Palm trees are an excellent addition to any landscape design when you are looking to add a tropical or Mediterranean flair to your yard. Maybe you’d like to spruce up your poolscape by planting some tropical palms or resort-style palms around your pool to add to the relaxing feel of your backyard oasis. How about adding some multi-trunk Mediterranean fan palms and other stately palm trees to your front yard design to generate huge amounts of curb appeal?
No matter what area of your yard you’d like to plant palm trees in, here are the top ten palm tree varieties to plant in Texas landscapes.
Palms in the Date Palm family are a wonderful way of adding a distinguished, resort-style look to your landscape. Their long, graceful fronds and textured diamond-cut trunks bring a majestic, stately appearance to any yard.
For formal plantings, plant Resort-style Date Palms™ in rows of same height specimens. They look great planted along entries and driveways or as regal property borders. For a semi-formal or natural effect, plant Date Palms in groups of 3 or 5 of varying height, creating a desert oasis or tropical paradise look.
These palm trees are gorgeous when lit up at night and work well by themselves or planted to line walkways, pools, sitting areas, and driveways. Their elegant look is prized not only by businesses, malls, and developers but has quickly become a homeowner favorite.
They are known by many names from Silver Date Palm and Indian Date Palm to Sugar Date Palm and Wild Date Palm. No matter what name you prefer to call them, their striking diamond trunk pattern and crown of blue-green fronds add a touch of elegance to any landscape.
These date palms are fast-growing, cold-hardy, and easy to care for. Sylvester Date Palms are a fan-favorite for planting near pools due to their drought tolerance, low maintenance requirements, and jaw-dropping good looks. We recommend planting them in rows along driveways, entries, or property borders and installing up-lighting for a dramatic nighttime show!
Additionally, Pygmy Date Palms are one of the cleanest palm varieties, furthering their position as one of our preferred palm trees to plant around pools and patios. They require minimal maintenance and only need to be pruned when the soft, bright green foliage turns brown as it ages.
These hardy palms love the sun, cold, and everything in between! While most palm tree varieties are easy to care for and low maintenance, many types of Fan palms can be planted in very hot environments while being able to handle extreme cold and winter freezes as well.
If you're looking to take this versatile palm to the next level, install night lighting effects. When you give these palms time in the spotlight, their unique multi-trunk structure becomes illuminated, while the fronds cast unique shadow patterns on nearby walls.
These wonderful palms are also well known for their durability. They require minimal water once planted and can become drought tolerant once established. Mediterranean Fan Palms can tolerate full sun and are cold hardy, able to survive periods of freezing weather conditions.
Hybrid Fan Palms are great for use as taller focal points in palm-centric landscapes. They are fast-growing, durable, and easy to care for. Thanks to the Hybrid Fan Palm’s grand, statuesque appearance and spectacular fronds, homeowners may want to install night lighting to show off this palm’s attractive features at all hours.
These fan palms are great for use in small patios, narrow spaces, gardens, entryways, and any place in your landscape where a gentle tropical appeal is desired. These palm trees also look fantastic around swimming pools, where smooth water can reflect the graceful fan-shaped fronds.
The deep greens and lush fronds of tropical palm trees allow you to create an island getaway right at your home! These palms are perfect planting companions to the other palms in this guide. Kick back and enjoy a tasty cocktail near the plants of the tropics!
Grown purely from superior Argentine seedlings with better genetic traits, these Moon Valley Nurseries Piru Queen Palms™ are at the top of the class in the Queen Palm family due to their superior durability and grand appearance. Piru Queen Palms™ feature thicker and harder trunks as well as greener palm fronds and fuller crowns than other Queen Palms do.
Piru Queen Palms™ are a focal point anywhere you choose to plant them and will complement a wide variety of landscape and home architectural styles. Occasional seasonal trimming, such as removing dead fronds, will help to keep the majestic look of these palms intact all year round.
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These palms thrive in temperamental soils that other palms may struggle in. Alkaline, salty, heavy clay, and even caliche-type soils are no problem for the King Piru Palm™. Since they are hybrid palms, and therefore sterile, you can expect very little to no litter throughout the year. Going one step further, these palm trees have the incredible ability to not only thrive in the hottest summer sun our area can bring but they’re also cold hardy in winter temperatures down to 12 degrees F!
Sago Palms are tolerant of cold and heat and can be grown in full sun exposures as well as full to partial shade. They require minimal maintenance and the only pruning needed is to remove old leaves. Due to their drought tolerance, Sago Palms work well in all landscape styles from tropical to xeriscape-styled yards.
Palm trees are generally some of the easier trees to care for, but it is important to know some care tips for palm trees to keep them looking their best. Let’s take a look at the three biggest factors of growing healthy palms.
Our professional designers love to create landscape designs with palm trees, and we have thousands of palm trees for sale at all our nursery locations. If you would like to have some expert help in creating the home paradise of your dreams, feel free to reach out to incredible designers. They will create a resort-worthy escape in your yard while making the process easy so you will be able to simply enjoy your new landscape instead of needing a vacation from planning it out!
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