Ho Ho Ho Windmill sporting it's Xmas light

17 years ago

Just thought a would post a picture of my Windmill, I know people may get sick of looking at it. I put it's Xmas light on it not so much for Xmas but just for a little bit of extra heat.

This is it's second winter without any protection other than these xmas nights. Not sure if they even help but it makes me feel better.

Here it is when it was a small Palm, I think this picture is it's second year in the ground, however it was protected then, kind of nice to see growth rate.

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.

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katrina1
17 years ago
Very nice looking palm. it encourages me to see how healthy your Windmill palm is even though you only used christmas lights on it over the last winter and now again this late fall.

I have some windmill palm seeds trying to germinate on top of my fridge. They have been covered in a moist medium covering the bottom a quart sized freezer bag. It has been about 4 weeks since I first put them there. Once some of these do sprout I hope I can manage to grow them large enough to plant outside and then take care of them well enough for in the following years for them to end up looking as nice as the one in your photos

How many years have past from the time the bottom photo was taken until you took the top photo?
topher2006
17 years ago
Looking good man that thing is growing like a weed !
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planterjake
17 years ago
Looks great! What year is the second photo?

Jake
jimhardy
17 years ago
I don't think the lights do anything but they do look pretty!That is an awesome palm!Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
islandbreeze
17 years ago
Lovethosepalms- your palm amazes me! I can't believe the growth rate, and I'm really impressed that you don't give it any protection in Kentucky! What city are you in? What kind of soil is that palm planted in? Does your ground freeze?
lovethosepalms
Original Author
17 years ago
As you can tell I don't visit here as much as I use to, but I will try to answer your questions.

Island I did nothing special when I planted it I only added add some potting soil when I dug the hole, and really not a lot of potting soil. Yes the ground does freeze here to give an example I think water lines must be installed three feet below ground so that should give you some idea of how far the ground freezes.

Kat, I think it has been three years from the second picture to the first. I am kind of loosing track of time with it. I really need to go through my digital camera and get the dates off the pictures I have saved most of them I think.

It has been colder than normal this late fall for some reason, however I think it going to be in the 60's tomorrow so that will make the palm happy.

I have one Windmill that I have grown from a seeding and now it is about a five gallon size and I am going to plant it in the front yard,in the spring which is not really good spot because the house will shade it early in the morning which I think help the plant in the picture to help it warm up a little with the first morning light.