Palms indoors in cold climates

Indoor Potted Palms in Rhode Island

Palms are often grown as houseplants and greenhouse specimens in northern colder climates, here, and in many places. Here are some photos of small palms growing in a greenhouse situation, or in ordinary home indoor conditions in Rhode Island. Photos are of palms in both of these situations (houseplant indoors and/or home greenhouse), and some photos may be of palms outdoors (summer) where many may wind up then (on the porch etc...). The ones outside in pots, (if pictured as such) will be brought back in when the cold weather approaches. The concentration will be a little more on the uncommon than common indoor palms I have and which are available here. Click on plant name to view, then back on your browser to return to this page. Also, see below a pic, (at the bottom) of a palm not hardy here year round, yet great outdoors for many months in a large pot.

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (2 years later indoors)

Areca vestiaria (small)

Beaucarnea recurvata (palm look-alike)

Bunch of palms indoors in the winter

Chamaedorea brachypoda

Chamaedorea deckeriana

Chamaedorea deckeriana (1 year later)

Chamaedorea deckeriana--close up of inflorescences

Chamaedorea elatior

Chamaedorea elegans

Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii

Chamaedorea glaucifolia

Chamaedorea metallica

Chamaedorea neuroclamus

Chamaedorea plumosa

Chamaedorea quezalteca

Chamaedorea radicalis

Chamaedorea seifrizii

Chamaedorea stolonifera

Chamaerops humilis (small)

Chamaerops humilis (medium)

Chamaerops humilis (larger plant)

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens

Cyrtostachys renda

Coccothrinax crinita(left)

Coccothrinax crinita (9 months later)

Coccothrinax miraguama

Copernicia macroglossa

Delonix regia (not a palm--the Royal Poinciana seedling)

Dictyosperma album var. rubrum

Johannesteijsmannia altifrons

Johannesteijsmannia altifrons (1 year later)

Latania loddigessii (red)

Licuala grandis

Licuala grandis (1 year later)

Licuala grandis (2 years later)

Licuala grandis and Licuala orbicularis in background

Licuala peltata var. sumawong

Licuala peltata var. sumawong (trunk detail)

Licuala peltata var. sumawong (1 year later)

Licuala peltata var. sumawong (2 years later)

Licuala pletata var.sumawong (2 years later--this is a big leaf!!--in greenhouse)

Licuala spinosa (in greenhouse)

Livistona chinensis

Lytocaryum weddellianum

Pelagodoxa henryana

Pelagodoxa henryana 5 months later

Pelagodoxa henryana 9 months later

Phoenix dactylifera

Phoenix dactylifera (1 year later)

Phoenix roebelenii (one trunk)

Phoenix roebelenii (multiple trunks)

Pritchardia pacifica

Pritchardia pacifica (1 year later)

Pritchardia thurstonii

Pritchardia thurstonii(1 year later)

Rhapidophyllum hystrix

Rhapidophyllum hystrix - much larger plant in 16 inch pot in RI

Sabal bermudana

Sabal bermudana (1 year later)

Sabal minor (in the ground in RI)

Sabal palmetto

Sabal texensis or S. Texana-not sure

Serenoa repens (1 year later)

Serenoa repens (2 years later)

Syagrus romanzoffiana

Syagrus romanzoffiana (1 year later)

Trachycarpus nanus

Trachycarpus nanus (1 year later)

Trachycarpus fortunei

Trachycarpus fortunei (1 1/2 years later--diff. view)

Trachycarpus fortunei--too big as a houseplant now--1/00

Trachycarpus fortunei 9/00--now in the ground in the yard

Trachycarpus takil (seedling)

Veitchia merrilli (small plant-large jpeg file size)

Veitchia merrilli (6 months later)

Verschaffeltia splendida

Verschaffeltia splendida (underside of leaf close-up)

Verschaffeltia splendida (underside of leaf close up) 6 months later

Vershaffeltia splendida (1 year later)

Vershaffeltia splendida (1 1/2 years later - leaf closeup)

Washingtonia filifera

Washingtonia robusta

Washingtonia palm by the water garden

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