cattail palm

[cedardave]

Hello,
I just bought a bunch of cattail palms hopeing they would suit my summer climate better than the majestys I have had. Does anyone here have any experiance growing these outdoors ? Im in winnipeg, so summers though short, can be warm. I had majestys last summer that did ok, but didnt survive the winter.

[Knnn]

These look best when grown in partial shade.... Will be a darker green color & growth is faster.
Have one in the GH, frozen solid the first winter and resprouted, fairly tough palms

Some more info -> http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Chamaedo ... tarum.html




Steve

[cedardave]

thank you

[Wes North Van]

Unless you bring your palms inside during the winter or build a heated greenhouse around them they will not survive outside in Winnipeg. There is only two species of chamaedora that will survive here in Vancouver and that is radicalis and microspadix.

[Barrie]

... and I had them both die!

Cheers, Barrie.

[cedardave]

Hello, all my palms end up in the house over the winter. I doubt there is any palm that would survive extender periods of -30c. Last fall I started an open loft area with skylights in the house that seems to have helped the plants maintain over the winter. The most recent cattails are now in a heated greenhouse and are doing well. Everthing else is still indoors... its still pretty cool here.

[Wes North Van]

You had both micrpspadix and radicalis die on you?
Funny they both survived this winter at my place. They did have about 25% frond damage but they will live.
Yet you have butia, washingtonia, phoenix, chamaerops that you hardly protect survive.
I guess with the extra rain and cloud cover I get here chamaedorea species like it better here and palms that like drier weather like it there.