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Hardy and semi hardy Palms from Jungle Plants, these are my second favourite plants for tropical effects, some being totally hardy! This particular palm is a Trachycarpus Fortunei growing in my front garden, totally happy and regularly flowering in coldest Oxfordshire. !

Butia Capitata
Jelly Palm n£]]
3 and larger 5 Litre Plants Available

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Apart from the Trachycarpus family this is one of the best hardy palm alternatives to grow in the UK, frost hardy to about minus 10°C and very difficult to obtain young plants. It is not a fan but a feather palm, looking much more like the traditional date palm with beautiful blue-green leaves. In my own experience it is only marginally hardy in our frost pocket without any protection at all but easy to wrap with a bit of Hessian on extra cold nights to protect the crown and new growth.

Trachycarpus fortunei
Chusan Hardy Palm n£]]]
10 Litre Plants £31.95  JP1334

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My favourite hardy palm from China that I have been growing for maybe 30 years. I have lost one before in a particularly cold and wet winter in Chesham but I think it was the wet rather than the cold that proved fatal. In Oxford we have experienced temperatures down to about minus 15C in the past which did not damage the plant in the picture. Once established it grows quickly and we are probably talking about planting one out in your Garden in its 3rd or 4th year from seed to give it a chance to succeed. A must for any Palm devotee it has a very hairy trunk with huge (and I mean huge up to 4 ft across) fan shaped leaves and grows well in most soils particularly slightly alkaline. The photograph on the left was taken in our garden, illustrating a 20 years old palm flowering in May. 
 

Trachycarpus takil

Limited Availability
Kumaon Palm n£]]]
3 Litre Plants £19.95  JP1589

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This rare and only-recently-in-cultivation Kumaon Fan Palm is closely related to Fortunei. Takil is a big tree, broadly similar in appearance to T. fortunei but larger in all its parts, and probably a good few degrees hardier, thus making it the hardiest in the genus. Sometimes the trunk fibres fall naturally, leaving a bare trunk. The most obvious differences from Fortunei, apart from size, are the more numerous segments of the leaf up to 60. Rare to find a supply but we have picked up a few plants for sale.
 

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