A. boulevards to the feather-topped Canary Island date palm, have been imported.

Range

Occur naturally in desert oases in isolated areas of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of southeastern California, southwestern Arizona, and northern Baja California, Mexico, at elevations between 500 and 1,000 feet. Widely cultivated as an ornamental in Southern California.

Habitat

Moist soils along alkaline streams and in mountain canyons.

Description

There are 2,500 species of palms worldwide, with 11 native to North America. The largest of these, and the only palm tree native to western North America, is the California fan palm. It is also known as the desert palm and the California Washingtonia. It should not be confused with the date palm.

The fan palm has a large, gray unbranched trunk with horizontal lines and vertical fissures. The trunk is 2 to 3 feet in diameter and grows 20 to 60 feet high. The fan palm has numerous evergreen leaves, composed of leaf stalks, 3 to 5 feet long, with hooked spines along the edges.

These fan-shaped leaves spread from around the top of the tree while numerous old, dead leaves hang down against the trunk. For this reason it is sometimes also called the petticoat palm. The dead leaves form a protective area that provides habitat and shelter for many creatures, including birds, insects and small rodents.

In the spring, huge clusters of white, 3-lobed, funnel-shaped flowers, about 1/2 inch long, hang down from leaf bases.

The California fan palm does not produce dates, but does fruit elliptical black "berries" about 1/2 inch in diameter. These berries have a very large, brown seed surrounded by a thin, sweet pulp, which native Americans ate fresh or dried. They also ground the seeds into flour. Hooded orioles and coyotes feast on the seeds as well, aiding the palms' proliferation.

Rare groves of the fan palm can be seen in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, near Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Park in California, and near Yuma, Arizona.

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At Gregory Palm Farms our goal is to produce the very best palms suitable for the Southern California area.