Windmill Palm 🌴 || The Most Expensive Plant I’ve Ever Bought!
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- Today I am so pleased to be planting a Trachycarpus Fortunei, otherwise known as the Windmill Palm.
The Trachycarpus Fortunei originates from Japan and China. It is a hardy palm which can grow up to 40 feet tall, with a trunk as wide as 1 foot in diameter, and even larger.
These Windmill Palms have beautiful palm leaves which reach for the sun, and they are hardy to -20 Celsius when fully grown. Mine is much younger but should still be able to handle -8 Celsius which is fine in my US zone 8 equivalent climate.
The Trachycarpus Fortunei can be male or female, but no-one knows which, until they flower! The flowers on the male are bright yellow, while on the female they are more greener. They also have fruit later in the year.
In this video, we show you how we plant our new palm, and I’m making sure I do everything right, including using the correct palm fertiliser to look after it properly.
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Janette, The Enthusiastic Gardener
Always a joy moving one of my potted palms into the ground.😊
hi Luis, aren't palms so wonderful? its been 3 years since this video and I'm pleased to say my Trachycarpus has done amazingly well and still looks great. hope youre having a great weekend 😊❤️
Nice ones. I am supriced that 125 gbp is your most expensive plant. Seems like you are doing good on a budget.
Yes it really is Magnus, my 2nd was £80 for my little cloud pruned topiary Ilex with lots of little balls 😊
Oh wow what a wonderful palm tree 🌴
Thank you so much Daisy 🥰
Super plant💪A great reminder of your generous friends💪You are right about the cold this august. We get about a total of two hours sun a day and in dribs and drabs. Enjoy the weekend.
His/her name is Cooper (the name of my old school) 😊 yes it’s been a chilly summer hasn’t it? Have a great weekend 🥰
Beautiful plant 🌱👌
Nice information 👍
Thank you Sanjivani 😊
Wow gorgeous 👌👌 it's gonna look great over there 👌👌👌😊
Thank you Tanu, I love it already 🥰
I have two of these, bit larger than yours, great palms, the hardiest ones so yours should be fine.
Oh I’m so pleased to hear that Mooj, thanks 😊
So exciting! Love it and your enthusiasm! It’s going to fill that spot very nicely. 🥰
Thank you so much Lauren, I love it! Wanted one forever!! 😊
Always a great addition to the garden - an evergreen splash of the tropical!
Hello there and thanks for watching. It’s 2 years on now since I planted this and I’m so pleased to say it’s thriving and has grown such a lot! I do love it 💚🩷
Janette! I love your beautiful palm! Richard and you make a great team! And you had me rolling in laughter with your “white bathroom” fountain!!😂
Well, do you know I am very glad that Gemma made that comment because I was trying to convince myself I liked it, when I didn’t, and so now it’s being painted terracotta and it looks 💯 times nicer 🥰
How lovely bought with some of your leaving gift vouchers and named Cooper. It's fabulous, think that spot with your newly painted water feature and the brightly coloured plant next to it will really lift that corner. I had to laugh when you were adding the fertilizer and Richard adding hand fulls. I thought that is a plants equivalent of two roast dinners! Of course I have no more idea either. Can't wait to see the fountain back in place😁🤗
I know Penny!! He was shovelling it in, I had turned my back to get the wheelbarrow!! 🤣🤣 I didn’t have the heart to ask him to sift it all back out again. Oh well, I hope it doesn’t mind 🥰 the water feature is actually in again now, it’s terracotta, and it looks really lovely. Hope you have a wonderful weekend 🥰
I’m sorry I missed this a year ago. Welcome to the hardy palm club!!!! You are going to love this tree. 🌴
Oh yes, I do love it already and it’s got through its second winter (almost) just fine so I’m delighted. And yesterday I noticed there’s a new frond growing 😊💕 I’d like another one!! 💕
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener That’s great news! Oh yes you will have another before you know it lol.
I knew you would share what you used your gift vouchers for ,,,,it’s a lovely tree some thing off your garden wish list 😊❤️
Oh yes Angela I have lots more vouchers left. I might get myself a decent pair of pruners and I’d also like a nice spade. But plants always seem nicer to buy 🤣🥰
They are lovely palms I have 6 of them in my garden as well as 6 cordyline australis but I stopped using palm fertiliser as I was recommended to use chicken manure pellets and the results were much better for the palms they look healthier and grow a little faster!
Oh thank you for telling me NickR! That’s a very good tip. Your garden must be beautiful if it’s full of palms, how lovely 🥰
Oh I have wanted one of these too.
Hi there, me too 😊😊
He or She is absolutely gorgeous and a lovely addition to your garden Janette & Richard team effort 🪴🌺💕🌺🪴
Aw thanks Jasmine, I love my 🌴 so much!!
Great video as usual.
Thank you so much 😊
this will look beautiful when it’s well established !! it will really draw the eye to that corner 😁
That’s just what I’m hoping Andrew, thank you. I’ve never been happy with whatever I’ve done in that corner so far 😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener yes i agree , looks beautiful !!
Lovely,thanks for showing your process. Ive got two Fortuneii and one Wagi to plant soon,still choosing the best spots(mostly because space is quite limited). Look forward to more. Best wishes.
Hello! I love mine so much, this is its 3rd year and it has done so well. I’d like more but there’s not much room in my garden 😂❤️😊 happy weekend
Nice vid 🌳🍂
Thank you Sahab and have a great weekend 😊
When I bought mine about twenty years ago it was in an eight inch pot and frozen solid and covered in snow. It has been down to minus ten and never troubled itself. Good luck with yours, mine is now over twenty feet tall in Shropshire.
Oh my word Bligh Alot, that must be an incredible sight ❤️💙🇬🇧
A super investment in your garden! I have found this palm really hardy here. Nicely planted and I love the little dance you did before putting the tree in place.
Hello Rachel and thank you so much. I’m glad to hear they thrive in Ireland, so should be fine over here in the south east. Your garden is just so stunning so anything you like, I do too 🤣🤣 I was just so excited to plant I had to dance first 🤣 have a wonderful weekend 🥰
👋 Janette, omg I love your new palm. We always go to Florida for vacation ( except recently) and we visit family that live there and I always admire and drool over my cousins palm trees in her yard😝. This can be grown in my zone, 7 , I’m so excited about this, thank you so much for showing this beautiful tree on your channel. It’s going to be so beautiful in your yard once it begins to grow, and with the fountain nearby, it will look like a tropical island in your own backyard 💚💚.
Oh thank you so much Elizabeth 🌴🌴🌴 I love it too. I’ve never liked that corner area, no matter what I tried, and I love it so much now 🥰🎉😘😘
Yw🥰, picture it, you and Richard enjoying a cocktail under a 🌴 tree. I already started to look into them online 😂, they are not that expensive, 89.00 plus shipping 🥳🤗
That’s a very good price. Yes I think we should have a cocktail under our palm, that’s a very good idea. I do hope you get one Elizabeth. Oh and Richard today put in an uplighter to shine on it and so now I’m waiting for it to get dark 😊😊🥰
Ohhh so pretty, please take a picture, it will be beautiful 🤩
Just tried but it doesn’t come out very well on video, I only use my iPhone, but I will post it on a video. Looks magical 🥰
What a beautiful palm.I’m sure it will settle in well with you both.🥰
Thank you so much Avril, I have wanted one for ages 😊
Wow wee, what a stunning plant. And a lovely reminder of the job you just left. I love looking at gardens when I'm dog walking xx
I love looking at gardens on dog walks too 🤣🤣🤣 I wish you lived near me 🥰 thanks so much and have a wonderful weekend. Have you done all your shredding now? 🥰🥰
That is going to be a awesome palm for you. It is a top pick and will be a showpiece.
Hello there and thank you 😊 it’s been in a whole year now and is really thriving I am happy to say 😊 I love it. I’d like another one or something similar, or possibly a big tree Fern, but I wouldn’t plant anything this year because it’s just too hot, so maybe I can think about that for next year. Thanks for watching 🥰
Thank you for sharing.
Be well and be safe.
Peace
Thank you for watching and wishing you peace as well 🥰
Looks good and it will remind you of all the lovely memories from working at the school - great teamwork too!
Thanks Julie, yes, it will remind me of my 14 years there. That’s a long time at one place 😊🌴🎈🌈
I planted one that size in my garden 3 years ago and now it's higher than my 6 foot fence and I've got 9 others about 4 foot high ,that's trunk ! ,they just rocketed to the sky once they were put in the ground , they are bullet proof ,mines tolerated down to -6 and frozen rain ,snow ,just watch it grow and admire it .
Oh Lee!! Thank you so much for telling me that 😊 I love it. I think I need to take off the lower fronds which are brown and looking a bit tatty and I will give it some more fertiliser. I have my eye on tree ferns now, do you have any of those? 😍
Just checking out your videos for the first time. Great buy at a decent price. Loads of other palms you can grow in the uk with some effort. I'm up in the NE uk and grow over 10 types of palm outdoors. Some losses along the way but more success than failure. Good luck with your tropical venture
Good morning Vincenze and thanks so much for dropping by my garden and it’s so encouraging to hear you can grow all these palms and you’re farther north. This is my first one and I’m so delighted with it, it’s now through its second winter and had got bigger I’m sure, plus we had that whole week of snow in December, I just made sure to shake the snow off the fronds so they weren’t weighed down. I love the tropical look in gardens. Thanks so much and I wish you a fabulous weekend 🥰
Oh love your palm Janette, what a fab team you are 💙
Hello Sandra and thank you so much 🥰 Rich has added an uplighter which looks magical at night but it doesn’t come out very well on a video. Hope you’re ok, have a great evening xx
What a lovely specimen plant! Congratulations! Love your fertilizing directions😉we gardeners lol! The fountain I was curios but did not think it looked like a bathroom fixture ha ha!
You snd Richard make a fun show😊
Hi Teresa. I didn’t like it grey (white) I was just trying to convince myself. It’s terracotta now and SO much nicer. I have actually only just finished watching your video so will go straight over and leave you a comment 🥰
What a gorgeous specimen addition to your garden. Looking forward to seeing its gender😂 They grow close to the 40 foot mark here in Spain in shaded areas, although they take their time getting there. The great thing is that even as young trees they still look fabulous. Voucher well spent and a nice reminder of your previous job and colleagues.
Oh I love it Una 🌴 and we have repainted the fountain terracotta now and it doesn’t look like a toilet 🚽 any more 🥰🥰😆😆
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Terracotta sounds be wonderful, can't wait to see it.
I’m just heading over to watch your video right now! I didn’t get a chance this morning 🥰
The palm 🌴 looks really great, enjoy ur weekend Janette x
Thank you Helen, I do love it do much. 🌴🌴🌴🥰
Nice.
Hey there and thank you so much. Mine overwintered really well, so now I need to take off the older browning fronds and give it a lovely fertilise 😍
I have that palm in ireland i bought it for 16 euro many years ago . It was very young it was like a shrub in the garden. Its a boy yellow flowers it has sent up an other one just about a foot to the side and that one is about 7 foot tall now. The only down side is the mess the spent flowers make. I must remember to cut off the flower spikes before they start falling like snow.
Oh Alice thank you for telling me that. 16 Euros!! I love mine so much 🌴 I hope Richard hasn’t killed it with an overdose of fertiliser 🤣🤣 how long did yours take to start flowering?
Great video iav just planted one around 2 months ago its loved the hot weather recently, really hope it can handle north yorkshire winters 🤞time will tell. Happy planting. Looking forward to an update in the future to see how it's doing.
Hey there Carl and thank you so much, mine has been in a year now and got through its first winter just fine, yours will be just fine too, they can take very cold temps. I posted an update maybe a month ago, gave it a first prune and another fertilise. Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🥰
Oh that's good news thanks, ial have a watch of your pruning video 👍 enjoy the garden. Regards
Great video and garden. , Have to love Trachycarpus palms. They sell for approx $100 per trunk foot here on our island, I grow them from seed by the thousands, so I never have to buy them. They are a great additions to mild winter gardens . Cheers
Oh wow BananaJSSI where is your island? It sounds as if you are somewhere gorgeous and tropical. Your garden must look amazing with all those Trachycarpus and how long does one take to grow from seed? Awesome 😎
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Hi there, our Southern Gulf Islands are located off of the extreme south west coast of BC , Canada. I wish it was tropical here lol. The climate is similarto parts of the south UK. Trachycarpus seeds I harvest usually take several weeks to start germinating in the greenhouse. Here is a link to one of my YT channels th-cam.com/channels/Kuw8vZL_BS7vOtvCUjCefQ.html
aww that palm looks eye-catching. nice pick.
Thank you Dessy, it’s my favourite plant (don’t tell the others) 🤣🤣🥰
It's Beautiful!! I used to have 2 of them when I lived in South Carolina, you will love it.
Oh did you Peggy? I am delighted with mine, love it 🌴🌴
I can only grow mine in pots, and overwinter them in my heated greenhouse. I am in the US, in hardiness zone 6a. In my zone people who grow them in the ground make some elaborate heated shelters to keep them happy. Some people have also kept them happy in zone 4a in winter with the heated shelters, BUT, once the palms had gotten too tall, they had to just let the palms get killed by winter temps, sad to see.
For as North the Uk is, you guys sure do get great weather to plant a wide variety of plants, I mean palms are planted in the UK often, I see videos all the time, also the "tree ferns" too. I know, the jetstream makes it warmer in the Uk than most places that high up North would normally be.
Pretty garden too!
Hello there Julie!! It does get an awful lot colder as you go up towards the Midlands and especially Scotland, but I’m very near the south and on the east coast too, and so I’m in equivalent of a zone 8, but that’s really the mild winters, we don’t get much hotter than 75 most summers. Happy weekend 😍 oh and I absolutely adore tree ferns, I’ve been thinking about getting one but (a) they’re very expensive and (b) I’d have to do all the protection and wrapping them in the winter and that all sounds like a lot of work! 😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I've seen that on the west coast of England, it is warm enough to grow palms too. The Cotswald's? Or Cornwall, I think that's it.
I'd think that tree ferns would be zone 8 hardy, but, what do I know anyway?
thanks for the reply. 😊
It’s even warmer down in Cornwall, it’s so lovely there, it’s about a 6 hour drive away and Cotswolds is maybe 2.5 hour drive away. I am looking at tree ferns though, they’re just gorgeous.
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I know, I can just grow normal ferns here. Even in my greenhouse I can't keep a tree fern happy.
Your palm is beautiful! It was worth the money especailly if it makes you happy. You too are so funny and professional. The hole was perfect. Have a great weekend Janette.
Oh thank you Adra! I do love it, let’s hope it hasn’t overdosed on fertiliser 😂😂
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Lol, I was thinking the same but it should be fine because you used time released fertilizer. I'm hoping because it is so beautiful.😁
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That’s a beautiful plant. So happy for you!
I love it Carrie, I’ve wanted one for ages 😊
Janette, such a gorgeous palm! It’s perfect!
You kept adding scoops of fertilizer to the soil. I probably would’ve done the same thing. More is better than not enough. 🤷♀️ 😂
Nicely done you two. Looks amazing!
Hi Nikki, yes, and then Richard added another pound of fertiliser while my back was turned. Like someone commented, it was like giving it two big roast dinners 🤣 thanks for always watching and commenting my dear friend 🥰
Beautiful! ❤
I have 6 (for now😆) in my backyard and I love it!
Greetings from Croatia!
Hello to Croatia!!! I imagine your garden is just beautiful with 6 of these! Wonderful 😍
I’ve got a climber you might want to try, it’s called a blue bell creeper, coated in blue flowers, last year mine was still flowering in December from June time, hoping it will again this year, you don’t get so many plants with proper blue colour, and it looks lovely
Oh I just googled and it’s absolutely lovely! Thank you, I’m going to look out for it. I love blue flowers too, they seem so unusual 🥰
I had one, in the last home I had. I loved it so much that I found another one at a plant nursery .... cant wait to plant mine in, I also complemented the plam with a lady finger .... yes they are expensive. But worth while to have in garden. Lovely garden you have.
Oh how fabulous, I just googled lady finger and wow that’s gorgeous. I’m going to prune my Trachycarpus and give it some fertiliser soon. Have a great week 😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I am glad you liked her, Have a wonderful week from Melbourne OZ x
Oh!! The other side of the world 🌎!!! The world is a small place these days though isn’t it? And amazing that we can all be connected. Happy week to you 😍😎❤️
The trachycarpus looks beautiful there. You sound like me when my husband helps me with planting a l plant. lol.
Thank you Linda, always lovely hearing from you. I think Rich overdosed it with fertiliser 🤣 but I do love it so much. He’s now added an uplighter which is so lovely but it doesn’t come out very well on video 🥰
Beautiful palm.. There are a few in ontario who are able to keep them going..
Great spot for it.. It should do well there..
Oh thank you so much Chris, I have wanted one for ages, so happy 🌴🌴🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener me too.. Trying to grow from seeds a friend gave me but so far no luck. Take up to a year to germinate
Oh good grief, that’s a lot of patience required!!! 🤣🤣😊🌴
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I have given up
Nice palm! Geberally T.fortunei run $100 per trunk foot where I live. We have a palm nursery here
Hello Jungle Joe, I guess mine is maybe 1 foot trunk. I love mine and it’s got through 2 (almost) winters no problem, and yesterday I noticed a new frond is about to unfurl which is brilliant! Hope you’re ok and thanks for watching 😊🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Sounds awesome. It will flourish for you in the UK climate. We have a Palm nursery her eon the Gulf islands off of the far west coast of Canada so I grow thousands of them from local seed I harvest. You may enjoy my other YT channel with lots of Palmy videos I upload daily too . Here is a link for you th-cam.com/users/BananaJSSI
Oh thank you so much for telling me about your channel, I am off to work now and out this evening but I will look forward to seeing on Friday night. I need more tips and ideas, love tropical plants and gardens so excellent 💕🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Have a great day and happy gardening. Cheers
You too 💕💕
Hi Mrs enthusiastic, i too am exited to be buying a Butia capitata - Jelly Palm when they are back in stock. they do well in the uk and the added bonus is the fruit they harvest as they suppose to taste like pineapple just hope we get better sunshine next year as the fruit from this perticular palm need the sun to flower & fruit. but yes i love your new palm and you have a lovely garden to put it in, dont forget to water Richard with beer and the palm with water not the other way round.....lol love your youtube keep up the good vibes. blesss
Hello Peter!! I’ve just googled your new Butia Capitata and wow they are gorgeous. I am a complete novice with palms so don’t know all the names. Love yours. And yes it says they are hardy in the UK 🇬🇧 so what an excellent choice you’ve made. And the fruit looks great and you can make jam 😊 where abouts are you? Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Yes, I will make sure Richard has enough beer to keep him going with all his garden jobs 🍺😊 plus me too of course, I need beer too 🤣 have a fabulous day!!
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Hello again, to you both, my wife and i reside in Gloucestershire, I had to resign from my job last year due to a condition called myasthenia gravis ,double vision , eyes locked . After my eyes opened and i could see enough i took up gardening. I am not a pro like you but it is a soothing and rewarding effort. I cannot work yet so most of my time is in the garden and i am loving it. As for my palm it is not mine yet as they are out of stock but when in the ground i will gladly show you a photo. Lovely chatting to you ,take care and be safe.
Gloucestershire is a beautiful part of the country 😊 I just googled and read all about myasthenia gravis, you’ve been through a tough time indeed, but you have found the perfect place to recuperate in your garden - so marvellous for our well being to get outside often and you might not ever have discovered gardening if you had still been working. 🥰 but I am certainly not a pro, I am just an ordinary person, so gardening qualifications or training or anything, so if I can learn how to garden, anyone can. I love it Peter, it’s my happy place 😊 so lovely to chat with you, I’d love to see photos 😊🥰
enjoyed this Vid of your planting of your Trachycarpus, hows it doing! what about a update .
Oh thank you so much. It’s doing very well. Got through it’s first winter in my garden so I’m thankful for that. Maybe it will bloom this year and I can find out if it’s a boy or a girl 🤣😍🐣
Oh I love it! And how exciting that we have to wait and see if it’s a boy or a girl 🤗
Can’t wait for your gender reveal video 🌴💙💗 🥳
Oh that has made me laugh Lovemusic 🤣🤣 yes, I need to do a gender reveal video 🤣🤣🤣🌴🌴🌈
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Wow! That’s gorgeous Janette. You’ve spent your vouchers wisely. Loved the planting dance 🤣🤣
🤣🤣 that was because I was so excited 🤣 plus I’d waited for 2 weeks for Richard to help me. Whenever he wasn’t working it rained ☔️🥰
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Hi Cooper, it’s on its second winter here and still looking ok 😊
We have such different perspectives on plants depending on where we currently are. In Arizona these things grow themselves. I can't count how many selfseeded 🌴 palms I have uprooted and thrown away. Because it's so dry and hot I can't grow the other beautiful plants you have in your garden which I am envious of...
Isn’t that funny Bare Bones and you’re so right, to me they look all tropical and like I’m on holiday somewhere hot 🏝🤣
Perfect spot for your new plant Janette. Love the planting dance 😆. Were you both flossing 😁 x
🤣🤣🤣 hello Lou, I don’t know what you’d call that dancing 🤣 thanks for always leaving me wonderful comments, and for watching of course 🥰
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When I think of palms, England does not come to mind! So surprised to see so many in your neighborhood. Good luck with it - it looks great and it's special b/c it was a gift.
BTW, shouldn't a plumber have a bathroom-looking fixture in his yard? ;)
You’d be surprised how many palms there are in my neighbourhood! I only started to notice them recently. I love mine 🥰 and yes, Richard is so used to installing bathrooms but I don’t want one in my garden 🤣🤣 have a fabulous week xx
Awww that is so nice to have in your garden and the fountain will look awesome next to it .... uh... that is where you are putting the fountain --- Right ... ???? ..... Hugs
🤣🤣 yes, the fountain is now in place and it’s terracotta and looks so much lovelier, I’m so glad we have done it a different colour. Will show you on Tuesday. Hugs to you and have a lovely spider-free weekend 🤣🥰😊🌴
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener .... LOL .... How did you know that I plan on pulling out dead flowers and cleaning up some of my garden .... Always some sort of gigantic creature hiding in there ... LOL ...Happy weekend for you .... Hugs
🤣🤣 you too!!
I have about 30 windmill palms in my garden and greenhouse in North Georgia US. Even though The UK is closer to the Arctic Circle than North Georgia, you mostly have a better growing zone than we do. We are 7a. Our summers are hotter than yours but our Winters are colder. Most of my windmill palms were grown from seeds I bought on eBay. The seeds were cheap and the palms are slow growers. My tallest windmill palm is about 15 feet tall.
Oh wow CMack Scott that’s so interesting and most impressive that you’ve grown so many from seed! Your climate sounds much more extreme weather than mine, although I’m in a zone 8 our temps are much milder all year round by the sounds of it. So lovely to chat with you! Have a wonderful week 😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I have lived in Georgia for about 20 years. One day I was looking at the magazine rack while my wife was shopping and spotted the "English Garden" magazine. A garden featured on the cover showed windmill palms covered in snow. I thought no way! That was the beginning of my interest in the windmill palm. Besides the UK having milder Winters than some parts of the Southern US, The ocean temperature in Southern California is colder than the ocean temperature in the Southern beaches of the UK. Windmill palms are successfully grown in southern areas of Alaska and Switzerland!
You are so interesting! Thank you for telling me all this, it’s fascinating to hear how you came to love the palms. And living in Georgia sounds so wonderful 😍
Another really interesting video, I think you should definitely give him or her a pet name.
Hello Julie!! His/her name is Cooper which was the name of my school 😊 have a fabulous weekend 🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener awww how lovely 💗welcome Cooper xxx
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i want to add one to my garden
Oh I do hope you do! They’re so lovely! Have a really great day 💚
We always want what's not easy to get, or what might be impossible. I live in the tropics so palms are all over the place, but I do sometimes get intrigued by the idea of stuff like tulips and daffodils, which can't be grown here.
Oh yes, you are so right there hebneh. Palms must be everywhere over with you in the tropics. Which sounds magical to me by the way 😊😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I'm very enthusiastic about tropical plants as well, and I enjoy palms a lot too. But the plants you don't see a lot are sometimes the ones you think about.
@@hebneh oh yes, definitely true 😍
Great video. Could I ask where you got your palm tree
Hi there Jimmy and thank you. This video is from 2021 and it has just done so well, and thriving. I bought it from my local garden centre called Summerhill. They are really winter hardy 😊
Of course you can buy smaller specimens very cheaply online and once established they grow quite fast.
Hi Sean, what is really like to try is a tree Fern, I think they’re so beautiful, but I worry about having to over-winter them so I need to research all that. Thanks so much for watching and commenting 😍
Just noticed at 3:43 both the cordyline and windmill palm planted right next to eachother os that possible? I would have thought the spread would be a problem as they grow?
Hello there LeoneJ, I just had to have a look at 3.43 which is when I was out on my dog walk I believe? That’s interesting that you spotted that! I’m going to have another look when I walk past tomorrow morning because I think you’re right, it does look like a comedy line planted underneath a windmill Palm!! Thanks for watching 🥰
Hello again, what is the plant behind you when you’re mixing the soil in the wheel barrow please? Because this is long term tree you might want to think about it’s position so close to the fence and building because of the roots, after a few years you maybe surprised how much root it creates, and you don’t want to risk moving once it’s properly settled
Sorry I’m not sure if that’s just a wall or not, I thought it was part of the house
I think the plant you mean is a Chinese Plumbago, the blue one? It comes back every year even though I hack it to the ground. The wall is not my house but it is the garage of my neighbour to the side of me. But good point though, I didn’t know the roots are that aggressive 🤔
Excellent just looked it up, yes that’s the one, thanks for responding, 👍🙂
i’m trying to convince my mom to plant a windmill palm. i’m in south jersey where it gets no where near -10 degrees
Hello there!! Well I’ve had mine now for over 2 years and it’s just done so well, and it’s been through the really hot summer we had last year, then the week of snow we had last December, and it’s been in a lot of wind at times too, and it’s brilliant and has grown a lot! I highly recommend getting one, you must tell your Mom I said to get one 😆 good luck with convincing her 👍♥️
i forgot to respond to this but i ended up convincing my mom and now i have two! i’m so excited
Oh wow that’s just fabulous!! Aren’t they just lovely. I’d get another but I just don’t have the space for any more. So pleased you got not one but two and thank you so much for taking the time to let me know 😊☀️
When would you relocate a palm ? I’m in the NE of England. Thanks
Hi there, I would wait until after your last frost date before moving your palm, then it won’t have to possibly face any frost in addition to having the shock of being moved. That’s what I would do anyway. I hope that helps, and thanks so much for watching 🥰
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Thank you so much!!!
Once it's in the ground. Trust me it'll take more than -8. Obviously sustained minus temps are the real killers.
Oh that’s good to know David, thank you. We rarely get that low here though, but you can never predict the weather these days can you? 😍 thanks for watching 😊
How is it doing?
Hi Eijiro I am delighted to say it is doing so well! It’s now had its second winter in my garden, it’s grown new fronds and even managed a week of snow. I’ve been so pleased with it 😊 thanks so much for watching 🥰
The Price makes me think they may be a rash of Palm thefts if it is ever found out!
Ooh Greensage I hadn’t thought of that!! 😆 so far so good and no-one has stolen it!! 🤣🩷
Come on what about a update on your Trachycarpus ?....on Vid ,
Hello!! 😄 thank you for watching!! Well, I have been hoping that one day it’s going to flower so I’ll finally know if it’s male or female but, 3 years on from planting, it still hasn’t 🤣 I have shown it loads but haven’t devoted a separate video on it, you’re right. It’s done great though. I’ll see what I can come up with 👍 hope you’ve had a great weekend!! 🤩💜
You are such a lovely and loving couple!! 🍌😍🍌
Oh thank you naked bananas 😊 that’s so lovely of you to say that. You should hear us off camera shouting at each other 😉 not really just joking 🤣🥰