Best indoor palm tree?????

Question

Looking to buy a indoor palm tree. Wondering what type will be the best to grow indoors not too hard to take care of and end up looking the most like a palm tree? Some people tell me pygmy date palms??? I live in ohio so there's really no where to get a palm tree whats the best place online to get one? Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

try getting a plastic one they look so real no maintaence .Add some low lights around the neck .IT will look great day and night.Try your local home and garden,or big lots.

Answer 2

i think pygmy date palms look great. if you have a high celing you can grow a canary island date palm

also windmill palms grow great indoors and stay very small yet look like a palm tree at a young age.

also in a sheltered spot next to your house away from wind, needle palms can actualy survive winters outside in ohio if near the southen border or the great lakes area. needle palms can survive 0 fahenheit its first winter if planted in the spring, and by its second winter can survive to -5. by its third winter it can survive to -10 and the more winters it survives the more cold tollerant. the most it can surivive is -20 so it is very cold tollerant and likes hot summers making it a great palm for the ohio area

Answer 3

They haven't told you any scientific names

Phoenix Roebelenii

Pygmy Date Palm, Miniature Date Palm. Another one of the popular feather palms that grows slowly to about 6 feet in height, with a spread of about 3 feet. The leaf or frond is finely divided, giving it a graceful appearance. It requires uniform soil moisture. Temperatures should be tropical -- 80+ degrees during the day, and if possible, about 15 degrees cooler at night. This plant is subject to the usual mealybugs, aphids and other pests if the environment isn't right.

The ones in the stores are juvenile and haven't developed the trunk. It looks like a palm tree with age.

Chamaedora spp.

Reed and Bamboo Palms. These plants can be useful in low to medium light situations where fullness and height are required. Keep soil moist and air temperature warm. These are  very vigourous but skinny and not overwhelmingly huge for their height. Also because these produce sucker(branches from the mother plant) you can cut older overgrown stems when they get to big and have more stems.

These are also nicknamed the "cat palms" in trade.They can resemble an island of palm trees.

Rhaphis sp. AKA Lady Palms are also easy to care for.

Like the bamboo they produce suckers and can be cut back when the older stems get too. These produce fan leaves and can make a room look Oriental or Asian. Another toughie these ladies tolerate low light, adverage humidity, and cool nights.

My palm tips:

Do not cut the tippy-tops off the stems of your palm tree like you do other plants. You'll kill that stem.

Plant in a average potting soil adding pebbles to the bottom of the container and some sand as palms are do not like soggy soil.

Keep soil of your palm trees medium moist.

Don't put in full sunlight.

Keep the air on the humid side. Use a humidifier or mist the plants with a spay bottle during the winter.