Life Amid the Palms

December 2024 - Welcome!

Your Home Becomes a Festive Oasis
With This Tropical Holiday Plant

Get creative with your home's interior holiday display!

My eyes gleamed! I walked into a friend's home in December, spotting a decorated palm! That was years ago, and it's only in the last few years I've been focusing on it. 

How?

By letting creativity explode the uses for a Christmas Palm (Adonidia merrillii). Which can bring a touch of a Tropical Paradise to your indoor holiday decor. The Christmas Palm is more than just a festive name. Unlike traditional live Christmas trees, this palm doesn't shed needles!

Ideal if you want a unique twist on seasonal greenery, even if you're not into Christmas - for whatever reason.

See how a Christmas Palm indoors hits that uplifting feeling, just as the holiday spirit brightens any environment. It blends flawlessly with your Traditional Vibrant Decorations. Becoming the perfect living centerpiece for your holiday gatherings.

Why Is It Called the Christmas Palm?

Think of the Christmas Holiday's traditional colors of red and green.

It Grows Well Outdoors
But is Excellent for Potting & Bringing Indoors!

This palm, so Suited to the Indoors, has a green, Wonderful Crownshaft below the crown. Early in its life, The Inflorescence Appears, tilting upward from just below that crownshaft.

Soon filling with white flowers.

Christmas Palm Flowers Working on Developing Fruit

But then comes its brilliant performance: bright red fruits clustering like grapes on the vine.

Its beauty shines with its red to green contrast. As the arching pendent fronds swing down to intermingle with the red fruit. It can evoke feelings of warmth and celebration.

Red Fruit Beginning to Form - Vividly Contrasting With Green Fronds & Crownshaft

Newest leaflets produce hanging threads called reins, adding to the merrymaking. Capturing the essence of the holiday spirit.

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Elevate Your Christmas Decor:
Using the Magic of This Indoor Palm

Get creative with your Christmas palm display.

• Wrap its container in a fluffy snow blanket. To bring that wintertime sparkle indoors.
• Place a string of colorful LED lights (incandescent lights get too hot for close contact) through its fronds for a magical glow.
• Or hang small, lightweight ornaments from its fronds for a merry touch.

Love a coastal-inspired holiday theme?

• Pair your palm with seashell ornaments.
• Or scatter small shells, sea glass, and small polished stones on the cottony, fake snow blanket around the container.

Consider Gifting a Christmas palm to any plant enthusiasts you know. Maybe those hard-to-buy-for people on your list, who love indoor plants. It's a thoughtful, living present for continued spirit of the season.

Caring for a Christmas Palm After Holiday Decor Wanes

Like a present that keeps on giving, the Christmas Palm gives joy long after the holidays.

Christmas Palm Maintenance is surprisingly simple.

• Place it in an airy bright spot with indirect sunlight. Just as in its native Philippine Islands, imitate its natural forest habitat.
• Water It Regularly, letting the top couple of inches dry out in between.
• Organic potting soil and a bit of appropriate Palm Fertilizer will help it flourish.

Whether you celebrate this holiday, or not - indoors, the Christmas palm becomes more than just decor. Its display of red fruit amidst its Stunning Fronds can be a living reminder of nature's beauty for any holiday or celebration.

P.S. Watch for our upcoming holiday gift, to those who get Life Amid the Palms - Shortly before celebrating the incoming of 2025!

Til Next Time,

Karen & Bill of Mission: Palm Trees

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