The current period, it must be confessed, is not the gayest of the year, days are short the weather is cold and damp, the gray everywhere. The garden is empty, there is little adornment apart from a few plants in fe u illage persistent or winter flowering. The recent episode of snow was at least the merit of breaking the monotony and create a beautiful setting but it is good that all this snow to melt finally given inconvenience caused in many areas.
In my exotic garden, too, the show is not very encouraging. Small jellies have blown the castor bean plant, the cannas, which have been folded down and the leaves of banana in Japan (Musa basjoo). The former replant next year, as the banana, I'm almost relieved that the freeze destroyed each year the aerial part, this limits its expansion, which is amazing. Who would have thought he would reach an annual level of nearly three meters, it starts every time the strain, perfectly indifferent to the drought.
Perennials chilly as velvetleaf, or Brugmansia hibiscus moscheutos were turned down, mulched and covered with veil of winter. The lantanas were dug up and overwintered indoors. I also covered the oleanders of the ground, the shrub Solanum (after folded), the only Phoenix canariensis and finally I have left the plant to which I want most, a rather large specimen of Dasylirion glaucophyllum.
Curiously, the three palm trees in the garden stand out more now that he does are over the burgeoning crop of summer. All winter, they will make a welcome note of exoticism. My only regret is that I never could still admire under the snow. They were slow to settle, their growth was slow in the early years but after almost 8 years they have respectable dimensions. For three or four years, I took the trouble to protect what is possible today. Attractive all year round, hardy, durable and easy to grow, they can be acclimated in many areas. I will come back.
Even if the weather is quite poor right now and even though winter is fast approaching, the fact of watching them always gives me much pleasure and a certain sense of escape. I miss the place, yet there are many other palm species are all very beautiful that is sure to please in my garden.
my palm I photographed two weeks ago. Their fins keep these beautiful shades of green all winter .
Trachycarpus fortunei (Palm China)
Chamaerops Excelsa 
Sabal Minor
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