cabbage palm

I have inherited a cabbage palm when we moved house, its leaves are going yellow and droping off. It has also produced 5 flower heads and is this the problem and would it be saved if I cut them off and gave it a feed of what? anyone know.

 

OK I will be the first person to unashamedly ask what a "Cabbage palm" is..........?????

 

Its one of these.

 

Take your own advice and cut them off and give it a feed. Make sure its not over or under watered. If its not in the ground and its flowering I suggest it is longing for soil and to be planted!

 

THANKS! I knew someone would put me out of my misery!

I must post about a sick trachycarpus, its been fine all winter but now looks decidedly grotty.

 

Pics. Wind can damage the leaves and they can rot if water collects in the crown.

 

Crocket, the lower leaves tend to go yellow then brown naturally, they do drop off eventually but usually hang on for a few years dead, they then strip off easily.

Cant get a good pic at this time of day but it might help.

 

As long as there is some green in the crown it should be OK, the flower forms on the growing point and it has to branch after flowering to carry on so it could possibly be looking a bit short of leaves at this time.

 

A mighty specimen, nice girth!

 

I cut 6ft off the top 2yrs ago its now at the height of the eves of the house a good 25yrs old.

 

Don't they recommend lopping it to get a multi header?

 

I wouldn't, I like the single stem myself, looks more like a palm that way.
Mine was grown from seed but some of the more recent grown plants from garden centres do appear to make more attractive plants than mine, mine tends to grow with its leaves upright, they only droop as they begin to fade. Whereas the others I have seen have a more pendulus habit.
It flowered at about 10ft and then obviously branched, but another shoot also developed at the base which I allowed to grow, so its double stemmed now.
Its a bit close to my waggie but then when they were both planted I never thought they would mature into such large plants.

[ 23. May 2006, 09:26 PM: Message edited by: pete ]

 

It looks great. My australis's are all suckers so I don't know if that will make them pendulous or straight. I don't intend moving any time soon so I shall have to find somewhere to plant it permenantly. I think it will grow quicker for being in the ground.

 

Suckers from where, they will be like the mother plant.
Yeah they belong in the ground, far too vigorous for pots really although OK for a couple of years I suppose.