Cardboard Plant Care

It provides a year round display of striking foliage and once established requires little water or maintenance helping explain why it was named a 2007 florida plant of the year by the florida nursery growers landscape association fngla.

Cardboard plant care. Keep the sand moderately moist and transplant when the root base is robust. In zones cooler than 9 grow cardboard plant indoors as a houseplant. We have shown all this in this video. The cardboard palm plant is easy to care for in a garden.

Soil watering location fertilizers etc. These are fairly hardy though you should keep them out of the extreme cold. On feb 6 2008 chellamaral from vero beach fl wrote. I am a horticulture professional but realitively new to florida gardening.

Cardboard palm plant is one of those ancient plants with a lot of character. Remove old foliage for a tidy appearance and fertilise yearly using a slow release fertiliser. Though they don t require too much water try to keep their soil fairly moist. I recently installed a 100 native landscape planting on 1 4 acre.

Cardboard plants make excellent beach plants as they tolerate salt and can grow in almost pure sand if necessary. Use bark or leaf mold to mulch cardboard plant. Zamia furfuracea is a cycad native to southeastern veracruz state in eastern mexico although not a palm tree its growth habit is superficially similar to a palm. An attractive plant but i m not finding it as easy to care for as others have.

Maintenance is minimal when growing cardboard palms. Extremely bright light is best for cardboard palms. Young cardboard palm care includes moderate light until the second set of true leaves appears. Therefore it is commonly known as cardboard palm or cardboard cycad other names include cardboard plant cardboard sago jamaican sago and mexican cycad from mexican spanish cícada mexicana.

Make sure their soil drains well but other than that. Hardy plant tolerates heat and dry conditions once established. Once the seedling has emerged it will look nothing like your adult plant. Cardboard palm zamia furfuracea care tips.

Prefers dry conditions during winter. Very good plant for indoor and out door suitable for. Find information on caring for cardboard palms in this article. Click here to learn more and grow one of your own.