Very cool,how much was it?and where did you get it?

Blondeboy
That is the green variety the silver has maroon or silver color with blue leaves. Post a pic of your washy i'm interested to see how big it's got.

Very cool Blondboy! Bismarks are quickly becoming one of my favorite fan palms. Just not as hardy as I would like them to be. I would definitely need a greenhouse.

Jim, in Canada, we get WAYYY overcharged for things here.

The price that was on this palm and the Spindle was $100 each. But, we got them for $50 each.

Topher, I assume that you mean the washie that we moved in May 2006 to the middle of the yard.

Well, last year it put on something like 5 large fronds and hit about 7 foot tall.

BUT, I had a little accident this fall, whiich was totally my fault for forgetting to do something. That something was, no, those somethings were:

1) mount the blow dryer (heater) properly, don't just leave it hanging

2) install a 15 amp service onto the 35 amp that was feeding that area.

So, what happened was that because I didn't mount the dryer properly (forgot) it moved to the plastic and its air intake got blocked.

It burned up. BUT, because I had also forgotten to install a 15amp fusebox. So the dryer not only burned up, but the wires melted and continued to burn/glow whatever.

So like what I guess is about 1 or 2 weeks later when I noticed black on the plastic, I figured it was black fungus. It's when I finally opened things up to check on their condition, that I saw what had happened.

Of course, the black was the smoke and of course, it covered the entire inside and all the palms.

On this Washy, all of its outter fronds where singged so I had to cut them off.

Also, due to this little mishap, the palms inside expereinced -12C (10F). But this washie and the other large one, on their first year, also experienced -8C (18F), which I think only cold hardened them.

So the -12C seems to have had a good effect on the palms in that structure, because the washy has already opened up a fresh new large frond. I was shocked (sorry, no pun intended). LOL

The other palms, in pots inside the structure, are also putting on new growth.

So, you'll understand if I hold off on posting that picture for a bit! ROFL! ;)

Of course, I will post a pic when we remove the protection, which I hope might be in 2-3 weeks IF THIS FREAKY WEATHER settles down! Geeze! -8C (18F) this morning... last year at this time, we has like 10C (50F).

:)

Nice palm. It looks like the green type. I don't know how they grow in a pot, but in the ground fairly big in a short period of time. I have one I planted that size in 2005 and today it still has no wood but its fronds are huge and reach to about 12'.

Hey Blondboy,

How's your Washy?

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I think those palms are just great but I can't bring myself to pay that big of a price, when I know it could die when I have to bring it in the winter. I guess I will have to stick with my Windmill palms, and my Queen palms, which I know most people don't like them here but I think my Queens are pretty, just not sure how much longer I can keep them in the winter, they are getting big.

Hey blondboy, I saw a bunch of spindles at Holland park a couple of weeks ago for 39.99. They were very healthy too. I also saw some decent sized triangle palms at Humber this weekend. I've never seen larger triangle palms being sold. These had a fair bit of trunk but were around $70. That Bismark you got looks really nice too, where did you find that?