Ferns and Palms

Bamboo Palm is a beautiful, evergreen, multi-stemmed palm with feathery, arching leaves that creates stunning tropical displays both indoors and outdoors. This popular houseplant adds instant tropical elegance to living rooms, office reception areas, patios, and shaded garden spaces while serving as an excellent natural air purifier. The graceful, clumping growth habit and golden-yellow stems make it perfect for creating privacy screens or focal points in semi-shaded areas. Plant 2-3m apart for screening or use as specimen trees in containers and garden beds. Feed monthly during growing season with a balanced palm fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. The Bamboo Palm benefits from occasional misting to increase humidity, especially when grown indoors. Learn how to plant a tree the right way for successful palm establishment, or discover how to choose the perfect tree for your garden with tropical palms like Bamboo Palm.

Cyathea Australis is an exotic-looking, medium to large tree fern from Australia that creates stunning tropical displays with its single-stemmed trunk and umbrella-like crown of large, magnificent fronds. This spectacular fern is ideal for large shady areas and looks magnificent in containers, making it perfect for creating dramatic focal points in courtyards, patios, and shaded garden spaces. The young fern leaves are beautifully rolled up and fascinating to watch as they slowly unfurl into full fronds. Plant 3-4m apart for grove plantings or use as specimen trees in shaded garden beds and large containers. Feed monthly during growing season with a balanced fern fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. Keep soil consistently moist and ensure good drainage. Learn how to plant a tree the right way for successful tree fern establishment, or discover how to choose the perfect tree for your garden with exotic specimens like Australian Tree Fern.

This highly popular indoor plant showcases delicate foliage on slender, dark stems. To care for it indoors, place it in a location with indirect light, maintain consistent moisture, and consider occasional misting to provide the humidity it loves. Despite its delicate appearance, it can also thrive outdoors when placed in shaded or partially shaded areas in your garden. When planting it outdoors, ensure well-drained soil and protection from direct sunlight.

Elegant evergreen plant for Cape Town gardens or indoors. Cycas revoluta adds structure and texture with its distinctive palm-like fronds. Prefers bright, indirect light indoors or partial shade outdoors. Water when soil surface feels dry - avoid overwatering as this can cause root rot. Feed monthly during growing season with balanced fertilizer. Remove only completely brown fronds by cutting close to trunk. Growth is naturally slow, so be patient. Great in pots or planted in beds for dramatic architectural impact.

An elegant and decorative palm, ideal for pool areas and small gardens. A slender medium-sized palm with a single stem that is topped with a crown of leaves that can each be up to 2.5 m long. Attractive when planted  along a driveway. Flowers in summer followed by red berry fruit. Fabulous in pots.

This evergreen, structural plant forms a bulbous trunk-like stem, resembling an elephants foot. The swollen base stores water and makes this an ideal waterwise option.  It's drought tolerant and hardy. Can be grown as an indoor plant but will require bright light. Will grow slower in a container than in the ground. Use potting soil that drains well. Waterwise, tough and ideal for a patio. 

Cocus Palm is a majestic evergreen palm that's popular for creating impressive height along driveways, in parks, commercial landscapes, and home gardens where tropical elegance is desired. This stunning palm features gracefully arching feathery fronds that create perfect tropical ambiance and natural screening. The Queen Palm produces drooping cream flowers in summer followed by decorative orange dates in winter, adding seasonal interest to your landscape. Plant 4-5m apart for avenue plantings or use as specimen trees in garden beds and courtyards. Feed quarterly during growing season with a specialized palm fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. For young palms, provide support with tree stakes and secure with tree ties until well established. Apply pine mulch around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds. Keep grass and weed-eaters away from the trunk to prevent decay and damage. Learn how to plant a tree the right way for successful palm establishment, or discover how to choose the perfect tree for your garden with tropical palms like Queen Palm.

Pygmy Date Palm (Phoenix Roebelenii) is an elegant evergreen miniature date palm that creates a tropical atmosphere with its dense crown of delicate, arching fronds that sway gracefully in the breeze. Perfect for adding exotic appeal to patios, courtyards, or as an indoor statement plant in bright, indirect light.

Why You'll Love It:
• Perfect for adding exotic appeal to patios and courtyards
• Excellent as an indoor statement plant in bright, indirect light
• Works beautifully individually in large containers
• Can be grouped with other palms for lush tropical display
• Compact size ideal for smaller spaces
• Low maintenance once established
• Year-round visual interest

Planting & Care:
Plant 2-3m apart when grouping multiple palms to allow proper air circulation and showcase each palm's natural form. Thrives in sun to semi-shade outdoors or bright indirect light indoors with well-drained soil. Feed monthly during growing season with a balanced palm fertilizer to maintain healthy frond development and rich green color, reducing feeding frequency for indoor specimens.

A striking evergreen bamboo, with tall, upright, polished black canes that arch slightly at the top. The canes start off as green, then turn brown-black before turning black. Creates a stunning feature plant or privacy fence. Award of Garden Merit from Royal Horticultural Society for its outstanding qualities. 

The exotic Windmill Palm is extremely hardy and tolerant. It will grow pretty well anywhere, but to keep it looking in tip-top shape try to plant it in moist, but well-drained soil in good sun or semi-shade and, most importantly, out of the wind.

A tall and elegant fern with lush green fronds, making a huge umbrella crown.
Fronds are covered in whiskery fawn and brown scales. Remove dead fronds.
This tree does best in a shaded spot in deep, moist and well-drained loams. Larger than most tree ferns. When grown indoors ensure that it has a light and airy room. 

With its striking, architectural form, the Triangle Palm is a true statement plant. Its unique fronds fan out in three elegant rows, forming a perfect triangle at the base.

Slow-growing and low-maintenance, it's ideal for adding a tropical touch to gardens or large containers. Prefers full sun and well-drained soil. A must-have for collectors and design-conscious gardeners.

A small multi-stemmed palm with fan shaped leaves. This palm is ideal for small-medium gardens or large containers. Remove suckers to encourage a single trunk. One of the hardiest palms that can survive extreme cold and heat.

Provides an exotic focal point. 

Butia capitata, also known as the Jelly Palm, is a stunning, low-maintenance palm that brings tropical flair to any garden. Its striking blue-green fronds create a dramatic focal point, while its small, sweet-tasting orange fruit adds an exotic touch. Ideal for sun-soaked gardens or patios, the Jelly Palm thrives in well-drained soil, offering both beauty and a unique fruiting feature. Perfect for creating a relaxed, tropical atmosphere in your landscape.