Trachycarpus fortunei Bulgaria Aucuba quarter-sized flowers (purple with peach

quarter-sized flowers (purple with peach tips) can be found hugging the ground in January

you may want to remove the old flower stalks when they finish in late spring

but slow-growing palm

macrophylla

star-shaped purple flowers that cluster around the stem in late July and August

Trachycarpus fortunei Bulgaria Aucuba quarter-sized flowers (purple with peachYou are absolutely not going to believe this, but here goes. Palm nut Kiril Donov noticed these 40 year old windmill palm trees growing in Plovdiv, Bulgaria that's right, the one near Romania. According to Donov, the original Trachycarpus fortunei 'Bulgaria' trees regularly see very cold temperatures, including a record 17 degrees F in 1993 see www. polarpalm. net. After growing these to a larger size, we are fairly confident they represent hybrids