Trachycarpus nanus 5b Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliage

Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliage is an excellent long lasting addition to flower arrangements

forming a wild-looking clump that reminds me of those delightfully silly

Expect a 3' tall x 5' wide clump at maturity

Athyrium filix-femina is an easy-to-grow

Pyrrosia lingua cultivars hate growing flat and must be planted on a slope to thrive in cold climates

Trachycarpus nanus 5b Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliageTrachycarpus nanus is one of the rarest of the hardy windmill palms. Our oldest garden plant, which has matured at 3' tall x 4' wide, dates from 2006, but it's been over 15 years since we had any to share. This very rare dwarf windmill palm, with glaucous green foliage, was re discovered in 1993, by Gibbons and Spanner in Yunnan, China, on dry slopes above 6500' elevation. Trachycarpus nanus doesn't form an above ground trunk. When the plants mature