The Zimbabwean Gardener Issue 6 Spring 2013 | Page 8

Palms in Zimbabwe

Create your bit of

By Clare Hingeston

P
ARADISE WITH P
ALMS
Have you
considered
growing palms
in your garden?
Here are four
valid reasons
why they are
winners in
landscape design.
Perfect growth symmetry
Palms have perfect growth symmetry.
It is hard to rival the beauty of a mature
Msasa tree with its exquisite twisting
branches, but there are places where
palms are the perfect choice, as their
shape and growth is symmetrical.
For example, if you a ɔ