gatraffic,
Your windmill palm looks very healthy.Are all of them blooming?That one looks like it suffered no cold damage at all,and after one of the snowiest winters for metro Atlanta that I remember.Good to see a post from you again.
Randy

Only 2 out 10 are flowering, none had any winter protection as most are 4-6 years old. I did plant a couple 5 gallons last fall on a Home Depot bargain and they are also OK. Since Douglasville moved the courthouse to south of I20 I don't go past you any longer.

That is a nice looking Windmill! Are all 10 about the same age.? I live in Locust Grove Ga. and have have 2 that are about 4 & 5 years old. They went thru the winter very well. I just put a tarp over them when we had the ice storm. My local nursery is supposed to have Pindo's tomorrow. If so I will be planting one Saturday.

Your windmill palms look great.

I don't think Pindos' will survive a cold winter in the Atlanta area. Butiaman had some and I 'think' he had some issues last winter. I stick with Windmills and Needles, Bananas with no winter issues, no prep, no tarps. A few of them are 'runts' and some are over 7'.

gatraffic,
I did have some problems with the pindos I bought from HD.I found out why.I caught the vendor one weekend at my local HD that supplies them with there cold hardy palm trees.Well I got talking with her about what other type of cold hardy palms do they have.She called her boss to ask if they had what I was looking for(S.brazoria)and they don't carry them.I asked her where do there palms come from,and she told me a palm farm in Miami.Then it started to make since to me why the pindos I've been buying from HD the last two years are not as cold hardy as there supposed to be.Since they was grown from seeds in Miami,they've never really experienced cold temps.Even if a palm is cold hardy,but grown most of it's young life in a warm environment,it's not going to do as well as it would normally do when all of a sudden it's put in a environment that gets cold in winter.If your going to get a pindo from HD,I wouldn't plant it in the ground till you get it acclimated to our winters.Unless you plan to building a mini greenhouse around it.Gradually subject it to a little colder winter temps.each year till it's about a 15gal.size.Once they get that big they don't seem to have any problem with our winter temps.To me that's to much trouble.I wont buy anymore pindos,unless there grown in a more northern environment.I have two 15gallons I bought from North Carolina.They should live up to the temps. there supposed to take.I will also be trying a B.eriospatha x capitata and a B.capitata x eriospatha,to see how they do.I'm also getting a B.yatay.They will be small but I figured I can grow them in pots in our environment,bringing them indoors on our coldest nights till they get much larger,that way they will be more acclimated to our climate.If you can get one grown here or at least in a climate that has cold temps.in winter.It will do much better for you.
Good luck,Randy.

Yup, I asked the vendor at HD in Marietta and they also said all of them come from MYYAMEE.