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Chester B

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Driving around the other day and saw this nice tra chy, with a ton of fronds.  Don't usually see them like this as people like to trim them a lot.  Sorry for the picture quality, I was in a moving vehicle.

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Portland Trachy 2.jpg

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Windmills are extremely common around here but this one jumped out at me.  I saw another one down in Salem, Oregon by a carwash with a huge skirt on it - didn't even look like a trachy.  I plan on letting the ones in my front yard to form the skirt as well.  They're just getting to the size where I may stop trimming off dead fronds.

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Maybe it's just me but windmills in the PNW seem to keep "taller" crowns on them. They always look beautiful in that part of the country too.

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Mike in zone 6 Missouruh

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Beautiful palm. That is what a windmill should look like!

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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On 5/22/2019 at 9:39 AM, pin38 said:

Maybe it's just me but windmills in the PNW seem to keep "taller" crowns on them. They always look beautiful in that part of the country too.

I'd argue the PNW is the ideal climate/environment for trachycarpus outside it's native range.

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Trachycarpus do very well here better than most places. I've seen some nice photos of them growing in Atlanta, GA but most of them there have really skinny trunks compared to the PNW.

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5 hours ago, Palm crazy said:

Trachycarpus do very well here better than most places. I've seen some nice photos of them growing in Atlanta, GA but most of them there have really skinny trunks compared to the PNW.

The only time I see skinny trunks here in the PNW are in areas with lower rainfall surrounding Puget Sound, or people that never water in summer.  I also think it has to do with different types of soil moister and water levels. 

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This is purely speculation, but the ones I've seen that were planted as small specimens here have very robust trunks.  The ones with skinny trunks are ones that have been brought in as mature specimens (usually California) and planted.

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6 hours ago, Chester B said:

This is purely speculation, but the ones I've seen that were planted as small specimens here have very robust trunks.  The ones with skinny trunks are ones that have been brought in as mature specimens (usually California) and planted.

Good Point and observation. 

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On 5/26/2019 at 5:41 PM, Palm crazy said:

The only time I see skinny trunks here in the PNW are in areas with lower rainfall surrounding Puget Sound, or people that never water in summer.  I also think it has to do with different types of soil moister and water levels. 

I know this is an old thread, but I wonder if there is any correlation.  Atlanta averages 52" of rainfall a year.

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I have several planted and it just seems to be individual characteristics of each palm.   But they do like water in summer here.

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Here in nw europe they look very similar to the pnw Trachys. I think they are mostly imported from Italy and Spain. 

They are also cultivated in Southern France near the pyrenees and are regarded as very cold hardy. 

 

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3 hours ago, Marco67 said:

Here in nw europe they look very similar to the pnw Trachys. I think they are mostly imported from Italy and Spain. 

They are also cultivated in Southern France near the pyrenees and are regarded as very cold hardy. 

 

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Those look great!

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