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Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Fred SC on December 20, 2024, 4:15 pm Here are some Mature Trachycsrpus after Helene blew down trees .and the area was cleaned up and ‘ viola’ palms ! I had never seen them due to all the foliage. https://i.ibb.co/fY5c0G8/IMG-6016.jpg

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by AJ Mid TN on December 20, 2024, 5:17 pm, in reply to "Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Some really nice ones!

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Fred SC on December 21, 2024, 7:30 am, in reply to "Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " AJ, those are very near me. If Helene hadn’t blown d add ll trees down. I would probably never knew they were there.

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Alvin, z6 on December 21, 2024, 8:49 pm, in reply to "Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Perhaps, the other trees that were downed, served as windbreaks for the Windmills. They look unaffected by the hurricane force winds.

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Fred SC on December 22, 2024, 4:49 am, in reply to "Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Alvin, hurricane force winds don’t seem to hurt Trachys much. Mine in front y ad rd are unprotected snd were unscathed in yo mph wind gusts for several hours! Palm fronds are kinda designed for just those high winds.

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Alvin, z6 on December 22, 2024, 10:51 am, in reply to "Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Being quite far from the coast, your palms sustained lower wind speeds, than more coastal areas. Windmills do have more compact heads, than many feather palms, like coconuts,, but other fan palms, like Sabals were blown over on the coast. Palms dont have the root or branch structure that the trees that were felled, had.

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Rob N TN on December 22, 2024, 8:21 pm, in reply to "Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Fred those palms are just beautiful.

Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene Posted by Fred SC on December 23, 2024, 5:44 am, in reply to "Re: Mature Trachycarpus fortunei exposed by Hurricane Helene " Michal’s gracias, amigo. Las palmas son muy hermosa !

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