Anyone any good with Palms????

[miguel]

Guys,

 

Here's some pictures of what i think is a Cabbage Palm from my ident book.

 

As you can see it's starting to die back on a couple of branches and one has completely died. The client wants to save it if possibe.

 

Questions:

 

1. Can anyone positively identify it?

 

2. What's wrong with it?

 

3. Would it respond to having the deadwood cut out and the dying pruned out?

 

I'm thinking prune it, see how it responds then if continues advise the client remove and replant?

 

Any help greatly valued.

 

Regards.

 

Mick

[phil28]

i think its a yucca dont kown about the rest

[Ian Flatters]

Looks like Cordyline australis to me. Pruned a few of them respond ok, the out of the from of my house is still alive. Looks like its just shedding a disfunctional branch.

[defenderjack]

Looks like Cordyline australis to me. Pruned a few of them respond ok, the out of the from of my house is still alive. Looks like its just shedding a disfunctional branch.

 

ditto defo looks like a cordyline !

[Hogs Breath]

Looks like Cordyline australis to me. Pruned a few of them respond ok, the out of the from of my house is still alive. Looks like its just shedding a disfunctional branch.

 

Thats a Cordyline alright probably the cold winter that sorted the branches out and is drooping the weakest.

[miguel]

Brilliant, thought as much, thanks very much for the help.

 

One last question.

 

Is there a specific season when to prune Palmae?

[Ian Flatters]

Brilliant, thought as much, thanks very much for the help.

 

One last question.

 

Is there a specific season when to prune Palmae?

 

As long as its not winter/frost.

[plippy]

weirdly ive got 2 to prune 2day for a client, but il be pruning them at ground level he he

[miguel]

Thanks all for your help!

 

How did the pruning go plippy? I've read that as palms a quite fibrous they're not the easiest to cut?

[plippy]

Thanks all for your help!

 

How did the pruning go plippy? I've read that as palms a quite fibrous they're not the easiest to cut?

 

it was a bloody nightmare, got cut to peices, really small garden, really tall, just had to put the ladder up and strop around the trunk and the silly woman reckons that it'l come back!!!! she decided that she wanted it reduced to 6ft tall:lol:, i did say that it wont come back , she reckoned it was 30 years old, the saw just wouldnt cut threw, really peed me of to be honest, i wont be doing one again in a hurry

Edited May 21, 2010 by plippy