Looks good.

Nice sized windmill for New Jersey. Looks like its gonna be a long term survivor! Do you protect your basjoos at all?

Yeah thats one of the healthiest windmill palms Ive ever seen. How do you protect it?

Looks great. Your basjoo's are already twice the size of mine. How long have you had the windmill?

Thanks for the comments. That windmill has been in the ground for 8 years now. It began life in that spot without any appreciable trunk (now between 3 and 4 feet worth). That wall faces south, and the adjoining wall, where the fig is, juts out some 7 feet or so, protecting everything from the west. Keys, me thinks, for their continued happiness. I fertilize it twice a year, Spring and Fall, with a palm specific slow release product, and then hit it every so often with Miracle Gro. About mid to late Dec. I cover it with a clear plastic wrapped "greenhouse", but only if the temps are due to really drop (single digits, say). Otherwise, it gets no protection at all now. First few years I had it covered every day from Dec. until Mar.
Now...the Atlantic Ocean is about a mile away. That buffers our Winters some. When others inland are getting snow, we're getting rain. This past Winter, however, we got it worse. I covered it when we got some heavy, wet snowfall. Happens whenever the storm comes up from the south as opposed to the west. It has toughened over the years, and I hope it will grow to its maturity, at least for this climate.
The bananas are cut to the ground after the first hard frost, covered in mulch and plastic to keep them warm and dry, then uncovered in early Mar. They are actually small this year compared to previous ones. Lately, I've been taking pups inside over the Winter, and giving them to friends. One, has 4 that he transplanted back when I told him to, and they are bigger than mine...the rat.

Very nice, congratulation. I'm groing Basjoo for the first time and I can't believe how fast they grow (even on the 70s we can't get out of). Next week though is supposed to be sunny and mid-80s so they really should take off.

Excellent garden trishmick! Great looking trachy. Those bananas will get going soon if we could get some consistent summer weather.

Jay