wrapping tracycarpus.

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wrapping tracycarpus.

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I know we have plenty of time to decide but do any members stuff hay or straw in the crown area of these palms. 2 have 4.5 ff trunks fortunei, and 1 a 3ft trunk waggy. All in the ground.
grub

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In a word Karl...No.
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No
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No. George at thepalmhouse says to keep the rain and snow off in winter and wrap well with fleece if its looking cold.
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Nope, All mine ever get is heavy snow knocked off them.
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I'll be lagging my pots this winter and if it gets anywhere near -8 I'll be using duvets through the night to wrap the crowns.

I'd be much happier if mine were in the ground but I bought them too late in the year to get them established well enough for winter so I'll be planting next March.
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Tom2006 wrote:George at thepalmhouse says to keep the rain and snow off in winter and wrap well with fleece if its looking cold.
This one is in a near neighbour's garden and got no protection at all in either 2009/10 or 2010/11 - and it's doing fine, no damage afterwards at all icon_thumright
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Why do you think its too late to plant in the ground? George said it was fine. There are still 3 months of growth time. If you don't plant in the ground you can always sink.the pot into the ground.
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GoggleboxUK wrote:I'll be lagging my pots this winter and if it gets anywhere near -8 I'll be using duvets through the night to wrap the crowns.

I'd be much happier if mine were in the ground but I bought them too late in the year to get them established well enough for winter so I'll be planting next March.
Get it in the ground man!

I left my large waggy in a pot last winter with just two layers of bubblewrap around the pot and a 2" layer of gravel on the top and it survived -19c 8)
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Jezza did you protect the leaves at all?
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Nope, none of my trachys are protected. My biggest two after last winter...
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They look super healthy!
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One in first pic was potted over winter, went in the ground in march. 2nd pic has been in the ground since march '09.
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Never protected in the past but in hindsight would have protected a decent size Waggie and Trachycarpus if I'd have known about these silly temperatures we had. Resulted in the Waggie spearpull and a sawn off Trachycarpus trunk. Other taller Trachys looked rubbish.

This Winter I'm putting a thick layer of mulch round the base and would use fleece for the spear area if we get similar to last year.

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I will be doing the same Di.
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