I'm planting some Windmills this year here in KY...curious how you protected it, if at all ...I know NJ had a LOT of snow this year...Sorry about your Blueberry Bushes I will hope for the best for you ;)

Hi Trish

My yard took a beating too, so many shrubs with broken limbs, yuccas crushed, just a bit of the damage...my palms did great, only because they were covered with home made greenhouses...but this spring will take a lot of time, money, and new shrubs, trees and plants to correct the damage.

Good luck

MIke

There are a variety of ways to protect windmills. Survey this forum for prior posts and you will even find step by step pics. Most involve building some sort of enclosure. When my palm went in the ground over 10 yrs. ago, I made a frame of 2 x 2 lumber wrapped in clear plastic. This was accompanied by a heat source of some kind. Most people seem to use strings of Christmas lights, lamps, etc. I probably built 4 diferent "greenhouses" as my windmill grew. Now that it's matured some and acclimatized, I don't protect it at all. We are very close to the ocean, so that little bit of marine effect keeps temps slightly warmer in the Winter and slightly cooler in the Summer. Has helped mine grow very well. We've just been getting hammered with snow in recent yrs. which is unusual.

Hi Trish:
yeah I have built several greenhouses over the years, because every summer the windmills get bigger...i even have new fronds coming in during the winter, which is great. I dont put a heat source in there, just let the sun warm up the greenhouse. I never use soft plastic, only the hard clear plastic, which givess them sun and warmth.

A local paper did an article last year about my palms, which was nice and helped others see that you can grow palms here just have to properly protect them.

well lets just hope for an early spring and see what happens.

Mike