Plant and Grow a Cold Hardy Windmill Palm Tree
The Windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, tree has been extrensively planted and grown during the last five years in most Northern States and in Canada, much to the incredulous surprise of environmentalists and climatologists. Tropical palm trees are not generally believed to have cold hardy characteristics sufficient to survive in non-tropical locations where temperatures often plunge to depths below zero. The windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, can survive cold weather because of two characteristics: slow growth and a brown-black burlap-like hair that insulates the trunk from winter ravages.
The windmill palm tree, Trachycarpus fortunei, has been reported to grow 20 feet tall in the United States, but the windmill palm is not a native tree here and has only a short history of growing in the United States, after it was imported into Florida from Europe. Many windmill palm trees in Europe are growing as tall as 40 feet. In optimum conditions, the windmill palm tree can grow one foot per year, and the trunk is tall and slender—one foot maximum in diameter—and the base is smaller in diameter than the top, as is the case with many other palm tree species. The width of the windmill palm tree canopy is about 15 feet and the leaves are fan shaped and can grow 3 feet long.
The brown-black burlap-like hair that covers the trunk of the windmill palm is dense and so thick and interconnected that the merristematic growing point in the center of the windmill palm tree is insulated from the cold. After several years of aging, the brown-black hair covering the windmill palm trunk turns grey in color. In Europe, a tourist can find very old, tall windmill palm trees where the hair covering the trunk has eroded, exposing a grey, slick bark trunk with a regal appearance. The fan-shaped leaves are covered with a thick green waxy coat on the surface and the leaf margins are lined with sharp teeth.
Windmill palm trees are in high demand as a tropical looking pool tree or for landscape planting near patios and door entrances. Some landscape gardeners prefer to plant a windmill palm tree as a shade tree or as a specimen tree accent. Although most windmill palm trees are grown as single trunk specimens, double trunk windmill palm trees or triple trunk specimens can be ordered from TyTy Nursery. These windmill palm trees can be shipped immediately from TyTy to your home by UPS or Semi-Truck. Windmill palm trees can be grown in containers, but it seems ridiculous to grow a cold hardy tree in a container, if it will tolerate cold weather when planted outside anywhere in the United States. The windmill palm tree can be grown in containers when they are small, but often in an office situation, the windmill palm tree is not suitable, since touching teeth on the leaves can be an unpleasant experience.
TyTy Nursery can ship windmill palms in many sizes ranging from one foot tall to 14 feet tall. Since 2001, TyTy has shipped many palm trees to almost every State, where they have survived hurricanes, snow, ice storms, and many varied soil types in landscapes and garden settings.
Cold Hardy Windmill Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei
The most cold hardy palm tree is the windmill palm tree, Trachycarpus fortunei, a palm tree that is found growing as far north as Canada. The Windmill palm tree, Trachycarpus fortunei, is a common landscape sight throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. These Windmill palm trees are very cold hardy, and can be see flourishing along the city streets of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, where the windmill palms grow up to 40ft in height. The slender trunks are covered with brown-black burlap-like fibers that look like hair, this hair insulates the palm tree trunk against the cold, and with aging, the fibers turn gray, and on large old trees the fibers fall off to reveal a slick palm trunk. The palm tree trunk is so well insulated that the center terminal stays alive through the winter. The Windmill's waxy leaves are bright green above and silver-green below. TyTy Nursery began selling windmill palm trees a decade ago as small trees and recently has been selling windmill trees up to 14 feet tall and successfully transports these large windmill palm trees by semi-trucks for planting in such northern cold states as Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and many others. These large windmill palm trees appear to have survived temperatures of twenty degrees below zero, heavy snow, and ice storms. Call to order your large, nursery grown Windmill palm tree, Trachycarpus fortunei, from TyTy Nursery today: (888)811-9132
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