JunglePlants

Palms

(Delivery Apr to Oct)

Hardy and semi hardy Palms mail order from Jungle Gardens, these are my second favourite plants for tropical effects, some being totally hardy! This particular palm is a Trachycarpus Fortunei growing in my front garden, totally happy and regularly flowering in coldest Oxfordshire.

Butia Capitata 5L

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Jelly Palm large 5 litre plants ■☻җ җ ♣

Apart from the Trachycarpus family this is one of the best hardy palm alternatives to grow in the UK, frost hardy to about minus 10°C and very difficult to obtain young plants. It is not a fan but a feather palm, looking much more like the traditional date palm with beautiful blue-green leaves. In my own experience it is only marginally hardy in our frost pocket without any protection at all but easy to wrap with a bit of hesian on extra cold nights to protect the crown and new growth.

Chamaerops humilis

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Mediterranean Fan Palm - 3 litre, 4 year old starter plants■☻җ җ

Another good fan palm for the UK which can tolerate temperatures down to minus 10C with only minimal damage. However down to -14C like the winter of 2009/10 caused major damage or complete loss without protection. It has a bushy habit throwing up a multitude of root suckers that produce more of a clump of palms rather than a traditional single stem. It does not get to any real height outside in the UK maybe 3 or 4 feet at most. It produces suckers, which in time create a bushy shape with quite stiff leaves. An ideal hardy palm if you have a smaller garden.

Chamaerops humilis var cerifera

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Mediterranean Blue Fan Palm 1 litre starter plants £]]

We have some 4 year old starter plants of the “Blue Mediterranean Fan Palm” that produces wonderful blue leaves otherwise identical to the normal Mediterranean Fan Palm. However it is reputed to be slightly more cold hardy to minus 15°C, coming from a mountainous region with severe frosts in the winter but in our experience only hardy to -10C

Sabal minor

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Dwarf Palmetto Palm 3 litre plants

A slow growing trunkless palm with eventually large, fan shaped, stiff blue leaves. Excellent as a tub plant for patios over wintered in a frost free greenhouse. It is quite cold hardy maybe to minus 10C once established and unusual as the leaf stems continue right into the leaves. Please note that these 8 year old palms grown from seed have still not yet fully developed the fan shaped leaves.

Trachycarpus fortunei

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Chusan Palm The hardy Palm, 1 litre starter plants ■☻җ җ җ

These plants are now 3 years old from seed but for anyone wanting to obtain a young plant and does not want to wait 3 years from seed they represent a good cost saving alternative?

Trachycarpus fortunei 10L

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Chusan Palm The hardy Palm, 10 litre plants ■☻җ җ җ

My favourite hardy palm from China that I have been growing for maybe 30 years. I have lost one before in a particularly cold and wet winter in Chesham but I think it was the wet rather than the cold that proved fatal. In Oxford we have experienced temperatures down to about minus 15C in the past which did not damage the plant in the picture. Once established it grows quickly and we are probably talking about planting one out in your Garden in its 3rd or 4th year from seed to give it a chance to succeed. A must for any Palm devotee it has a very hairy trunk with huge (and I mean huge up to 4 ft across) fan shaped leaves and grows well in most soils particularly slightly alkaline. The photograph on the left was taken in our garden, illustrating a 20 years old palm flowering in May. The one below left taken in 2008 is the size of of our 10 litre plants. Below right after 2 to 3 years planted.

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To Grow -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥