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Palms (Apr to Oct)
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. ! |
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Butia Capitata |
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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. |
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Chamaerops humilis
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Another good fan palm for the UK which can tolerate temperatures down to minus 10C to minus 12C. I have found it more frost tolerant than Butia Capitata. In the last two winters, temperature's have been down to minus 12C here in Oxfordshire, and this plant suffers only minimal damage. It has a bushy habit throwing up a multitude of root suckers that produce more of a clump of palms rather than a traditional single stem. It does not get to any real height outside in the UK maybe 3 or 4 feet at most. It produces suckers, which in time create a bushy shape with quite stiff leaves. An ideal hardy palm if you have a smaller garden. |
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Chamaerops humilis var cerifera |
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We have some 4 year old starter plants of the “Blue Mediterranean Fan Palm” that produces wonderful blue leaves otherwise identical to the normal Mediterranean Fan Palm. However it is reputed to be slightly more cold hardy to minus 15°C, coming from a mountainous region with severe frosts in the winter but in our experience only hardy to -10C |
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Sabal minor |
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A slow growing trunkless palm with eventually large, fan shaped, stiff blue leaves. Excellent as a tub plant for patios over wintered in a frost free greenhouse. It is quite cold hardy maybe to minus 10C once established and unusual as the leaf stems continue right into the leaves. Please note that these 8 year old palms grown from seed have still not yet fully developed the fan shaped leaves. |
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Trachycarpus fortunei |
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These plants are now 3 years old from seed but for anyone wanting to obtain a young plant and does not want to wait 3 years from seed they represent a good cost saving alternative? |
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Trachycarpus fortunei |
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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. |
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Symbol Code To Grow --- Easy n, Moderate n and Challenging n May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣ Backlog for Fresh Seed --- u New Seeds not in Catalogue ---« Hardiness --- ] (To -5°C) ]] (To -10°C) ]]] (To -15°C) Growing Symbols --- £ Sunny position £ Shady position S Lots of Water |
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