Trachycarpus fortunei crashing down

[palmtreesforpleasure]

30 minutes ago a large crashing  noise had us running outside in the wind and rain to see what happened.

For only the second time in 33 years a palm blew down at home.

A 40 year old 5m trunking Trachycarpus fortunei came crashing down

A few old Chamaedorea sartorii are not to happy either under the fallen trunk.

The Clivea's are not happy either.

for the next 2 days the wind and rain are increasing so hopefully nothing else will come down.

Very lucky not to live in extreme storms zones like many others.

Such is life......

regards

Colin

 

[Jim in Los Altos]

Oh no! Never saw a Trachy fall over like that! 

[happypalms]

A bit windy down your way is it. Curse the wind doing damage to palms like that. Look on the bright side plenty of palm growing rain will be a good thing. They can have those cyclones up North Queensland. I will stick with the subtropical climate for now. It’s starting to get pretty  windy up here. Send the rain our way. 
Richard 

[peachy]

What a shame. It must feel awful to lose a lovely old palm like that, not to mention the damage and clean up. Sad news indeed. We had extreme wind warnings last night but nothing happened for which I am now extra thankful.

Hope you get it cleared up soon without too much drama.

Peachy and the kids

[Harry’s Palms]

That is really sad.  Trachycarpus are normally  very strong . I have lost Caryota in the wind before , and that is common but the others aren’t a problem . I hope the damage is minimal to the rest of the garden. Good luck . Harry

[Kim]

Sorry to read the news, Colin. Surprising that should happen for you, and losing such an old friend in the garden is hard to take. My condolences.

[Mazat]

On 7/1/2025 at 8:55 AM, palmtreesforpleasure said:

30 minutes ago a large crashing  noise had us running outside in the wind and rain to see what happened.

For only the second time in 33 years a palm blew down at home.

A 40 year old 5m trunking Trachycarpus fortunei came crashing down

A few old Chamaedorea sartorii are not to happy either under the fallen trunk.

The Clivea's are not happy either.

for the next 2 days the wind and rain are increasing so hopefully nothing else will come down.

Very lucky not to live in extreme storms zones like many others.

Such is life......

regards

Colin

 

that is really, really sad.

every plant and every animal that accompanies you during a certain period of time and dies afterwards is also a sad event, similar, at least for us, to the death of a dear person ...

We have taken both into our hearts ♥️

we had never seen it here before.

we only heard from a third party that one of their neighbors in southern Switzerland had a Trachycarpus on a slope that had fallen over after a big storm.

according to her, it was about 40 years old at the time. This was over 8 years ago and the owner lived away from a forest...