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Old 04-16-2011, 10:40 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Default Re: Growing Windmill palms in zone 6?

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Originally Posted by natej740 View Post
There is a windmill palm 15 minutes from my house(zone 6) that i noticed 11 YEARS ago in southern Ohio. It has a huge trunk now its probably 7 feet of trunk or more. I finally grew the nerve to talk to the owner a few weeks ago and they have small ones for sale and other plants in a greenhouse. Ive always heard if you want a hardy one find a good northern source and not one from florida where the winters arent to bad. Id say seed grown trees from that tree should be really hardy. Next time i go down there ill try to get a pic of it!
Do they have like a site or somewhere they sell their Palms? I had two this past winter, but didn't protect them well at all. Had some family issues at the beginning of winter and didn't get them protected correctly, and I may have lost them both, as both had spear pull.

I recently bought some seeds to grow, but wouldn't mind finding a source up here in Ohio to get a Palm or two.
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