Golden cane palm is a good choice if you want a plant that stands out and grows well. Golden cane palms are tough, look nice, and can be great indoor plants to give your home or office a modern feel. If you want to buy this one from a plant nursery to enhance your home gardening, make sure you know how to grow them. Keep reading to know more about this plant in detail.
How Does the Golden Cane Palm Look?
The Golden cane palm, or Dypsis lutescens, is a beautiful, hardy tropical palm that is often called by that name. It has many golden-yellow stems, and each fine leaf looks like a feather.
This palm tree can grow up to 6–8 m tall and 2–2.5 m wide when planted outside. If you keep it inside a pot, it will grow much more minor.
How to Grow a Golden Cane Palm?
Pick a Sunny Place
Golden cane palms need many suns to grow well, but they can also do well in full sun, part shade, or even full shade. For places with hot, dry summers, a spot with some shade will help keep the leaves from getting burned.
The yellow stems of the golden cane palm will stand out in a bright, sunny spot, contrasting with the bright green leaves.
The soil will also dry out faster in a sunny spot, which can help prevent root rot. This plant doesn’t like having its roots stay wet, so putting them in a sunny place will help the water get out faster.
Get Rid of Any Old Mulch
Before you plant something outside, you should get rid of any old mulch in the area. With a rake, it’s easy to pull back any old bark chips, rotting leaves, or pine needle mulch sitting on top of the soil. This will make digging through the soil improvers easier without accidentally mixing the mulch into the soil.
When you dig mulch into the soil, the nitrogen in the soil will be taken up by the palm for a short time. This will slow the palm’s growth. The mulch can also make the soil lose water too quickly, which can cause the water to flow away from the roots.
Make the Soil Better
Before you put your golden cane palm outside, it’s important to improve the soil. Planting your palm in the ground or a raised garden bed will grow much better if you add nutrients and organic matter.
Your palm will get off to a great start if you add a bag of compost or some you made yourself. This will enhance the balance of bacteria in the soil, help the drain water evenly, and make worms more likely to live there.
Adding organic matter like compost also improves the flow of oxygen, which lets the roots “breathe” and grow to strengthen the plant.
Give It Space
When you put a new golden cane palm in the ground outside, you should think about how big you want it to get. These palms can grow up to 20 feet tall and have a lot of stems, or they can be kept small and trimmed to look like a hedge.
They grow many stems, like bamboo, but can be cut back to two or three to look like a traditional tropical palm.
Are Golden Cane Palms Able to Grow Outside?
In tropical and subtropical areas, golden cane palms grow well outside. If your summers are hot and humid and you get a lot of rain, they can give your yard a tropical feel. Everyone loves how the yellow stems add a bright splash of colour to my yard’s green shrubs.
Golden cane palms are tough, but with a little care, they can do well in your garden after buying them from a plant nursery.
Happy planting.
