The Hardy Chinese Windmill Palm; Trachycarpus fortunei

» wisgrdnr - Do you successfully grow hardy palms, and where?

Tell Suite 101 readers about your cold-hardy palm growing successes! Where do you live, and how cold are your winter temperatures? What varieties of palms do BEST for you?

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» NJpalmguy - Re: Do you successfully grow hardy palms, and where?

Hello all. I'm a southern NJ palm fancier. I've got one palm that is my pride and joy. 6' tall and getting ready to bloom for the second year in a row. It typically gets down to 5 degrees as a minimum temperature. Winters are long and cold. This year was no exception. Besides a little damage from the weight of the snow all is well.

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» Henk12 - Re: Do you successfully grow hardy palms, and where?

In response to message posted by wisgrdnr:

I grow palms in western part of Europe (SE part of Holland in fact) and find no problems growing Trachycarpus species here. In fact, in the neighborhood there are some very nice species in gardens.
Even my Chamaerops thrives without any protection. For Phoenix species and banana however, winter protection is needed.
Snowfall in my region is only very few times in a year, and temps are mostly too high to keep the snow. But once in some years, we could have a bad winter, with temps as low as -15Celcius for 1 or 2 days... I think even Trachy would need protection then, just to be sure.
Does anyone have ideas about average growing speed of the trunk I can expect?

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