Update from my Palm

16 years ago

Hi all,

Its been awhile. The kids have been keeping me busy. I just wanted to post my Trachy on how its doing here in Long Island, NY. This year, it made it through the winter with flying colors. No issue to report.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the 4th winter. I basically through a tarp over it on the colder nights of the year, but that's about it.

My banana plants and others are doing well also!

Here is when it was planted and following the first winter. I believe it was summer of 06? I don't recall:

Here it is today. This year it has explosive growth. Already pushed out about 6 new branches:

Hope I never decide to sell my house!! loll :)

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Comments (6)

tropicalzone7
16 years ago
It looks extremely healthy. The leaves look really full. Do your protect it with anything because it looks completely unfazed by the winter!
Good luck! Thanks for posting!
-Alex
chippy
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks Alex. In the previous winters I babied it with Christmas lights and covering it, this winter I just threw a tarp over during the coldest nights.
The winter of 08, I thought it was doomed as the spring came and the center rotted out and looked miserable and the spear pulled out. I mixed some copper fungicide and some other solution and poured it in the hole and here it is today, growing like its ready for take off.
I don't fertilize as well.

Rob
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tropicalzone7
16 years ago
I put christmas lights on one of mine and on the other I put christmas lights and threw a large plastic garbage can over it. They both made it well. They seem to be tolerant palms and the good thing with windmill palms is they arent doomed when they have spear pull since with some extra care, they usually recover from it.
Looks like its really happy where you have it. In a few years its going to be a really nice, large plant!
Good luck!
-ALex
jimhardy
16 years ago
Nice!
It's grown right out of the leggy leaves from the nursery and is growing into a beautiful round shape,
your really lucky to be able to go with such minimal protection-nice job protecting it!
cocoabeachlorax
16 years ago
Where on Long Island ? I'm a transplant to Florida now, but grew up in Suffolk, Rocky Point. I can say for certain I have never seen one of those on the block ! Awesome job. I have Hosta envy too. I tried to plant some this year down here but apparently they should have been labelled "snail food" or some other such creature, they were all swiftly nibbled down to nothing.
User
16 years ago
Hardier palms only just started showing up in NYC/NJ Metro Area nurseries within the last year or so. They are still considered exotic because most people can't believe it's possible. Last winter I was shoveling the walkway from a two foot storm. My neighbor came over and couldn't believe the four foot Trachycarpus palms in the front yard (I planted mine about three years ago). PS., Believe it or not, palms I can grow, HOSTA I can't. Why? Hosta are known as 'deer food', deer never touch any palms.