Stunning Livistona in the Living Room

多くの人がヤシを好むこともあり、トロピカルに生い茂る庭園が下田には多くあります。There are many people living in Shimoda who love palms, so you will see lot’s of lush, tropical gardens as you walk or drive around the town.
Any species of Trachycarpus are native to high mountainous areas in Asia where they experience very cold weather. Because of this, some have remarkable cold tolerance and can be grown in areas where one sees temperatures well below freezing. It is also common to see photographs of Trachycarpus plants covered in snow.
The Senegal date palm is variable in shape and form but tends to grow as clumps composed of multiple stems. These slender stems are covered with brown fiber and tend to curve away from the center of the clump in graceful arcs.
King Palms like more water than most palms, with some even thriving in poorly drained areas. In their native habitat, they can often be seen growing next to and even in creek beds. It is quite a fast grower.
Livistona decora is native to Australia’s tropical east coast. It grows on moist river banks and sandy coastal areas of central Queensland. A tall, solitary fan palm with leaves that have very pendulous segments. The fan leaves are finely divided and very droopy
Kentia Palms (as they are known in Japanese) thrive in areas that fall under the influence of Japan’s kuroshio current, a warm Pacific trade current similar to North America’s Gulf Stream. While rare in much of northern Honshu, they are commonplace in Tokyo’s more tropical Ryukyu and Bonin island chains. Here you see two species side-by-side:…