Canary Island Date Palm Trees

[jhenry]

what do you think? I love them! Canary Island Date Palms are beautiful...They look majestic and so big when mature.

Does any one have one that is pruned and shaven? I would like to see some nice specimens. I think I might buy one but waiting till my tax return comes.

I want some CLEAR TRUNK on my Canary Island Date Palm. Having the smaller ones do not do it justice.

Well show me some Canary Island Date Palm Trees... here are some pics i found online

Beautiful






Thisone is not so nice, needs to be shaven a little more, but still is beautiful

[LPN]

those are nice pictures of the Canary Island Date Palm. I have some friends that have the Canary Island Date.

[gardengirl]

I like the Middle Picture. It looks perfect. These are considered cold hardy palm trees can you believe that....

[Palmera]

It is very nice for the size it is.

[plantlover]

The last Canary Island Date Palm Tree is huge. The right size canary palm should be taken into consideration when planting where ever. Those mammoth palm will over power and small house. I wonder how long it takes to get that large. The one in the last picture...

[constantgardener]

What type of soil should i use? I just got my canary island date palm, like the one in the first picture but to tell you the truth its ten times nicer. Anyways..It is balled and Burlapped sitting in my front yard waiting to be planted but Im not sure what soil i should use. ....

[jimmyg]

All the date palms are nice. Pineapple palms are beautiful even at a young immature stage. I like the common name of Pineapple palm better than the Canary Island Palm. It is basically named after where it is from which is not creative. Oh and if you didnt pick up what I mean about where they are from, well they are from the Canary islands off of Africa I believe.

[david_palau]

Hello! sorry about my "english" I often try to read you.

I want to show you some wild "canary palms"; like they´re known in spanish. or "canarian palm" i haven´t a clue, how to say it, sorry jajaja


These are in Gran Canaria Island, in Canary Islands

Gran Canaria Palmerales - Foro de InfoJardín

Chu Majek: foros. / Palmerales de Canarias

I hope you enjoy it

[gardengirl]

I clicked on the links david and I think I have never ever seen a canary island date so tall before. I was amazed. At first there was just a bunch on links but then when I scrolled down I saw the pictures of the super gigantic sized Canary Island Date Palms.

Amazing. Thanks for that neat link.

[david_palau]

Thanks. I love "canary palms" xD





But you have very big palms in USA too !! I think some of these are in California.

[Eriksji]

Canary Island date palm. If you would like to purchase or see photos you should check out

DATEPALM.com | Groundworks of Palm Beach County, Inc. | Specimen Medjools, Zahidis, Canaries and more! I just ran across there website and let me tell you what they have is very impressive. They have a large photo album.

[david_palau]

I´m from Canary Islands. We name(spanish people) phoenix dactylifera "date palm", because dates are usually for eating.

And we name phoenix canariensis "canary palm" . Too very large for calling "canary island date palm tree"

The Eriksji´s link shows mostly phoenix dactylifera, do not to scramble ! Dactyliferas are thin, gaunt, lean.. ; and leafs aren´t so green and brilliant like canaries.

Dactylifera: http://mgonline.com/media/Images/p/p...tylifera01.jpg
http://www.plantapalm.com/Vpe/photos...actylifera.JPG

Canariensis: http://www.backyardnature.net/mexnat/phoenix.jpg
http://www.vivaidichio.net/public/ph...anariensis.jpg

Sorry, what a boring lecture!

[loverofpalms]

I wonder how much that contract cost for all those super huge canary island date palms. Even Canary island date palms at wholesale, the price tag would be huge. But what a site. very beautiful.

[Island Girl]

Beautiful!!!! I like the foxtail too. The palm at the far right close to the house by the glass window, is that a foxtail or christmas palm?

[John]

Plant them in pure sand, compost it later. Mine grew from 1 ft OA to about 15 ft OA in 9 years. Also leave the leaves on as long as you can, they feed the plant and produce a larger trunk. There are 2 down the road from my home that people planted too close to the house and they have to keep them trimmed severly - they are not growing.
Mine love fertilizer and deficiencies of K and Mg occur anually if I don't feed adequately.

[IthinkIknow]

They enjoy the hot desert heat not the humid blazing sun. Every time I visit Florida, I see people planting Canary Island Dates everywhere., they do get used to the weather but the trunks tend to be smaller than desert grown ones. The Sylvester Date Palm does better or even the pygmy date palm. I would say out of all the date palms, the Pygmy Date Palm would do the best in Florida. Now that's just my ramble but its a good one for those that know what I'm talking about.

Also, you want to know something... these dang computers keep shutting down on me every time I try to do something. I don't know what it is... I'm starting to think I'm getting to old and my wrinkles are hitting the wrong keys. Thank goodness for that red squiggly line that tells me I misspelled a word. If it wasn't for the red squiggly line, my writing would look like hieroglyphics.

Getting back to the point at hand, something else that should be pointed out to those that do not know is that you cannot have grass coming too close to the trunk of the Canary Island Date. I have seen too many die from that hideous Ganoderma Butt rot that happens when you cut or nick the trunk. Try to keep a mulch bed or something surrounding the trunk so nothing can cut it.

Well that's my two cents for ya, from an old guy that knows some stuff..

[homesteadpalmgrower]

Those Canary's are the Tallest I have ever seen in my life and I grow them for a living. THe Canary Island Date Palm I though only grew to about 40 FT. I guess I was wrong.

[jackmackin]

Canary Date Palms are awesome, one of my favorite palm trees. I like the ones grown in the west side. The ones here always get the Ferns growing on the Nut Part.

Why do Canary's in Florida get ferns growing on them?

[Jville wassup]

they are yellowing pretty bad. I bought some fertilizer but its not helping and its been about a month. Any ideas that could turn them back green before the winter comes. I already sprayed them down for insects and fungus but I just need them green!

[Secretary in the Office]

Just received two windmills and myself and husband placed them in the ground a couple of days ago and now we want to make it a tropical paradise. Some people say the pineapple palm is cold hardy, will they do good with my windmills? and what if it snows?