Cycads, Bananas and Bamboos
Cycads are also often called Sago palms. Bananas and Bamboos are not trees, but are big tropical grasses. They all have nothing to do with palms, but are as beautiful and exotic plants as palms.
King Sago
Cycas revoluta, King Sago from Botanical garden - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The Cycads are not a true palms, they are ancient gymnospermous plants, contemporary of the dinosaurus.
A huge fallacy about the King Sago is that they are difficult and demanding plants. This fallacy is supported by the wrong growing advices, that people receive at the flower shops.
The King Sago is a very easy to grow plant. What they need is regular watering and fertilizing. During the summer they need to be moved outside to a very bright light and should get at least 2-3 hours direct sun. During the winter they should be stored in a cool place with plenty of light.
The main problems with Cycads in pot are due to low light or too little water.
More information is available on our forum:
Availability: 2 pcs
Giant bamboo, Phyllostachys aureosulcata Spectabilis
Phyllostachys 'Spectabilis', Giant bamboo
This giant bamboo is one of the most cold hardy of the large bamboos and is a very popular bamboo. It could reach up to 16 m.
The Golden bamboo is cold resistant down to at least -18°C, but its rhizome could survive after at least -25°C. However, in colder areas, where temperatures regularily drop below -18°C, this bamboo could hardly get taller than 8-10 meters, after many years. In areas outside of the temperature inversions in southern Bulgaria, the Golden bamboo could reach its full potential and more than 12 meters of height.
It is important to regularily water and fertilize the bamboo. This bamboo tolerates lime soil quite well.
All photos are from our experimental filield in Assenovgrad, Bulgaria, zone 7b. We grow this bamboo there for more than 7 year
Availability: 20 pcs
Black bamboo
Black Bamboo
Phyllostachys nigra
More information is available in Bulgarian on our forum:
Availability: 27 pcs
Giant Taro
Giant Taro
Alocasia macrorrhiza
Giant Taro is a well-known tropical plant. Usualy grown as an internal plant. Extremely attractive with its flowers and dark green leaves that allow it to grow well even in low light conditions.
The plant causes an eating disorder in humans if consumed unprocessed, but the interesting fact is that more than three hundred million people rely precisely on the trefoil as the main food source. All parts of the plant are edible after proper heat treatment.
Availability: 1 pcs
Giant golden Vivax bamboo, f. 'Aureocaulis'
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<p>This giant bamboo is one of the most cold hardy of the large bamboos and is a very popular bamboo. It could reach up to 16 m.</p>
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<p>The Golden Vivax bamboo is cold resistant down to at least -18°C, but its rhizome could survive after at least -25°C. However, in colder areas, where temperatures regularily drop below -18°C, this bamboo could hardly get taller than 8-10 meters, after many years. In areas outside of the temperature inversions in southern Bulgaria, the Golden Vivax bamboo could reach its full potential and more than 12 meters of height.</p>
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<p>It is important to regularily water and fertilize the bamboo. This bamboo tolerates lime soil quite well.</p>
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<p>All photos are from our experimental filield in Assenovgrad, Bulgaria, zone 7b. We grow this bamboo there for more than 7 years.</p>
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<p>More information is available in Bulgarian on our forum:</p>
<p><a href="http://forum.palmi.bg/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=44" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000FF;">http://forum.palmi.bg/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=44</span></a></p>
Availability: 6 pcs
King Sago
Cycas revoluta, King Sago from Botanical garden - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The Cycads are not a true palms, they are ancient gymnospermous plants, contemporary of the dinosaurus.
A huge fallacy about the King Sago is that they are difficult and demanding plants. This fallacy is supported by the wrong growing advices, that people receive at the flower shops.
The King Sago is a very easy to grow plant. What they need is regular watering and fertilizing. During the summer they need to be moved outside to a very bright light and should get at least 2-3 hours direct sun. During the winter they should be stored in a cool place with plenty of light.
The main problems with Cycads in pot are due to low light or too little water.
More information is available on our forum:
Availability: 14 pcs
King Sago
Cycas revoluta, King Sago from Botanical garden - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The Cycads are not a true palms, they are ancient gymnospermous plants, contemporary of the dinosaurus.
A huge fallacy about the King Sago is that they are difficult and demanding plants. This fallacy is supported by the wrong growing advices, that people receive at the flower shops.
The King Sago is a very easy to grow plant. What they need is regular watering and fertilizing. During the summer they need to be moved outside to a very bright light and should get at least 2-3 hours direct sun. During the winter they should be stored in a cool place with plenty of light.
The main problems with Cycads in pot are due to low light or too little water.
More information is available on our forum:
Availability: 5 pcs
Japanese hardy banana
Japanese Hardy Banana
This is not a palm. Bananas are a monocotyledonous family of plants (Musaceae), that are closer to the grasses and have nothing to do with palms. From a botanical point of view, these are giant grasses. They develop a strong underground root mass called rhizome.
Musa basjoo is world famous as the cold hardiest banana. Like any other banana, its leaves will die off at temperatures below -2°C and trunks are damaged at temperatures below -7 to -8°C. But rhizome successfully overwinters in the ground and starts a new clump next spring. According to our experience, with an elementary and simple protection the rhizome will survive an air temperature below -25°C and start a new plant in early April.
Bananas grow very fast. Even after complete freezing of the green parts, in just a single growing season it will re-grow as a small banana forest with 3 to 5 meters of height. Of course, under the bananas the shade is thick.
More information about bananas is available on our forum:
Availability: 52 pcs
