Product Description:
The well-named bottle palm tree, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, is an eye-catching evergreen palm for your garden or container whose trunk bears a startling resemblance to a fine bottle of wine. It’s a compact tree, topping out at 10 to 15 feet considerably smaller if grown indoors and it fits nicely into petite gardens. As an outdoor plant, the bottle palm is best suited to the southern parts of the U.S., in USDA hardiness zones 10 to 11. Indoors, however, it will thrive whenever placed in front of a sunny window, requiring little extra care.
Light:
Your bottle palm tree will thrive in an area of full sun six to eight hours of direct light a day.
Water:
Water frequently when young.
Fertilizer:
Fertilize with a slow-release product designed for palm trees as directed throughout the growing season.
Soil:
It grows best in well-draining and loose soil amended with ample potassium. However, it will do just as fine in regular garden soil.
Temperature:
As a general rule of thumb, palms prefer temperatures no lower than The leaves of the plant may suffer in temperatures below (50° C) Fahrenheit.
Pruning
Like most palms, bottle palm trees need little regular pruning. As their fronds age, they will begin to turn brown and dry up, and at this point you can cut them off at the trunk.
