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The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree originated on the island of Chusan off the east coast of China, and the Windmill palm tree is ofttimes called the Chinese or Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune smuggled Windmill palm plants from China into the Kew Horticultural Gardens and into the Royal garden of Prince Albert of England in 1849 after the Opium Wars of China ended. The Windmill Palm tree was named in Latin, Trachycarpus fortunei, after Robert Fortune, and after 158 years, in the year 2007, these Windmill Fan Palm trees are still growing graciously as a distinguished, exotic, rare tree at Kew Gardens, a palm of noble bearing. From Kew Gardens in England, the Windmill Palm tree was disseminate allround Europe, from the Mediterranean hot climates of Italy and Greece to a cold hardy testing ground in the landscape gardens of Switzerland and Bulgaria, where the Windmill Palm trees have to an outstanding degree survived, leaves even remaining green when covered with ice or snow. During the past seven years, truckloads of Windmill Fan Palm trees have been transported and planted in Canada and have pulled through the extreme cold winters in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, and Michigan. Although most Windmill Palm nursery growers are conservative in recommending the Windmill Palm tree planting to be restricted to growing in zones 8-10; other Windmill Palm Nursery growers commend and guarantee this rare palm tree to grow in zones 3-10. There has been a rush by Northern nursery merchants who sells goods at retail to plant Windmill Palm trees for the home gardener, who wants that tropical look and accent around his pool or patio. The Windmill Palm tree is planted at plant nurseries from seed, where they grow with regards to one foot each year. The slow growth of the Windmill Palm is partially responsible for it is cold hardiness. Another characteristic that is inherent cold hardy is that the fibers that cover the trunk insulate the growing center of the tree. The brown-gray color of the burlap-like fibers cover the trunk like a wool covering in winter, and the dark color attracts the warmth of the sunlight. A coarse green wax covers the leaves and stems to make the Windmill Palm tree even more cold hardy. The Windmill Palm tree is most often times grown as a solitary, single trunk plant, however, a good deal of Windmill Palm nursery growers offer double or triple trees growing in the same container as huge as 100 gallons. These huge 10 foot tall Windmill Palm trees are choice, tropical looking specimens for malls and at entrances to governmental buildings. The Windmill Palm tree may be effortlessly shipped by UPS on short orders, and huge Windmill Palm trees may be shipped by semi-truck, motor freight lines. Shipping Windmill Palm trees may be without apparent effort done any season, and the survival rate is splendid for big specimens. Very big specimens of Windmill Palm trees have been not long back installed at the entrance of the new Cloister Resort Hotel-a 5-star hotel-located at Sea Island, Georgia, where the Windmill Palm tree is not only tropical in aspect and cold hardy, but exclusively immune to the Atlantic Ocean salt water air problems. The Cloister hotel has grown littler Windmill Palm trees at respective out buildings for past years successfully. The expense of installing big Windmill Palm trees may be offset by planting little specimens that may be expected to grow regarding one foot each year. Because of the recent success of planting big specimen trees of the tropical looking Windmill Palm tree in Canada and Northern U.S. States, a heap of gardeners are now experimenting with planting little Windmill Palm trees in the North, before the plant has developed a sufficient dense fiber covering to make the tree cold hardy sufficient to survive the deep freezes in the Northern States. Typically the Windmill Palm tree has a history of surviving over 150 years of age in the Western World at a height of 40 feet, but precise reports of Windmill Palm trees, native to the Island of Chusan in Eastern China, do not subsist in translated texts, but conceivably could reach 100 feet in height. The rapid growth of Western influence on the development of China will undoubtedly disclose a good deal of more interesting botanical, developmental facts concerning the Windmill Palm tree in the near future. The Windmill Palm tree appears to have all the perfection of tropical landscape gardening requisites for growing allround the United States and cold hardy areas of Canada and Europe. Most types of soils are worthy of acceptance or satisfactory for growing Windmill Palms. Very few insect and sickness troubles subsist to endanger growing Windmill Fan Palm trees. Even through slow growing, the Windmill Palm captivates the tropically minded garden caretaker for pool and courtyard plantings. The Windmill Palm tree grows as discerned male and female plants, and the date that is invented is inedible, resulting from the yellow, pleasantly, perfumed flowers that grow into blue seed, round and one-half inch in diameter. Other cold hardy palm trees that are peculiarly adapted for growing in the United States are the Needle (Raptor) Palm, Rhapidophyllum histrix; the Dwarf Palmetto Palm tree, Sabal minor; and the Saw Fan Palmetto palm tree, Serenoa repens.
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