Silver Saw Palmetto Palm – 7 Gallon Pot

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Silver Saw Palmetto Palm

Serenoa repens

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Height at Maturity: 4-6′

Width at Maturity: 6’+

Spacing: 5′ for hedge; 10′ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright Mounding Shrub

Growth Rate: Slow to Moderate

Flower Color: Gold-Yellow

Flower Size: 1/4″ in compound panicles up to 3 feet long

Flowering Period: Spring, Summer

Flower Type: Showy Panicles up to 3 feet long

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Silver, Gray

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes

Berry Color: Yellow maturing to Black

Sun Needs: Full Sun to Full Shade!

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silty, Poor Soil

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained to Dry

Soil pH: 5.5 – 8.0

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Many animals, enjoy the fruit. Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (15F), Deer, Disease, Highly Drought Tolerant, Extreme Heat, Insect, Salt (moderate)

Description

Stunning and exceptionally easy to grow in USDA Zones 8a (15F) to 11, the Silver Saw Palmetto Palm is a highly adaptable ornamental shrub form that can be grown in full sun or full shade. It features large silver-grey fans up to 3 feet long and wide with up to 20 narrow leaflets per fan. The leaves seem to become more silver the closer you get to the coast. In late spring into summer fragrant and showy yellow flowers appear in panicles up to 3 feet long. At only 4 to 6 feet tall and wide it is a good fit as a specimen in smaller garden spaces or groupings in larger landscape borders. Also nice in containers, where it will be happy for years.

Interesting Notes

An extract made from the saw palmetto has been used for hundreds of years by everyone from Mayans to Florida’s Seminole Indians for a wide spectrum of medicinal purposes. Currently saw palmetto extract is hailed as an alternative medicine for prostate problems. The petiole at the base of the leaf stem has fine, sharp teeth or spines that give the species its common name, but the plant is so low maintenance you rarely have to touch this part except to remove a damaged frond, and just wear gloves.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 4 to 6 feet tall and wide, the Silver Saw Palmetto Palm is ideal for use as a specimen in sunny or fully shaded smaller gardens spaces or home foundation plantings, or in groupings or as a barrier hedge in larger landscape borders. It is also excellent for growing in containers that can be situated around patios, decks, pools or other outdoor living spaces, and can even be grown year round as an indoor houseplant. A fine addition to tropical gardens, costal gardens and rock gardens.

Growing Preferences

The Silver Saw Palmetto Palm is easy to grow and about as easy maintenance as you can get. It is cold hardy to 15 degrees F. It prefers a very well draining sandy soil of average to very low fertility and will grow in full sun or full shade! It does not like overly rich or constantly wet soils, though will tolerate periodic flooding. It may also be grown in containers and conservatories and greenhouses where it is very tolerant of high temperatures. Additionally, it withstands strong winds and salt spray making it an ideal palm for coastal gardens.

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