| The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree
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| | leaves and stems to make the Windmill
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| originated on the island of Chusan off
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| | Palm tree even more cold hardy.
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| the east coast of China, and the Windmill
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| | The Windmill Palm tree is most often
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| palm tree is often called the Chinese or
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| | grown as a solitary, single trunk plant,
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| Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune smuggled
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| | however, some Windmill Palm nursery
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| Windmill palm plants from China into the
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| | growers offer double or triple trees
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| Kew Horticultural Gardens and into the
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| | growing in the same container as large as
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| Royal garden of Prince Albert of England
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| | 100 gallons. These huge 10 foot tall
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| in 1849 after the Opium Wars of China
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| | Windmill Palm trees are choice, tropical
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| ended. The Windmill Palm tree was named
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| | looking specimens for malls and at
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| in Latin, Trachycarpus fortunei, after
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| | entrances to governmental buildings. The
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| Robert Fortune, and after 158 years, in
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| | Windmill Palm tree can be easily shipped
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| the year 2007, these Windmill Fan Palm
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| | by UPS on short orders, and large
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| trees are still growing gracefully as a
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| | Windmill Palm trees can be shipped by
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| distinguished, exotic, rare tree at Kew
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| | semi-truck, motor freight lines. Shipping
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| Gardens, a palm of noble bearing.
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| | Windmill Palm trees can be easily done
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| From Kew Gardens in England, the Windmill
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| | any season, and the survival rate is
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| Palm tree was spread throughout Europe,
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| | excellent for large specimens. Very large
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| from the Mediterranean hot climates of
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| | specimens of Windmill Palm trees have
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| Italy and Greece to a cold hardy testing
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| | been recently installed at the entrance
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| ground in the landscape gardens of
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| | of the new Cloister Resort Hotel-a 5-star
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| Switzerland and Bulgaria, where the
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| | hotel-located at Sea Island, Georgia,
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| Windmill Palm trees have remarkably
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| | where the Windmill Palm tree is not only
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| survived, leaves even remaining green
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| | tropical in appearance and cold hardy,
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| when covered with ice or snow. During the
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| | but completely resistant to the Atlantic
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| past seven years, truckloads of Windmill
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| | Ocean salt water air problems. The
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| Fan Palm trees have been transported and
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| | Cloister hotel has grown smaller Windmill
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| planted in Canada and have survived the
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| | Palm trees at various out buildings for
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| extreme cold winters in New York,
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| | past years successfully. The expense of
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| Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, and
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| | installing large Windmill Palm trees can
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| Michigan.
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| | be offset by planting small specimens
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| Although most Windmill Palm nursery
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| | that can be expected to grow about one
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| growers are conservative in recommending
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| | foot each year. Because of the recent
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| the Windmill Palm tree planting to be
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| | success of planting large specimen trees
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| restricted to growing in zones 8-10;
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| | of the tropical looking Windmill Palm
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| other Windmill Palm Nursery growers
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| | tree in Canada and Northern U.S. States,
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| recommend and guarantee this rare palm
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| | many gardeners are now experimenting with
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| tree to grow in zones 3-10. There has
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| | planting small Windmill Palm trees in the
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| been a rush by Northern nursery retailers
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| | North, before the plant has developed a
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| to plant Windmill Palm trees for the home
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| | sufficient dense fiber covering to make
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| gardener, who wants that tropical look
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| | the tree cold hardy enough to survive the
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| and accent around his pool or patio. The
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| | deep freezes in the Northern States.
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| Windmill Palm tree is planted at plant
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| | Typically the Windmill Palm tree has a
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| nurseries from seed, where they grow
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| | history of surviving over 150 years of
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| about one foot each year. The slow growth
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| | age in the Western World at a height of
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| of the Windmill Palm is partially
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| | 40 feet, but accurate reports of Windmill
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| responsible for its cold hardiness.
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| | Palm trees, native to the Island of
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| Another characteristic that is inherently
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| | Chusan in Eastern China, do not exist in
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| cold hardy is that the fibers that cover
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| | translated texts, but conceivably could
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| the trunk insulate the growing center of
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| | reach 100 feet in height. The rapid
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| the tree. The brown-gray color of the
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| | growth of Western influence on the
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| burlap-like fibers cover the trunk like a
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| | development of China will undoubtedly
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| wool covering in winter, and the dark
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| | reveal many more interesting botanical,
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| color attracts the warmth of the
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| | developmental facts concerning the
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| sunlight. A coarse green wax covers the
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| | Windmill Palm tree in the near future.
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