POM Bottle

[Mike Evans]

[Mike Evans]

Ooops,  I mean this POM Bottle.  Victim of 2010 freeze.

[JASON M]

I saw a bottle palm with the same sort of cinch at the FL Botanical Gardens in Largo today. I was wondering what would have caused it!

[Stevetoad]

shes got a nice waist though

[NickJames]

These must be super sensitive. Mine is already burned from the drive up from Melbourne!? Unless this is from 58 degrees last night LOL

[Rickybobby]

1 hour ago, NickJames said:

These must be super sensitive. Mine is already burned from the drive up from Melbourne!? Unless this is from 58 degrees last night LOL

Sunburn?  And that bottle looks awesome. 

[NickJames]

1 hour ago, Rickybobby said:

Sunburn?  And that bottle looks awesome. 

 

[Reeverse]

Bottles are very cold sensitive and slow to recover in Volusia county. That looks like wind burn from the drive maybe. All the Hyophorbe are sun grown from homestead 

[akamu]

Amazing how well the bottle grew through this an kept trunking along.

5 hours ago, Stevetoad said:

shes got a nice waist though

She's got an hourglass figure like marylin monroe very voluptuous. 

[Stevetoad]

[jimmyt]

@Stevetoad     Ha!  Ha!  Good one.       Take that sexy POM to the beach!

[GottmitAlex]

I think bottle palms are overestimated by many to be cold hardy.   

I am of the opinion if one can grow a bottle palm, one can grow a coconut. 

 

 

[Merlyn]

My bottles and spindles all went through this mild winter really well, about the same as my two HD dwarf coconuts.  A little spotting, a little frond browning and yellowing, and the older leaves died faster than normal.  The spindles definitely look nicer right now than the bottles, even when planted in nearly identical spots.

Fortunately (or unfortunately?) none of them look like Marilyn Monroe yet!