I've included some photographs that I just took of some of the palms I've got growing here. I am going to plant the cold-hardy ones outside in the spring. The not-so-cold-hardy ones will remain in pots and come inside to grace the house in the winter.
The palms in the blue tubs are Trachycarpus Fortunei. The seeds were collected in June, 2009 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They will remain outside growing in the blue tubs for the duration of the winter with no more protection than the cover during extended periods of freezing weather.
The other palms pictured that will be planted outside include a large Sabal Palm var. Louisiana, Sabal Minor var. Talladega, AL, Sabal Minor var. Cape Hatteras, Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Needle Palm), three Trachycarpus Fortunei (grown from seed and obtained, allegedly, from a tree that had set seed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania), and a Sabal Birmingham.
I'd LOVE to plant the Mexican Fan Palm (Washingtonia robusta) outside...but it would take a great deal of protection to keep it going through our extended cold temperatures. We'll see - maybe I'll try it out.
Some of the other plants you can see include a Brugmansia, Phoenix roebelenii (Pygmy Date Palm), Philodendron bipinnatifidum (Tree Philodendron), Key Lime, Ensete ventricosum (Red Abyssinian Banana, Dwarf Cavendish Banana, Musa Basjoo, another taller red/green variegated banana plant of which I am unsure of the variety, a rubber tree, a few sago palms, a few Chinese Fan Palms, and some other assorted plants.
Happy Gardening!
-PolarPalm
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