BEST SELLING E-BOOK ON PALM IN INDIA

While traveling various palm-growing countries throughout the world, I came across many books on Palms written by learned and reputed authors. I studied them and found that they were pretty expensive and none suited to Indian conditions. Hence, I decided to publish this book giving details of palms that can be best grown in the Indian sub-continent. My writing is based on my own experience and interactions with palm experts from all over the world. Palms are excellent plants, commonly seen and much admired in our landscape. They have been very less promoted in India as ornamental plants due to lack of awareness and higher initial cost. But now, awareness towards palms is growing like wildfire. Town Planners, Landscapers, and Gardeners have realized that though expensive initially, palms are worthy of investment in the long run. They enhance the value of properties, have excellent symmetry, and are self-maintaining. Generally, palms grow slowly in the initial years, and after that, they grow pretty rapidly and uniformly. They are evergreen, do not require pruning; fertilizing is straightforward - available water is all that is needed. 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 other trees. They are pretty hardy and capable of growing almost anywhere in any soil. Some types of them thrive well even without regular irrigation and with little maintenance. Nearly all the palms covered in this handbook can be grown all over the Indian sub-continent. Agro climatically, most of our Indian subcontinent is quite suitable for palm culture.