Last year must have been a good year for Trachycarpus as many of the palms in our garden are laden down with seeds.
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We tend to ignore the palm seeds, usually cutting off any the birds, mice or squirrels haven't taken once we get round to tidying up palms later in spring. In the past few years this has meant a small number of seedlings appearing under the palms each year. However given the abundance of seeds on them this year I think we may end up with a whole forest of them.
Still that makes a change from weeding out sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) seedlings that turn up in their thousands every year!
Gaz
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Wow! You could start your own specialty plant nursery!
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DeleteA forest of palms sounds delightful. The black/blue seeds are attractive.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds wonderful, wouldn't mind that!
DeleteI love seeing blooming and seeding palms. They are so dramatic , and you are spot on Gaz, people tend to look at the foliage instead of the blooms--a reverse of the usual !
ReplyDeleteThose big bunches are rather attractive isn't it?
DeleteFunny this spring is the first year mine has a mass of dark blue seeds too, and I can already see this year’s “bloom-claws” starting to emerge.
ReplyDeleteMust be a good year for them for both locations!
DeleteI'm sure if you had the space there are many people that would happily take baby Trachycarpus plants off your hands! Tree ferns are a glorious plant and those seeds are so attractive ... unlike the seedlings in my patch which are usually little plants I don't want like the hundreds of foxgloves I've been weeding out recently!
ReplyDeleteWe will let the seedlings grow a little then start to pot them up. It will be nice to share them with other gardeners.
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