I think mine's maybe 4 years old, damir.

Barb

PS--Cameron is going to post some de-lidding pictures in his Germination post.
So that we know which end of which seed to de-lid.
Trachies/chamaerops are somewhere near the middle (I found out), so we will need any successful de-lidding pictures added to his post.

Thanks for the great pics Damir...I was in Zagreb once, loved it,...Never to the coast!

hi sidpook. zagreb is nice, i lived there for 5 years. you should go to coast next time you visit us.
rgds 😀

I definitely will. I have been to the Italian side of the adriatic only. And actually the time I was in Zagreb it was still the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Quite different from now I suppose.

big difference now, then in former yugoslavia. in year or 2 we'll be member of EU.

my CIDP survived it's first winter in the ground in zone 7a.

one trachy fortunei defoliated (north exposure) other one (south exposure) just minor damage. place in the garden is very important, i would say.

also i planted one magnolia grandiflora , two days ago.

Amazing the trachy defoliated, and the cidp made it with leaves. 😯

I second what Aaron said.

Would have expected the opposite results.
Barb

Good job, Damir! What was your lowest temp this winter?

lowest temp was -13 C. lot of days around -10C, and few weeks temp was not above 0C. here is problem in europe that we have wet winers. if the palm roots are dry in winter than it can survive much lower temps than it says for every specie. also long period of time temps do not rise above zero C.
from mine experience , very important is that center of the palm does not get wet in winter,so you will not have spear pulling in spring. my cidp was in some kind of cage,made from old windows with double glasses. also i put nylon at the ground inside the cage so there is no evaporation from the ground. then i wrapped the palm in many lays of fabrics. on that i put one smaller wood box and all of that was inside the glass box made of windows.
trachy wasnt covered. so now i had spear pulled from both of them. i washed it, the hole inside the palm and water it with mix of water and fungicide, antracol,so it recovers. this i did and last year and it recovers. here are some pics what i did.

i open the cage few times in winter when temps were in +. dark inside is not the problem for palms, but lack of the air is so fungus showed up.

i like this pic. 2 weeks ago. now temps are 20C,morning 5 to 10C. spring is finally here! 😀

one rhapy hystrix is comig out. just one, but 😀

cameron, did you recive seeds i sent you?

Hi Damir,

Great pics! That's good to see that the needle palm is germinating for you! Unfortunately, the seeds never arrived.

Damir,
great photos and description, thanks.

also i put nylon at the ground inside the cage so there is no evaporation from the ground

I like that idea.

Congrats on the Hystrix germination!

I think Trachies need to be near a building for protection.
Mine didn't do well here even in summer when exposed to hot weather and drying winds.
Does much better now 4 feet from the East wall of house.

Good luck with fungicide results.
Barb

nice protection of the Phoenix!