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My mother's outdoor Trachycarpus fortunei!

DG57

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Hi, I'm Damien and a 30-year-old guy, and here is my first topic on this forum. :) 

I live in the North-East of France, close to the border with the very small country of Luxembourg, in an average-sized city called Thionville. To give you an idea of my climate, please rather search the bigger city of Metz on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz#Climate. It's a semi-continental climate that is intermediate between a true Dfb humid continental climate (Moscow, Russia) and a true Cfb temperate oceanic climate (London, UK).

My mother has recently moved in her newly-built house on the outskirts of the city and I convinced her to buy and plant a palm tree in her front garden to give it a more exotic look. As I live in an apartment in the city center, I don't have the chance to have a private garden. This explains that. lol 

Here are some pictures that I took before winter 2016-17, around September/October. After a few researches, I learnt that it was better to cover the palm during its very first winter spent outside with a special blanket purposely made for plants in colder climates. She thus had to do so. As incredible as it sounds, she won't need to do this again next winter for our climate, which nevertheless is cold to very cold at times between November and March. We have had snow these past few days, and in early December, we even had ice days (the temperature never went above the freezing mark during several days in a row)! Windmill palms prove once again their exceptional hardiness! I will take and post further pictures of her covered windmill palm later, next time I go to my mum's home.

Thank you for watching. :) 

 

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Nice large palm! Welcome.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Nice...looks like a perfect choice for the climate you described. Here in Seattle we just had 11 inches of snow at my house, which is very rare for this climate, which is fairly similar to London, UK. All of my palms (2 Trachys pictured, 1 Med Fan Palm, and 1 Butia) are doing well after several days of being covered in snow...

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On 1/10/2017, 11:12:05, DG57 said:

Thank you for your welcome, people! :D 

Nice to meet you!

See my Private Message to you . . .

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Hi people! I'm searching for your help, please.

My mother's palm tree is now suffering quite a bit since approximately mid-March. I don't really know the reason and I'm calling for your knowledge, your advice and your help: is it because of the longer-than-average and colder-than-average winter, is it because of the brutal and quick rise in temperature around precisely mid-March, or is it maybe because of another reason? Or maybe is it a normal reaction (hopefully)?

Please note that we covered the palm tree with a special "wrapping": the palm tree was planted around late September / early October 2016, and was protected (special "wrapping") between mid-November 2016 until early March 2017.

The coldest values that the plant had to support were about -13°C. It was -12 / -13°C twice, and below -5°C about 15 times. There also were two periods of ice days (one period of 5 consecutive days and one shorter period of 3 consecutive days).

In March, we quickly got to +20°C as early as 16th March, and there was a prolonged period of very sunny weather, with minimums at +2 / +6°C and maximums at +17 / +22°C.

Concerning rainfall, it was pretty much normal, with alternating periods of sunshine and of some rainy episodes.

Other Trachycarpus fortunei that I have seen in the area all were doing well (but they were older ones). This is a youngster!

Here are pictures, what do you think? It's looking worse that in the first pictures.

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The old growth is damaged and you can’t do anything about that except cut off all the brown tips / leaves but keep as must of the green as possible. This will improve the appearance and take some of the stress off it. As long as the new growth is good it will recover and look much better in a few months. Keep watering it on a regular basic and hold off fertilizing till you start to get some new leaves going again. Thats my two cents worth. Maybe others have more advise. 

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:D And one more thing…. Welcome to the board! :yay:

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