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THE LONG STAY PROGRAM
Our "Long Stay Program" is designed to give our customers a creative, sustainable solution to keeping their palms and tropicals happy and healthy year after year. The principle behind this program is to hold any products that are compromised for any reason back for the season in our professional care to allow them a chance to grow back and recover under controlled conditions. Ultimately, this creative solution greatly increases the lifespan and overwintering potential of your palms/ tropicals while keeping them looking tip top and ready for the party at any time!
why this program is beneficial for your palm trees
There are so many factors that affect the overall wellbeing and health of your tropicals growing in New England. Unseasonably cold weather, excessive rain, pest issues and transportation/ acclimation shock are some of the most common factors that are out of our control. These conditions can drastically compromise your tropicals. This is why it is important to self-educate or work with a trusted professional to learn how to limit exposure, when possible, along with identifying and remediating these issues right away.
When tropicals in New England are exposed to these unfavorable conditions, it can cause them to become incredibly susceptible to a wide variety of both pest and systemic issues. Since they are so far from the Planting zone they thrive in, they often do not get a chance to recover from damage sustained throughout our short, but dynamic, “Palm Tree Season” in New England. It can sometimes take a full year growing in optimum conditions and a controlled environment, along with a certain level of expertise, to get your products thriving again.
Often, we notice certain products that have been purchased or overwintered elsewhere show signs of what we call, "Dying a Slow Death". This is when palm trees and tropicals are simply kept alive throughout the winter, and instead of identifying/ remediation any issues present, they are simply kept alive. To the untrained eye, these products may not look like they are as sick as they are and will show signs of growth. However, this is just prolonging the inevitable, and they really are just dying a slow death. This is not good practice for many reasons. From a sustainability point of view, it is only one step better than killing your trees at the end of the season. It is a risky practice because these sick trees can contaminate and compromise healthy trees in transport or when installing at your house in close vicinity of where the sick compromised trees were and where your new products will be. Over the years, we have come up with a great solution to help limit the effects and avoid our products being at total loss.
