Indoor palm care guides, starting with the areca palm: light in real numbers, palm-specific feeding, reading yellow fronds, pests, pet safety and propagation, based on university extension research.
Areca palm yellow leaves usually come down to one of five things: an old frond dying naturally, a nutrient shortage, roots sitting in wet or worn-out soil, too much sun, or spider mites. The fastest way to tell them apart is to look at where the yellow starts. Yellow on the oldest, lowest fronds points … Read more
The areca palm you bought is probably not one plant. Growers sow its seed thickly, dozens of seeds to a pot, and sell the seedlings together as a single bushy specimen. That one fact explains most of what goes wrong with it at home: the crowding, the thinning after a year or two, the yellow … Read more