I wasn’t quite ready for what I found when I walked through my front yard at dusk yesterday and noticed what looked like black mold on the smallest front coming out of my prize palm in the front yard – my 3 year old windmill palm. This was the first winter the palm went unprotected, and I was reasonably confident that it had weathered the record cold without fail. The leaves are green, there are new leaves coming out of it, but curiously, the smallest of the emerging frond is rotten. Besides that, it looks great.
Eeeks!
I’ve read numerous accounts about these palms completely defoliating and coming back, and have had numerous conversations through this blog with people who know a lot more about hardy palms than I do, and the consensus is that this one will pull through. So both of my windmills, and my European fan palm are all sans central growth spears now.
I keep telling myself that experimental gardeners need to roll with the punches. But this one felt more like a kick in the jewels. Here it is pictured on Easter Sunday with a fresh dusting of snow. It's still bright green, and looks very healthy.
Eeeks!
I’ve read numerous accounts about these palms completely defoliating and coming back, and have had numerous conversations through this blog with people who know a lot more about hardy palms than I do, and the consensus is that this one will pull through. So both of my windmills, and my European fan palm are all sans central growth spears now.
I keep telling myself that experimental gardeners need to roll with the punches. But this one felt more like a kick in the jewels. Here it is pictured on Easter Sunday with a fresh dusting of snow. It's still bright green, and looks very healthy.
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