What type of 'palm' tree is this please?

Gingermac

Love this tree, and I would love to buy some for my garden. Can anyone identify what type it is please?

BTW it is outside the old Cherrytree restaurant in Killaloe-Ballina, now closed. There are more than one and seem very happy.

gozunda

Gingermac wrote: »

Love this tree, and I would love to buy some for my garden. Can anyone identify what type it is please?

BTW it is outside the old Cherrytree restaurant in Killaloe-Ballina, now closed. There are more than one and seem very happy.

Photo?

Harry Palmr

Gingermac wrote: »

Love this tree, and I would love to buy some for my garden. Can anyone identify what type it is please?

BTW it is outside the old Cherrytree restaurant in Killaloe-Ballina, now closed. There are more than one and seem very happy.

You'll have to post a url link as you don't have enough posts for a direct photo link I think.

Gingermac

Sorry, the photo was too big, I had to resize, but I think it is there now!

standardg60

Trachycarpus fortunei

the hedgeman

It looks to be a old tree because most kinds of palm trees were damaged by snow and frost in 2010 but grow again from the ground

Gingermac

Thanks very much for the replies, going to try to buy a couple as I love them.

I don't know how old it is but I have known it there since 2007 when it already looked quite tall, and have seen it survive the thick snow we had a few years ago, without any protection. It seems exceptionally hardy.

NIMAN

My mother had one of those in her garden for years, and the real bad freeze of 2010 killed it off...........or so we thought.

It died off, and we cut it right back from about 12ft tall to about 12 inches in height, just to see what would happen.

Its back to its former glory again, and huge!

standardg60

NIMAN wrote: »

My mother had one of those in her garden for years, and the real bad freeze of 2010 killed it off...........or so we thought.

It died off, and we cut it right back from about 12ft tall to about 12 inches in height, just to see what would happen.

Its back to its former glory again, and huge!

I would suspect you are talking about a cordyline there.

NIMAN

standardg60 wrote: »

I would suspect you are talking about a cordyline there.

Well it looks very like the one in the attached picture. Do they have similar stems?

Pawwed Rig

I have a small one of these in my garden which I think I have identified as New Zealand Cabbage Palm or Cordyline Australis.
And spent some time tidying it up today I found it had 5 trunks. 3 were established and 2 reasonably new ones. I cut the new ones at the base (as I don't have that much space).
TBH I am not sure if I want them. They grew from the neighbours trees spreading seeds (before we moved in).
They also seem to spread fairly easily as I have a few new ones growing.
Would anyone want the new ones? They are small enough that it would be easy to relocate them (around 30cm)
I will be just pulling them up and binning them otherwise.

Lumen

NIMAN wrote: »

Well it looks very like the one in the attached picture. Do they have similar stems?

No, the cordyline has a bare trunk and the leaves sprout in a more round pattern than fanlike.

blackbox

It has the fronds in a fan shape so I think it is a Chusan palm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachycarpus_fortunei

Prefect_1998

Gingermac wrote: »

Thanks very much for the replies, going to try to buy a couple as I love them.

I don't know how old it is but I have known it there since 2007 when it already looked quite tall, and have seen it survive the thick snow we had a few years ago, without any protection. It seems exceptionally hardy.

Where are you going to get them, i would also like a few but seem really expensive > 200

Shefwedfan

Sorry to jump on thread, but I have two of these in garden and no idea what they are? we bought house and they where in garden when we bought it

Just wondering if they are the same?

strandroad

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Sorry to jump on thread, but I have two of these in garden and no idea what they are? we bought house and they where in garden when we bought it

Just wondering if they are the same?

Cordyline Australis I think, but seeing more of the trunk would help!

Shefwedfan

strandroad wrote: »

Cordyline Australis I think, but seeing more of the trunk would help!

Thank you

Sorry picture is shocking :-)

Will take one after the rain

Do you cut these back or just let them grow?

standardg60

Definitely Cordylines, you usually just pull off the brown leaves to keep them tidy.
They may be cut back to any height and they will regrow but don't think that's necessary here