Welcome! Participants are urged to post any information pertinent to plants, weather, or topics related to either. Off-topic posts, inflammatory posts and advertisements are subject to removal at the discretion of the moderators. Please limit image size to no larger than about 950x700 pixels so that everyone can easily view it. To post an image, it must first be uploaded to a remote server somewhere on the internet such as photobucket.com. |
Search Engine for Archived Messages | Search for Recently Deleted Messages Here |
The book “Hardy Palms for the Southeast” writes that S. Minor prefers a moist, sunny location, and that an ideal situation for them is a bank of a creek or lake. And Odenwald and Turner’s classic text says: “the water table and soil moisture content have a major influence on plant size; the size varies with habitat: plants in lowlands are large and palmlike but are somewhat stunted in dry, open fields where they may not grow over two feet tall”.
So, Minors like the sun but also like moisture - a contradiction at most sites.
My neighbors’s decision to take out mature trees in recent years has meant a lot more sun on my Minors. By providing them plenty of water (as I always had) the result is larger, leafier Minors for me, even for ones that have been in the ground for 10+ years. Interesting.
Responses
« Back to index | View thread »