windmill palm tree (freeze, plant, natural, root)

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by Moth

Nice!

Are you going to protect the Needle Palm at all this winter? I planted two over the summer and frost time approaches.

What zone are you in? If you are in 5B or higher, they should be fine without protection. I am on the 7a/6b zone border.

[Moth]

Originally Posted by Tennesseestorm

What zone are you in? If you are in 5B or higher, they should be fine without protection. I am on the 7a/6b zone border.

Thanks. I am either in 7A or 7B. I will just give them a good layer of mulsch and some leaves.

And my Windmills always have a few brown fonds like yours. Its no biggie.

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by Moth

Thanks. I am either in 7A or 7B. I will just give them a good layer of mulsch and some leaves.

And my Windmills always have a few brown fonds like yours. Its no biggie.

Oh yeah, you will be fine then!

[mdawg]

so after looking at a lot of pictures of chinese fan palms, and chinese windmill palms, i was wrong and i have a chinese FAN palm, i dont know what to do now since they are all planted outside and i was planning on protecting them and leaving them out all winter. do you think they still might survive?

[Moth]

Originally Posted by mdawg

so after looking at a lot of pictures of chinese fan palms, and chinese windmill palms, i was wrong and i have a chinese FAN palm, i dont know what to do now since they are all planted outside and i was planning on protecting them and leaving them out all winter. do you think they still might survive?

If you protect them as I and others described, they should have no problem surviving. Rule of thumb is for at least the first 2 winters. If you are worried because they are less hardy than others, protect them for 5 winters and then turn them loose.

[mdawg]

chinese fan palms are less hardy then chinese windmill palms right?

[Moth]

I do not know offhand. Either should receive at least 2 years of winter protection. Play it safe and do 5 years worth and thereafter it will be a nonissue.

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by mdawg

chinese fan palms are less hardy then chinese windmill palms right?

Yes... its my understanding that the fan palms are not very hardy. The Windmill palms are. Mine has endured temperatures in the lower 10s before without any protection and I have had it for 4 years now.

I had a Washingtonia Robusta as well. Not hardy at all. When the temperature dropped to the upper teens one night (even with protection), it roasted it.

[mdawg]

well crap.

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by mdawg

well crap.

Well do not despair yet.... give them a fighting chance.

I have heard there are different species... some hardier than others and you may be in a microclimate.