if available i want 9 of the palm seedlings--i have varigated rhapis paLMS (6 INCH POT) SELL FOR 75 DOLLARS EACH,i WILL TRADE ONE OF THEM FOR YOUR PALM SEEDLINGS DON HUDSON

I grow Windmill Fan palms in Ohio and they come back after winter the most that happens is the leaves burn from the cold and drop off but come back in spring. We had a hard cold winter here and I had just planted 6 seedling in early summer,I covered them with a clear plastic container from Lowes when it really got bad to help get started .They made through our Ohio winter,{the worst one we have had in years] The palm you want is Trachycarpus Fortunei ,it is in the windmill palm family and is the hardiest of them all .Any thing you buy at Walmart up here is not hardy to winter over.I have had good luck with these in Ohio so I'm sure in S.C you will have no problem.I also grow Bananas that I just cut down mulch over and they come back every spring early summer and just a note this Fan Palms like's well drain soil or they will die[They don't like to be wet ] very drought tolerant and these bare fruit.

Welcome JMLz16! Thats a nice list of palms. That fishtail palm must be a beauty and San Franciso defintiely has a pretty good climate for many different palms. Heres an updated list of my palms... (some of this list was copy, pasted, and updated from the list above) ...... Windmill palm (5) (3 in the ground 2 have been through 2 winters, one has been through its 1st winter now, and 2 are 4 year olds that are still pretty small and are in pots) Pindo palm (3) (one that has been through 2 winters in the ground and one that will be going through its first winter in the ground this year.) European Fan Palm (inground and going into 2nd winter) Blue European Fan Palm Parlor Palm (Triple, 7 years old) Cat palm (2) Magesty Palm (3, one is huge one is medium sized, and the last is small) Queen palm (8 years old from small seedling) Livistonia Chinensis (4 of them, one in ground going into 2nd winter, others in pots) Coconut palms(2) Bottle palm Chamaedorea Microspadix Chamaedorea tepejilote Chamaedorea seifrizii Spindle palm (large potted plant with ringed trunk forming) Sabal Minor (3rd winter in the ground coming up) Foxtail palm Solitare Palm (about 2 feet of clear trunk) I have 19 species of palm trees that are currently living at least 10-15 others that havent made it over the years -Alex

M Hello anyone. Here are my experiences. I live in San Diego, California and after the wild fires destroyed my entire house, I rebuilt and re-landscaped with palm trees. After knowing nothing about those plants and some failures, I now have a palm tree "forest" in my front yard. So...king palms look magnificant in "singles"; avoid washingtonians because in a few years they will too tall to cut/trim. Avoid queen palms because they must be trimmed when they get tall. Windmill palms are trouble free but must be trimmed after they reach 15' high or so. I went to Target garden center and purchased several kentia palms (3 plants in each pot) for $19 each and took them home and very very carefully seperated them individually and planted them outside as understory palms. The first 20 months they grew slowly but didn't burn and were fine. Now the sun doesn't bother them at all and they are growing faster and faster. Kentia palms and king palms grow wonderfully and somewhat fast indoors as house plants. Have them but never over water them. Use palm fertilizer and occasionally fish fertilizer. Beautiful house plants....then move them outside when too large and acclimate them and put them into the ground in your landscaping. A good outdoor palm is the fox tail palm...it also is self -cleaning. But good house palms for fast beautiful growth are kentia, king, and cat palms.