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Windmill Palm Tree, Trachycarpus fortunei
The Windmill Palm Tree, Trachycarpus fortunei is the top choice, cold hardy palm tree to plant in Northern states, since it has survived low temperatures of minus 20 degrees F as far North as Canada and New York. The Windmill Palm Tree is protected from the cold by thick fibers that insulate the trunk of the Windmill Palm Tree from cold hardy damages. Not only is the Windmill Palm Tree desirable in Northern states because of it's cold hardy nature, but the Windmill Palm Tree is a choice specimen to plant in the South, where its tropical appearance and beautiful form make it a top choice for plantings at hotel entrances, pools, courtyards, patio specimens and spas everywhere.
The fan like leaves on the Windmill Palm Tree are graceful in appearance and bright green in color. The Windmill Palm Tree is a popular container tree to grow in large European capitals such as Paris, Madrid and Rome, and the trees are placed potted near curbs where they soften the views of pavement and concrete with vegetative naturalization accents.
The Windmill plant is actually a desert type plant and will survive easily in stressful environmental weather, droughts or city street fumes from automobiles or sewer gases. The trunk of the Windmill Palm Tree grows 8-12 inches wide in favorable conditions, and the green leaves grow on 3 feet petioles with small teeth bordering each side. Under the most favorable conditions the Windmill Palm Tree can grow about one foot each year in height with the growth flush beginning in April. The Windmill Palm Tree is easy to ship by U.P.S. or truckline and can be transplanted with great success by a Nursery that guarantees survival.
Dwarf Palmetto Fan Palm Tree, Sabal minor
The Dwarf Palmetto Fan Palm Tree, Sabal minor, is a native plant to much of the Eastern U.S. coastline. The dwarf sabal minor palmetto palm plants can tolerate temperatures below -20 degrees F. The underground trunk spreads, and thus the Dwarf Palmetto Palm Tree is protected from deep freezes, and the slow growth of the Dwarf Palmetto Palm plant is highly cold tolerant.
Several cultivars of the Dwarf Palmetto Fan Palm Trees have been cloned, however, they are too expensive for most people. Because of their slow growth, transplant shock of field dug plants, the clones of Dwarf Palmetto Palm plants are not successfully produced as a commercial product. The dwarf sabal palmetto minor plants are difficult to grow unless they are nursery grown. Transplanted sabal dwarf palmetto palm trees rarely survive from the wild, because the extensive underground lateral roots are pruned so severly that the sabal minor trunk shrivels and dies.
br/>The short trunk on the Dwarf Fan Palmetto Palm Tree is rough and asymmetrical in shape and form- caused by burying itself deeply underground. The fan palmetto shaped leaves are small, tough and grow vigorously in full sun and rarely grow over 6 feet tall, although some specimens of Dwarf Palmetto Palm Trees from Florida produce huge 6 feet trunks with fan leaves towering above.
The leaf color of the Dwarf Palmetto Palm Tree can be quite variable, depending on the age of the leaf from light blue-green to dark green and the leaves are smaller on the Dwarf Palmetto Palm Tree that most other ornamental cold hardy palm trees.
Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree, Serenoa repens
The Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree grows into clusters by division, appearing in the South as a dominant shrub in pine tree thickets and forests on the Eastern seacoast. The Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree is named, because of the two rows of saw teeth on the palm leaves, and palmetto-meaning small palm (dwarf). These clusters of palm trees rarely grow over 6 feet tall, but the dense protection of the saw tooth leaves is a favorite habitat of wildlife animals and birds. Foxes and snakes are constantly seeking wildlife food sources, and these animals make their burrows there too, often within the sandy dugouts of the land turtle, the terrapin, also called the “gopher” in parts of the South.
The Saw Palmetto grows so aggressively along U.S. highway 82, between Waycross and Brunswick, GA, that the State's transportation department sprays the Saw Palmetto Palm clusters with roundup causing the leaves to turn a brilliant orange, but often the clusters recoup themselves from the deep roots, returning vigorously after time. The seed of the sawtooth palmetto palms are sought after by birds, and the seed are widely spread through the pine forests to grow and choke out other plants.
Very old Saw Palmetto Palm Trees can grow trunks above the ground several feet tall capped by a rosette of exotic fans of palm leaves. These Saw Palmetto trees are sometimes 50 years old, very expensive, rare and collectible at ocean resorts, because of their bazaar shape, salt water adaptability and evergreen nature. Many coastal resorts leave the native dwarf saw palmetto trees in the landscape around borders of the property and driveway entrances. The saw tooth dwarf palm tree is slow growing by nature, which makes it a survivor of temperatures of zero degrees F or lower.
Nursery grown, dwarf, sawtooth palmetto palm trees are widely sought after to plant in Northern areas, because of their cold hardiness and evergreen nature. Of course the most desirable sawtooth palmetto plantings are those that are growing in the wild from native palms at newly established housing developments.
Needle Palm Tree, Rhapidophyllum hystrix
The Needle Palm, Rhapidophyllum hystrix grows as a native palm from coastal FL to NC and westward to LA. The Needle Palm plant grows best in sheltered wetlands, and alkaline sandy soils are best. The needle of the Needle Palm is sharp and grows up to 6 inches long in whirls that surround the trunk, and color ranges from gray to black to brown on the needle filaments.
The Needle Fan Palm Tree is planted at golf courses and resorts along the Atlantic seacoast, where it shows great salt water tolerance and can be planted in clumps underneath other palm trees or shrubs to shelter sunbathers from salt sprays and winds. The Fan Needle Palm Trees are evergreen being a cold hardy palm tree planted near pools, outdoor restaurants and seaside bars for that tropical look.
Because the Needle Palm Tree grows in clumps, the mother palm is not frequently separated from the needle palm offsets, so that the palm cluster leaves offer a privacy screen guarding sunbathers from unwanted eyes, and the needles offer security from trespassers.
TyTy Nursery has shipped Needle Palm Trees to most northern states and has never had to offer free replacement due to cold damage, even in Canada. Most cold hardy palm trees like needle palms are slow growing and are protected from trunk cold weather damage by the insulation of the needle and fibers that cover the trunk of the Needle Palm Tree.
Pindo Palm Tree (Jelly Palm Tree), Butia capitata
The Pindo Palm Tree is a tall beautiful tree with gracefully arched leaves that recurve and bend outward and point back toward the base of the trunk. The leaves of the Pindo Palm Tree have no thorns, unlike most other ornamental palm trees, and the color of the leaves on the Pindo Palm Trees is variable- from green to blue-green to silver, making this palm tree different in form as a specimen from other landscape palm trees. Once the lower leaves of the Pindo Palm Tree die, the leaf attachment to the trunk persists prominently to the trunk and gives a rugged texture appearance, however, in some cases the Pindo Palm Tree can shed these attachments after many years giving a smooth trunk. The Pindo Palm Tree grows 25-30 feet tall in the United States and grows in acid or alkaline soils, sandy or clay and is tolerant of salt water droughts and weather stresses. The Pindo Palm Tree flowers in the Spring and the flowers mature into a date-size orange fruit that is edible in the raw stage, or the dates are often made into a delicious jelly, thus the common name of the Pindo Palm Tree is the "Jelly Palm Tree". The dates are centered by a large seed, that if scattered in a landscape will germinate and grow into juvenile Pindo Palm Trees over 20-25 years and may grow only 6 feet tall when growing in a yard situation from the seed. The Pindo Palm Tree may only grow 6 feet tall in 20-25 years with a trunk 1 feet in diameter, but the leaves are massive and may reach 15 feet wide to both sides of the tree. The roots of the Pindo Palm Tree seedling are also extensive, growing radically from the center, and once a Pindo Palm Tree grows to this size, it begins to grow in height of about one foot each year.
A Pindo Palm Tree may be transplanted from a yard origin successfully, but the severing of the roots will delay growth for several years. Nursery grown Pindo Palm Trees have complete root systems and are easily transplanted with minimum shock. Very few trees will grow successfully under pine trees, however, Pindo Palm Trees grow undaunted underneath the shade and aggressive nature of the pine tree root system and are common companions in Southern gardens.
The Pindo Palm Tree in some cases has survived winter temperatures of zero degrees F but smaller specimens of Pindo Palm Trees were killed in the zero degree F freezes of 1983. Many wildlife animals such as squirrels, birds, opossum and raccoon feast on the jelly dates of the Pindo Palm Trees that are produced in huge numbers.
