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Just came home from the beach with 2 6ft. Windmills, 6-8 inches at the base. Hauled home in a U-Haul. Have never planted one in my life. Used chat gp. to help. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I like things that look like they don’t belong. I’m determined to make them live, everyone thinks I’m crazy, but oh well. I know winter will come, any help you beef them up, and protect them , or any other advise will be greatly appreciated. I’ll have to get a picture of the second one tomorrow. Can I fertilize. Chat GTP says not for a month. I don’t buy it. What kind of fertilizer do palm trees need? In my growing zone here in East Lynn Wv. I’m going to need all the help I can get.

Hi, just wanted to come on here and say I've had the same experience with the same user. I've been looking to acquire some seeds of Meryta balansae for a while and user @mattllags838 messaged me telling me that jdapalms had some available. The email I was provided with was lgrinningsidice@gmail.com. We talked for a bit and I was told to make a Zelle payment. Thankfully I did not end up sending any money as it began to feel fishy after exchanging a couple of emails. I was also provided with several photos of plants that were clearly taken from various users on this forum. To all other forum members, avoid this user!

Damage observations at the Polynesian. May 3rd. Satakentia at the new DVC hotel building The garden below used to have more lush plantings and a large Plumeria tree (now a stump). Definitely a lot cut back here. Slight browning of Phoenix hybrids Another Plumeria that bit the dust Golden shower Cassia fistula tree recently cut down, with some root suckers sprouting. I forget the ID of this large tropical tree (Some Brachychiton species maybe?) but it didn’t look good. Philodendron Xanadu took a hit While the garden by the front entrance looked good, I could tell there was a lot of foliage missing that had been there the previous year. That was even with large blower heaters they had pointing on this area during the Feb 1st freeze.

Some damage observations at Epcot. This was on May 2nd. The Foxtails farther from Spaceship earth were much more brown than some that were closer. The latter were comfortably recovering while a few of these looked questionable whether they would rebound well or at all. Big ficus at Moana Journey of water didn’t look good.

Back on May 1st. Coming into Orlando on I-75 from the north. Interstate Bismarckia plantings quite brown, some worse than others. Ones closer to Ocala were about 100% brown. Causarina Australian pines mostly dead. Also in this same area there is a large clump of Melaleuca that looked 100% brown. Enterolobium cyclocarpum ear tree with tip damage

I’ve lived in Northern Virginia for almost 40 years. This last winter was the worst, long duration a.m. p.m. cold I’ve experienced. I truly thought my 12-year in-ground Trachy was going to die. Don’t have the stats but it was at least 2-weeks of continuous sub freezing F. temps. Along with about 8” of snow and ice that lasted that whole time as well. Maybe the only saving grace was sunny days after the precip. fell? I removed about 6 of the most damaged lower fronds mid spring. Haven’t fertilized yet but it is pumping out nice new firm fronds, maybe 6 or 7 as of today. I’ll clean it up again this fall, after it’s had a chance to fully recover and replace the canopy. Even though it’s messy, it still looks great! It’s about 13’ of trunk so winter protection consisted of 200 Christmas lights in two loose balls laid up at the crown covered loosely in a layer of burlap…very unprofessional but it’s too tall now. I also wrapped a 3’ tall band of black landscaping cloth around the base of the trunk. This catches a fair amount of the sun’s radiated heat several hours each winter day. Of course, it flowered like crazy in early spring. I’ll cut those remnants off as well this fall. Anyway, I’ll send out status reports soon. I was shocked at how poorly my sunny Needle did.

That damage looks minimal. I checked a few wunderground sites and lows looked to be about 30, 31, 35. Stations at Rt 1 were 28, 25, 28. Def a microclimate, a good one.