Zone 7 garden

[Henoh]

My garden is outside of city heat island, about 30 km to the east from Zagreb at weekend house in rural area and the garden is one or two degrees Celsius colder than the city. There are not many palm species but few thrive and some strugle from year to year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=waO7VjkjvN8

Trachycarpus princeps, geminisectus, ukhrulensis, princeps hybrid/new form, ‘Nova’ and all Chamaerops are pasive protected with heavy mulching with pine straws and for some species with some cover against snow and rain during winter. 

Same garden under snow two winters ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCB5NSxBpLo

Here are included pictures from previus winters, January 2017 and February 2018.

[Henoh]

Young Sabal ‘Birmingham’ under snow 2017 and two pictures from this year during growing season. I got this one from MJPapay from North Carolina as one leaf seedling.  

Edited November 23, 2018 by Henoh

[Henoh]

[Henoh]

Chamaerops humilis v. cerifera and young T. wagnerianus.

[Henoh]

T. princeps, T. ukhrulensis and young T. takil.

[Henoh]

And finaly, this is ‘comunity’ protection for T. princeps, T. ukhrulensis, T. princeps hybrid/new form and Nannorrhops Kashmir form. Mulching with pine straws and cover against snow and rain. I never heated anything in the garden because I dont live there.    

[kinzyjr]

Very nice! 

[cm05]

Nice palms. Very cool to see all of these palms growing in an area with winters that are similar to here.

Also good to see that ‘Nova’ is reasonably hardy, I’ve seen some people say it’s zone 7 while others say it’s zone 9.

[Henoh]

Thanks for nice words. Narrative about ‘Nova’ also confuse me. I hope mine is true and not another regular T. fortunei. At the moment I don’t have new pictures of ‘Nova’ but only old ones after winter 2017 and 2018. Is it real thing? 

[Henoh]

For full picture I think it’s fair to other members of forum to publish how all those palm looks after overpast winters. Not nice looking plants in garden for sure. After unusually warm winter 2017/1018 (December and January and my T. fortunei and T. wagnerianus responded with flowering in the middle of winter)  cold wave at end of February 2018 do more damage than cold wave with month subzero temperatures in January 2017. So here are some pictures of T. fortunei’s T. takil, T. ukhrulensis, T. princeps, Nannorrhops, Chamaerops on their ugly days.

[Henoh]

Worst winter for my palms was 2017 with almost month long subzero temperatures. I lost that winter passive protected Butia odorata (which lasted for 7 years), Brahea armata (5 years in garden), 2 x Sabal etonia, 2 x Trachycarpus geminisectus, one Chamaerops cerifera, one unprotected young T. fortunei, Musa sikkimensis, Yucca rostrata. For survivors, southern exposure helping them to recover. In attachment pictures of losted B. odorata, B. armata and S. etonia.

[Henoh]

Second snow this winter in my garden

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FycWeJ8vME8

[Swolte]

Scary! You could have played some darker, ominous background music with all that snow!

Wonderful garden, though. Did you plant anything new since last year that will be tested? What are your long-term winners? 

~ S

[Henoh]

This snow is just game for fun. It can be more serious with deep snow and prolonged cold. Sabal minor and Rhapidophyllum histryx are hardiest palms for me. Sabal minor sometimes need tying up leaves because they easely broke up by heavy, wet snow. Sometimes falls to 60 cm (two foot) of snow. Then in line of hardiest palms is Trachycarpus fortunei, wagnerianus, nanus, Sabal ‘Birmingahm’. Trachycarpus princeps, princeps hybrid, and ukhrulensis can be seriously damaged with prolonged cold. They are more zone 8 palms. Good palm for colder climates with hot summers is Chamaerops humilis var. cerifera. If they are protected with mulch and some cover against rain and snow they can be reliable palm for zone 7 (7b).  

I planted this year seedlings of T. fortunei x nanus for test.