Show us a pic please 😀 It sounds like a great palm, but how well does it do at -4f? Is that with out protection of any kind? I would love to hear more about it 😀

For Pictures of T. fortunei cv “ tieshanâ€, check my album
http://photo.163.com/openalbum.php?username=flowerinquiry&_dir=/17471674

What is the cost of a seedling(s) shipped to the USA? I could not read the website and I did not want to download the english program.
Thanks 😀

Hi Garry. Could you give me some info of where T.cv tieshan grows naturally in china. I have tried to find out by doing some research on it. Or is it a hybrid of other Trachycarpus species. I noticed Bejing is a zone 7 bordering on zone 6 ,so I`m quite interested to find out more about it before purchasing some of them for my zone 6.
Thanks 🙂

Good questions 😉

Hey everyone
Sorry for the delayed reply. I have got back from my my 7-day National Day Holiday. Normanlly the freight for 20 container range from USD 3500-5000 depending on the destinations.One 20 ft container could hold 230 trachycarpus fortunei.As for T. fortunei cv “ tieshan†which is stronger that the former, it can hold 200 of average 2m trunk height. For 1 meter height, it reaches 500-600 roughly.
T. fortunei cv “ tieshan†was a new cultivation varigated species, first experimented in Jiangsu (zone 7) over decades ago and proved to bear the cold temperature 5F (-15C)and the domestication in Beijing proves that they are able to stand -4F (-20C minimum) and so some people even call them Beijing Palm as this is the cold hardiest palm that are growing north Yellow River in China. Right now Our palms are growing in the branch farm located in Jiangsu (-15C) .After 15 years cultivation, some palm even grow to 4 m trunk height. But they have distinct features from T. fortunei.
Special Feature of Beijing Palm ( T. fortunei cv “ tieshan†)
1. shorter petioles than T.fortunei
2. stronger trunk than T.fortunei ( 10-25cm )
3. better cold hardiness than T.fortunei
4. powder-like wax or fuzza when young
5. thicker fiber air layer

Check the temperature in Beijing
http://www.chinahighlights.com/beijing/theclimate&temperature.htm

All I need now is $5000.00 😯 If I had the cash I would get them 8) ,but that would be a hard sell 🙁 $250.00 apiece at cost 😕 Would be worth it to some people.

Aaron I agree we are all ,or most of us are just cold hardy plant enthusiasts without a large nursery budget . I for one would like to try these palms because of zone 6 denial . I think if we could get some of these that could handle -20c -5 f they would take off .Garry`s T. tieshan and make a whole lot of us so much more happy about trying palms in our zones. So how bout it Garry you have it in your wisdom to start a palm revolution in our zones? Do you have any way of shipping these palms besides a shipping container? Seeds?
Cheers, John 😀

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If I win the lottery. Seriousley they sound like a great palm. You should try getting hold of Casino Tropicals in Surrey, B.C. , Canada. Those guys are always importing large size hardy palms in mass quantities. Maybe the owner would scoop some of those. He had hoards of large Butias, Chamaerops and Needle Palms the last time I was there. He imports mature Phoenix, Sabal palmetto and more. I've also seen mature Serenoa repens 'Silver Form' tehre. His larest Needle palms were approx. $1,000, they were awesome. The S.palmetto had at least 10'ft of trunk. His Sabal minors were also beauties. Cheers, Banana Joe

They look like a great palm. 😀 I would love to have a few :D, but my funds are low right now.

Hey Joe, do have a pic of the $1,000 needle palm ❓

Joe,
I called casino and they wanted $400.00 for a sabal minor. Is this a good deal?
Also how much did they wat for their palmettos?
Did they have different sizes?
In your opinion is sabal minor and sabal palmetto hardy. I am in one of Vancouver's best microclimates.

Wes, I have one of those S.minor from Casino, but I managed to get a beter deal than that. I planted it in mid. May and it really has nice blue clooured fronds. It also has been flowering since I planted it. It has approx. 10 flower spikes in all. I'm not worried about S. minor at all, because I have others in the ground that I planted long before that one. As far as I'm concerned S.palmetto should be fool proof here as well. The seedlings I planted in 1993 are still there and have never been affected by cold temps. Drop me an e-mail and I'll show you a mature S.minor on our island planted nearly a decade ago, and a good size palmetto planted at the same time. I took pics. of them last week. The S.minor was coming into bloom .Cheers, Joe bananajoe@saltspring.com

Ok guys with a little wheelin and dealing I will have some 2 meter/ 6 foot of trunk Tesan for sale. I will have them in Feb. I wanted to give you enough notice so if you want them you can have the money ready. These are coming straight from China. If you are interested email me and I will put you on a list. leave me your address and phone number and I will call you. These will be almost totaly bare root and the leaves will be cut back so the dont dry out and survive the trip. Shipping will be a lil extra. The cost is $200 bucks for 6ft and if you get more than 1 ( for producing seeds ) they will be $150 each.
If you have and regular fortunei of the same size, I may trade for a few. Heres how it will look when you get it.