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While traveling to many palm growing countries throughout
the world, I came across many books on Palms written by
learned and reputed authors. I studied and found that they
are quite expensive and none suited for Indian conditions.
Hence I decided to publish this book giving details of
palms that can be best grown in Indian sub-continent.
My
writing is based on my own experience and interactions
with experts of palms from around the world.
Palms are
excellent plants, commonly seen and much admired in our
landscape. They have been very less emphasized in India as
ornamental plants due to lack of awareness and higher
initial cost. But now awareness towards palms is growing
like “wild fire”. Town Planners, Landscapers and Gardeners
have realized that though expensive initially, in the long
run palms are a worthwhile investment. They enhance value
of properties, have excellent symmetry and are self
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Palms generally, are slow to grow in the
initial years; thereafter they grow quite rapidly,
maintaining uniformity throughout. They are evergreen, do
not require pruning; fertilizing is straight forward –
available water is all that is essential. They do not take
much ground space on account of their compact and fibrous root system; therefore they can be transplanted with ease
compared to trees. They are quite hardy and capable of growing almost any where in any type of soil, some types even without regular irrigation and with little maintenance.
Nearly all palms covered in this hand book are capable of growing all over Indian sub-continent. Agro climatically most of our Indian subcontinent is quite suitable for palm culture.
With the support of Indian and International experts and botanists in the field of palm’s horticulture, we hope that this publication, titled “Palms for India” that provides simple ‘small-tips’, prove to bring BIG RESULTS. We shall be grateful to have any of your valuable suggestions and feedback, which would be of immense help in our forthcoming publications. |
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