My Hardy palms and bananas – Page 3 – Cold Hardy Palms – PalmsNorth.com

ivonekitov · 2013-06-12T06:23:12Z

Hi again! My name is Ivo, I'm from south-eastern part of Europe, Bulgaria. My place is in the most continental part of Balkans, with sometime cool winters(1 to 3 weeks) and usually very dry and hot summers :) Zone is 7a, based on a last 12-13 year winter minimums (approx -14C/7F), but once a few years with big variations, from -6C/21F(2007) to -23/-9F(2012), so in combination with hot, sunny and - in last decade- usually long summers, makes my place ideal as "frontline" or "edge" of this...palm experiments. Anyway, I'm still newbie in this, planting palms and some other exotics from 3-4 years only, greater part of them -from 1 or 2 years.Here are some photos of the part of my palm collection in May: Ensete Maurelii on May, 21sdays laterFilifera.third winter-veteran :) (active protection, this winter survived excellentJubaeaButia(survived, but as expected, not so well - reason: not time to establish till winterN.(no protectionOlives(not veterans yet, planted in February-March this spring:Brahea Armata(planted May)Here are some more photos, if interestedNew photos - this weekendThis is my oldest Trachy (25-30 cm stem, 6 or 7-y old), survived with no protection last(-9F, -23 C), but snow covered(naturally, I didn't help him with that! ;) , and this, much milder, 10F(-12 C)with particular damages.edit:sorry, edited some mistakes and put too big photos in links, except few normal-sized.

ivonekitov

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Some of palms in OG in the beginning of the season:

Brahea Armata

Jubaea

My bigger one Trachy, 50 cm stem(a bit less than 2 ft), 3 winters in OG, no protection:

One of little ones Trachys, first winter, no protection:

Butia(Pindo), no protection, some dammages:

W. Robusta, 3 weeks active protection(Jan.25 do Feb. 15th), rest of the winter - passive prot.:

and the little Cerifera, no protection, but to the sothern wall of the house there:

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Posted : 12/03/2014 5:53 am

Zabola

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everything looks good and green.

Max, Beograd

Posted : 12/03/2014 6:56 am

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It's disputable about the Butia arrow/spare. Seems a bit of yellowish but...we shall see in couple of weeks...

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Posted : 12/03/2014 9:02 am

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Incredible success!
But not surprising with only 3 weeks of winter.

Really impressed that Brahea (it's a beauty), Washy and Jubaea didn't mind wet snow in the spear. 😯

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Posted : 12/03/2014 11:07 am

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Looking good, should see some good growth after having such a great winter.

Posted : 12/03/2014 7:54 pm

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I thought 1 or two years was not here...sorry, they became 3 🙂
Some updates from my garden from this grow season:

Brugmanzia:

Washy, maybe Robusta. SURELY survived -11 C/12 F in 2014/15

Jubaea/i have 5 in OG, 3 in good and very good condition, 2 in not so good and few dozens of little 3-winter juvenile Jubaeas in OG.
Jubaea #3 🙂

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And this is off topic:

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Posted : 22/12/2016 4:49 am

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Hi Ivon. Very nice photos. Good to see how well they have done over the last 3 years. Do you have photos of your winter protection over them and what you use for heating? Where did you get the Jubea`s from? They are very rare to find here and expensive!

John

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Posted : 29/12/2016 3:18 am