Juvenile Trachycarpus wagnerianus at 50°N

[Pal Meir]

Update after a hot and dry summer:

[mdsonofthesouth]

I really need to get one of these in my life!

[Pal Meir]

No damage after last winter without any protection:

[Flow]

Excellent! May it grow well this year.

[Pal Meir]

On 4/13/2019 at 9:47 PM, Flow said:

Excellent! May it grow well this year.

Thanks, but they are not the fastest growers at their shady place:

[mdsonofthesouth]

Wow beautiful specimen but extremely slow growing!

[Pal Meir]

Update 2019-12-31:

[nintendere]

Looking good. What's the minimum temperature that occured since it's been planted out?

[Pal Meir]

9 hours ago, nintendere said:

Looking good. What's the minimum temperature that occured since it's been planted out?

I can’t say anything about the minimum temps in Heidelberg (-15°C or so), but the worst thing that happened was the LONG LASTING severe dry freeze from February to March 2012 which led also to a deep-frozen soil.

[petite palm lover]

I dont realy like the huuge palm trees. I love the petite ones with the beautifull colours like yours. Beautifull green 

[Pal Meir]

Update 2020-07-08:

[Pal Meir]

The traces of last winter are now becoming visible:

[Flow]

On 7/21/2015 at 6:57 PM, Flow said:

You're only 300km from where I live but my waggy seems to be much faster than yours. However, I only planted it after the bad february 2012.

It was rather slow to start but this year it seems to have finally settled in properly and growth has accelerated considerably.

I just hope winters like 2012 don't come again because normal winters here are no problem for it.

 

I've just snapped a pic ten minutes ago, sorry about the bad quality, 10l watering can for scale:

 

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t107/florian_gertsch/2015/DSC_0034_zpsdqokz2te.jpg

 

The overall height is about 1.20m but the trunk is still only a bit more than 40cm.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t107/florian_gertsch/2015/DSC_0035_zpsiivmz4cx.jpg

 

It only receives afternoon/ evening sun. The last weeks have been so dry that growth seemed to slow down and I've started watering it.

 

Here's a pic from April 2012 just after planting. I find it has grown quite okay.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t107/florian_gertsch/2015/Trachycarpus%20wagnerianus%202%2020.04.2012_zpsu7zpgjfe.jpg

 

cheers

 

Ten years later, I can't take a decent photo of my waggy from up close because the garden is very narrow and crammed. It flowered for the first time in 2020 and it's a male, as are my other two flowering Trachies..