Trachycarpus nanus North American Native Plants adding great color to the

adding great color to the summer woodland garden

it needs no supplemental moisture during summer droughts

although flower buds were killed when winter temperatures dropped below 5 degrees F

the 30" tall stalks top the flat rosettes of wide glossy green foliage

The much narrower than normal

Trachycarpus nanus North American Native Plants adding great color to theTrachycarpus nanus is one of the rarest of the hardy windmill palms. Our oldest garden plant, which has matured at 3' tall x 4' wide, dates from 2006, but it's been over 15 years since we had any to share. This very rare dwarf windmill palm, with glaucous green foliage, was re discovered in 1993, by Gibbons and Spanner in Yunnan, China, on dry slopes above 6500' elevation. Trachycarpus nanus doesn't form an above ground trunk. When the plants mature