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Helpful articles
Green walls (or Vertical Garden). Learn how to create an amazing vertical garden wall using a variety of plants including herbs.
Microclimates in your garden. Did you know your whole garden may be a microclimate that allows you to grow plants that would not thrive on the other side of the street? Read this article to learn more.
Gymea Lilies - Doryanthes excelsa. Everything about the Gymea lily (Doryanthes excelsa) is larger than life. The bold foliage can reach over four metres in height and some majestic flower stems can reach over ten metres tall.
Native Hibiscus. An ever increasing interest in native hibiscus has led to the horticultural development of a number of new cultivars which rival the exotic types in beauty and flower size.
Plant description
Howea forsteriana, the Kentia palm, is a beautiful palm native to Lord Howe Island. It is valued as an indoor plant, as well as making a good garden specimen. It can tolerate low light conditions and lack of humidity. It can grow to 15 metres tall, but in a garden situation it is usually smaller, to around 5 metres.
Kentia palms like a well drained, fertile soil, and regular watering. Mulching will help to keep the soil moist as well as discouraging weeds. When young, full sun may burn the leaves, but older plants can take more sun.
If kept indoors, keep moist but don't overwater. Fertilise with half strength liquid fertiliser, or slow release fertiliser. The plant can be taken outside periodically for a spell in a shady spot, and will benefit from more watering to flush any fertilser build up in the potting mix, as long as pot does not sit in the water.
Propagation is from seed.
Further reading: Top ten native plants and
Best natives for pots and small gardens (articles written by native plant expert and horticulturalist Angus Stewart).
Additional plant information
Flowers
Flower colour: not specified
Flowering season: not specified
Plant size
Maximum height: 15 metres
Minimum height: 4 metres
Maximum width: 5 metres
Minimum width: not specified
Sunlight, frost & salt tolerance
This plant will tolerate full or partial sunlight.
Light frost tolerance.
Plant is salt tolerant.
Fauna attracting?
Not specified.
Climate
This plant species will grow in the following climates: cool, temperate, subtropical, tropical.
Soil types & conditions
Loam: dry, moist, well-drained.
Clay: well-drained.
Sand: moist, well-drained.
Pests
Scale, mealy bugs
Miscellaneous information
Native to: Australia.
Planting season: Any.
Types of fertiliser: Good general purpose liquid or slow release fertiliser.
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