Bulgarian palms

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:22 am

I don't remember which was a topic we were discussing the Donov's palms surviving this winter. Anyway here is a picture (http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343146.jpg) showing a Trachy after 500 hours of subzero T (http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5341107.jpg).

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:39 am

http://www.ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343146.jpg
http://www.ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5341107.jpg

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:33 am

Thanks, Buddy!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:47 am

I don't know how you did that, Aaron, but I have more links to the guy's pics.

By the way, there was minus 23.6 C at that north-western part of Bulgaria on the February 9th.

CIDP with no active or passive protection at all - just snow cover: http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343150.jpg

CIDP with active protection. A damage occurred due to some blackouts: http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343148.jpg

Butia - plastic and snow cover: http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343162.jpg

Washy with some heat inside of protection: http://ivonekitov.glog.bg/_files/5343149.jpg

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:32 am

That Trachy is spectacular, Igor.

A CIDP!!! Wow.
Would have thought those results were impossible, even with snow as insulation.

Amazing!

Thanks for the photos!

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:57 am

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:54 pm

Hi Igor,

I'm glad to see your palms appear to be OK after your terrible winter. Keep us updated.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:38 pm

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks, Buddy!

No problem.

Amazing winter surviving palms.

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:11 pm

Considering those temps, all of the palms seem to be in pretty good condition!

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:18 pm

Igor it is incredible these palms survived. More and more people will start growing palms with a little protection because of what they see is possible. Thank you for sharing these photos!

John

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:26 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Igor, I'm glad to see your palms appear to be OK after your terrible winter. Keep us updated.

Tim, yes, they seems to be OK, but those palms are not mine! They grow in Bulgaria that is 4 000 km west of my town.... The guy posted pictures of his palms on one Ukrainian forum. I'm just sharing with you 'cos you are not able reading the Russian.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:36 pm

Igor, Glad to hear from you. You have suffered through a terrible winter: enjoy the coming spring!

Mike

damir · Post by **damir** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:47 pm

great pics!! i have 2 t.bulgaria small seedlings. it will be planted this year outdoor. we'll see are they cold hardy as it says in internet. this is one of 2 bulgaria tracy palm

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:10 pm

Heres a picture of my T.Bulgaria from last November-

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:13 pm

Both gorgeous specimens, Damir and Jim.

How old is yours Jim?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:23 am

About 4

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:44 am

Here is an update of Trachycarpus from Plovdiv (Bulgaria) after one night with a temperature minus 24,6 C.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:31 am

But some of them are most likely dead...

Picture posted at http://myflora.org.ua. The author name is Bobson.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:21 am

Those photos break my heart, Igor.

After all those years...

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:35 pm

Oh, that is sad.
And preventable, right? With electric heat tape and lights, with wrap?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:48 pm

That's so sad

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:20 pm

Igor, they should possibly think about cutting the trunks (like Jim did) to see if any growth emerges.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:29 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:But some of them are most likely dead...

Picture posted at http://myflora.org.ua. The author name is Bobson.

Always a chance if the petioles are still green.................

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:17 am

yes, some of those Trachys look dead. Keep us updated. Thanks.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu May 10, 2012 8:13 am

Here is an update of the palm survived minus 23,4C last winter in Bulgaria. Thanks to Bobson from Plovdiv for sharing the pics.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu May 10, 2012 10:36 am

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 10, 2012 12:43 pm

How very pretty!

Sincerely hope that multitude of flower spathes isn't its last hurrah

Barb

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Thu May 10, 2012 1:20 pm

Wow, that's fantastic! I think if the palm was fighting death, it would have aborted the flower spathes. I'm looking forward to seeing some more updated pics!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 10, 2012 1:28 pm

aborted the flower spathes

Just thinking back to our apple orcharding days.
Any tree that was ready to croak put out an amazing amount of blossoms, easily double that of other trees.

I've never seen a prettier pic of palm blossoms than Igor's.

Barb

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu May 10, 2012 6:14 pm

yes, that Trachy looks like it will pull through!

ivonekitov · Post by **ivonekitov** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:26 am

Hi all!

I'm new here. Thanks Igor and Google i find this Forum. I am the owner of that...hm, garden, linked by Igor and a little ashamed, because first: that garden is not always in perfect condition(I'm not living there, just 2 or 3 times a month on weekends at the summer, and usually once monthly in the winter) and two: I think for myself as totally "newby"in this exotic plant gardening - only 2-3 years involved in this hobby

So, anyway, I'll do anything possible next days and weeks to translate the latest descriptions in the "site" in English too. With my apologize I have not yet done this, but the idea of this site was just to be smth like online photo-gallery for myself and my fiends to show them palms and bananas.
Thanks for your patience and for this unexpected interest to my...casual garden. Hope next years it will survive and became more beautifull. I will be happy to answer any questions related with.
Ivo

ivonekitov · Post by **ivonekitov** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:46 am

The latest photo, June 6th, of a Canarian Date palm with no winter protection. In March most of the green leaves dried and died, despite the warm weather, but some green spears remained in the center and there was no doubt, the plant is alive. So this is his condition few days ago.
Another one, with protection seems much better and apparently accelerates its growth in may.
To not annoy you, here are (and will uload) the last photos and information about my modest garden. (PROMICE: description in English soon as posible!)

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:08 am

Ivo, incredible photos after a very hard winter.

Wonderful that the CIDP is alive.

And don't apologize for your "casual garden"...we were all thrilled and hoping to see that palm surviving.
Delighted you have joined PN.

Barb

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:03 pm

Hi Ivo,

Nice to see you here in PN. Great to see your palms after winter. Keep exoting

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:19 pm

Ivo, welcome to PalmsNorth! Your palms look pretty good considering the extreme temperatures they've been through!

zack · Post by **zack** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:51 pm

Hi palm fans,
I'am enthusiast from Bulgaria and I love all cold hardy palms and all other exotic plants.
I have around 15 small palms planted in the ground and maybe 100 in pots

Maybe most of you know that this winter was extremely hard

Here are some pictures taken in my home town Ivaylovgrad

Washingtonia with passive protection photographed in March:

Washingtonia with passive protection photographed in May:

Trachycarpus photographed in 01.March:

Trachycarpus without protection photographed in December:

and after the winter in March:

Trachycarpus without protection planted in September(I know that this is mistake) and photographed in March:

the same Trachycarpus in May:

Some of my palms

Kind regards,
Dimitar Katrandzhiev

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:00 pm

Hi Zack, welcome aboard Palms North.

How nice to have another palm lover from Bulgaria.
I'm thrilled to see how well your palms look (especially the big Trachy) after such a horrible winter.

A wonderful selection of palms you have.

All look very well cared for.

Will look forward to hearing and seeing more of your work.
Congratulations.

Barb

zack · Post by **zack** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:07 pm

Hi Barb,
My situation is almost like this with Ivo

My hometown is 350 km. away from the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia where I live and work.
My garden is in Ivaylovgrad and is currently under construction

I hope that it will get a decent look till next year, cause I am going to Ivaylovgrad for only 1 or 2 weekends in the month.
And all these palms which you will see on my pictures I am planning to plant one day in different places in my hometown

Kind regards,
zack

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:30 pm

How wonderful your new garden will look when all those potted palms are planted.
Oh what a huge project!
But so very satisfying.

1 or 2 weekends a month...but once the holes are dug, the planting will be sheer pleasure.

Maybe a motorized auger would be good?

Barb

Henoh_Croatia · Post by **Henoh_Croatia** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:49 pm

Zack, welcome to PalmsNorth!