A quality Trachycarpus Fortunei specimen in my area...

[cordyman]

Never spotted this till I took a rat-run detour today, not sure if its ever had any winter protection, but by the size of it i'd say its been through winter 09/10. Put on some decent growth since the street view camera did its rounds too...


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Today, what a beauty!

[karl66]

Looks healthy specimen but i just dont like all the lower leaves on Trachycarpus's!, i have about 3 large ones like this but will trim them once they settle. karl.

[Conifers]

Looks healthy specimen but i just dont like all the lower leaves on Trachycarpus's!

I do, they look far better with all their leaves

[flounder]

Can't believe I'm saying this, I agree with Coni. I prefer the natural, unmanicured look. Of course its all personal taste and depends if you're under planting as well, but in a lawned area it looks good

[karl66]

I suppose its a personel thing but to me it makes them look less tropical & more like a bush , cha chamerop's can carry the look perfectly though. karl.

[cordyman]

I think it looks absolutely stunning with the leaves on, considering the lower leaves are in such good condition.

There was a Trachycarpus in someones garden on here which was 15metres+ i'd love to find the post, there was a shed under it and a small deckchair if that helps narrow it down

It had the lower half removed of leaves then the entire top half natural full of its skirting. Thats the kind of effect i'd like, leave skirt on till it gets to monster size, then display the lower trunk.


ps. also I wonder if plant would be as chunky/tall/healthy now if the owner had gone for bushy top only for the last several years?

[kata]

Lovely,

Thanks for sharing this Cordy!!

[cordyman]

its amazing what a single specimen plant can do to a garden Kata, really transforms the house and even the road for me

[dino]

Have to agree with Karl, I like to see trunk. Maybe an Alpha male thing

[Trudytropics]

I'm a leaves off kind a girl , looks like a big bush to me and less like the tropical palm I want it to be, horses for courses though

[Tom2006]

Cracking palm!!!....Love the leaves on look myself.

[charliepridham]

Year or two on it there wont be the choice with the leaves! the lower ones will start to go shortly.

Am I the only one who thought it looks a bit lonely?

[Conifers]

Am I the only one who thought it looks a bit lonely?

It does, doesn't it! Could definitely do with some more around it.

[Kerinsian]

I too agree with the lonely comment, sometimes I wonder when I see single specimens like this if the owner got it more for the cachet of having an expensive specimen than fora n actual love of exotics/gardening. There's one that looks very similar to this in Llanelli, when I saw the picture I had to check to see where it was located as at first I thought it was the same one!

[cordyman]

I too agree with the lonely comment, sometimes I wonder when I see single specimens like this if the owner got it more for the cachet of having an expensive specimen than fora n actual love of exotics/gardening. There's one that looks very similar to this in Llanelli, when I saw the picture I had to check to see where it was located as at first I thought it was the same one!

I think this is probably more a £10 palm bought when in a 5 litre pot, and left to its own devices, see quite a lot of lone Trachycarpus's, not sure if people look much further than the label "hardy windmill palm" then plant and forget.


I think i'd like a mix of skirted and naked trachys in my garden in years to come when they get big.