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Hey everyone:
I had planted a windmill in Edmonton in my backyard last year and left it with no protection all winter. All of the leaves browned off as you would expect them to, but as I checked the inside of the crown today, it seems like a new fan is pushing out. I may be crazy but its green colored. I'll keep everyone updated. If so this would probably be the coldest any windmill palm have ever survived. -35c this winter!! and many days of -20. I bought a yucca filamentosa the other day also and its flowering and has a nice little trunk forming on it! I'll post pictures tonight of the yucca and than the palm if it pushes out anymore.
Posted : 21/06/2010 3:16 pm
😯 😯 😯
That's kinda crazy, hats off to you! Any pics of it? I guess you had some snow in Edmonton which might have helped?
Regards,
Yuri
Posted : 21/06/2010 3:30 pm
Impressive. Imagine if you protected it. 😉
Posted : 21/06/2010 3:33 pm
You have to post some pics of this trachy!
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Posted : 21/06/2010 5:17 pm
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I will post them if the fan comes out any further. Right now its very small and I want to make sure its 100% alive, but it isn't pulling out so I'm assuming its still good. It was covered by about 1-6 inches of snow from December to March.
Posted : 21/06/2010 6:26 pm
😮 Nate, this would indeed be remarkable! The skeptic in me says impossible, but I'd love to be proven wrong!
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Posted : 21/06/2010 7:13 pm
What size had this palm before getting some damages?
Posted : 22/06/2010 7:19 am
Also interested in the size of this palm,the snow would have protected it from the deep cold.
I left a couple small ones out with a cover over them,it did not keep them warm at all,
they both saw -12f and months of below freezing weather.
One has died but the other is growing,very slooooooooooooowly.
This pic is a few months old-
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Posted : 22/06/2010 11:22 am
Nate, I'll wait for your update with interest.
Imagine! A -35C Trachy...wow.
That's one for the record books!
Pls keep us posted.
I hope your frond looks like Jim's...that'd be a very good sign.
Barb
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Posted : 22/06/2010 2:11 pm
I think that the surviving of that trachy may be caused by layer of snow under the palm.
Posted : 22/06/2010 2:43 pm
That will be crazy if it comes back from that, but very cool.
Bill
Posted : 22/06/2010 2:46 pm
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.
Just amazing 8)
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Posted : 22/06/2010 7:17 pm
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Everyone, the new palm is slowly rising out of the crown!!! It is a little burnt on the top but its all green underneath that and its probably gained an inch the past couple days with the near 80's weather. Give me a week and I'll post a picture, I want it to be a little bit bigger and we have mid 80's weather coming monday and tuesday.
Posted : 24/06/2010 1:35 pm
I take my hat off to you...and that Trachy.
(Mumbling: so why the heck did I lose my Naini Tal?) rhetorical, don't bother answering.
Too bad you don't have both male and female.
I'd want seeds of those for sure.
Barb
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Posted : 24/06/2010 4:06 pm
Nate that`s fantastic. Now you can post a pic so the rest of us can look at the resurrection of the cold hardiest palm in the world. When it survives I bet you will protect it a lot better this winter?
John
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Posted : 25/06/2010 9:46 pm
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