Burnt windmills

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chadec
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Burnt windmills

Post by chadec » Sat Mar 05, 2016 6:04 pm

Going into winter all of my windmills and two needles found theirselves in a new location. So for extra precaution I used Christmas lights this yr. Plus, during our ice storms I wrapped the fronds with a blanket then frost cloth. Results were about 80/20. I have 1 palm with spear pull, 1 palm that I consider defoliated. 3 windmills look ok, with some slight burning. Needles came through fine due to their size.
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There is also a small sabal birmingham going through its first winter in front of the large needle.
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1st yr trachy on left. 2nd yr brazoria from Steve in the middle and 1st yr louisiana on the right.
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Not a great pic, but this windmill has only minor burning with no protection.
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Some seedling sabal minors starting to put out more fronds.
My oldest birmingham on the left is growing in reverse.
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What started out as 2, 3 gallon blue pots turned into 4 sabal minors.
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Post by Henoh_Croatia » Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:49 am

Whats was the coldest temperature in your garden this winter, and how long freezing temperatures lasted without going above freezing point?Here, in Europe we have very mild and extra wet winter.
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Post by chadec » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:10 pm

We had a very mild winter also, only dropping to 15° F ( -9.44 C). We had 1 stretch were we stayed under freezing for 48 hrs. The most damaging was all winter storms here were solid ice.

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