In recent years the American sweetgum, Freeman maple and Chinese windmill palm have become very popular.

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms including Trachycarpus fortunei (Chinese Windmill Palm) and Needle Palms would work quite well in the landscape.

A botanist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he grows dwarf palmettos, needle palms, cabbage palms and Chinese windmill palms in temperatures that can hover just above zero.

A recent trend since the Hardiness rezoning is the discovery that certain tropical plants such as the Japanese Fiber Banana tree and Chinese Windmill Palm can grow in Amherst with little to no protection.

It is sided by numerous varieties of trees, including poplars, plane trees, white poplar, blue Atlas cedar from the mountains of north Africa, weeping willows and common willow, lime trees, horse chestnut, evergreen oak, lime trees and a Chinese windmill palm among others.

It has a woodland garden, and a walled garden and a terrace garden with an avenue of Chusan palms.

It has a Woodland Garden and a Walled Garden and also Terrace Garden with its stunning avenue of Chusan palms.

The most common species in cultivation is Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan palm or windmill palm), which is, in cultivated range, the northernmost palm species in the world.

Bananas grow in the Overbeck's garden, where the lush exotica - Chusan palms, olive groves and fuchsias - thrive in a microclimate warmed by the sheltering South Ham hills.

The gardens contain wide range of ornamental trees and shrubs, including Chusan palms, tulip trees, mulberry, dawn redwood, swamp cypress, Chinese dogwood, Adam's laburnum, common walnut, Oxydendrum arboreum, and various dwarf conifers.

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms, including Trachycarpus Fortunei (Chinese Windmill Palm) and Needle Palms, would work quite well in the landscape, these plants having survived for many years also in other parts of coastal New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.