BananaLee

Hey! My palms made it through the winter!!! I will Update the list when I experience with more palms.
Here is my list so far:
Trachycarpus Fortunei
Livistona Chinensis

The Trachy I just mulched it with 6in or so of pine mulch and covered it with burlap. The Livistona Chinensis I just mulched with about a foot of pine mulch. I didn't have fungicide and the spear leaves pulled out, and I thought it was dead. I took it out of the ground and found that the roots were really secure. Then to my surprise I saw new roots coming out!!! So my brother and I quickly replanted and watered it. I'm sooo happy it came through!!

Banana Gallery - Livisona Chinensis roots
Banana Gallery - Livisona Chinensis roots
Banana Gallery - Livisona Chinensis roots
Banana Gallery - Livisona Chinensis new roots!!!

JuniPerez

Awesome!

My Trachycarpus wagnerianus did excellent with just FreezePruf and about 6" of mulch... the leaves were doing nicely until about February/March... they are about a third burned, but no spear pulls and no fungus (which was really worrying me).

palmtree

Great job! I live in a zone 7 and sucessfully overwintered a pindo palm, 2 windmill palms, and a sabal minor. They all had protection except for one of the windmill palms and the only palm with damage was my sabal minor (which was a surprise since it is suppose to be the most cold tolerant), but they are all growing well now. This year I have these in the ground as well as a medditeranean fan palm, sabal domingensis, Chamaedorea microspadix, livingstonia, and another windmill palm. Im really happy to hear your livingstonia made it in a zone 6 no less!

Glad to hear that you had lots of success! Good luck!

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Location: New York City, zone 7b

JuniPerez

Palmtree,

How did you overwinter the pindos? I have two and keep them in pots in an unprotected porch, but they at least stay dry there... I don't dare plant inground (yet)...

BananaLee

I'm gonna try Sabal palms like Sabal Minor, Tamaulipas, and all that fun stuff. I'm even gonna try Pindo palms (Butia capitata). I hope it works like it did this time!

palmtree

JuniPerez...
To protect my pindo first I tied up the leaves with some rope.
Then I covered the leaves with 1 strand of x-mas lights. I made sure that the trunk got a good amount of x mas lights.
After that I put a frost cloth on it.
After the frost cloth went on I got a large plastic garbage bin to put over it and cover it from rain or snow (which we got a lot of this year).
This all took about 5 minutes to put on and wasnt hard at all. It kept temps about 20F higher than the actual airtemp and went on when temps got below 25F.
Also Its important to keep palms dry during the winter so if rain was in the forecast for any day after mid november, I covered it with the garbage bin only. We didnt get our first freeze until nearly december but by then the ground around my pindo was nice and dry.
Since you live in a colder zone than me, you might need to make your protection a little warmer. I think maybe using 2 frost cloths instead of 1 and 2 strands of lights instead of 1 will keep temps warm enough to keep your palm maybe 25F higher than actual outside temps. Pindos will not show any damage if temps are kept at or above 20. Mine saw 23F without any damage at all, not even to the tips.

Hope I helped!! Heres a pic of the pindo back in august of 2009.



Here it is in April of 2010...




BananaLee... I would definitely try all the palms you mentioned. I hope you also have success with these!

Good luck

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Location: New York City, zone 7b