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Old Butia Carolina Beach, NC

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By frienduvafrond
in COLD HARDY PALMS

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Very nice!

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USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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I really do not know. I noticed it maybe ten years now. I'll have a wager at 40-50 years. One of the old guard.

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Beautiful! Most butia I’ve seen this month in NC are fried from the past winter. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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On 4/8/2018, 9:04:32, NC_Palms said:

Beautiful! Most butia I’ve seen this month in NC are fried from the past winter. 

Yeah I have a customer who is a traveling salesman. He said the Butia are fried from here to Charleston. Worst event in my 37 years of work. The Washingtonia could be used for telephone poles if they still used over head power lines. Good year to have a tree removal service.

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On 4/13/2018, 6:33:08, frienduvafrond said:

Yeah I have a customer who is a traveling salesman. He said the Butia are fried from here to Charleston. Worst event in my 37 years of work. The Washingtonia could be used for telephone poles if they still used over head power lines. Good year to have a tree removal service.

Its pretty sad. This has been a horrible winter for the Carolinas

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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10 hours ago, NC_Palms said:

Its pretty sad. This has been a horrible winter for the Carolinas

Horrible for everyone east of the Mississippi...

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Palms growing in my garden: Trachycarpus Fortunei, Chamaerops Humilis, Chamaerops Humilis var. Cerifera, Rhapidophyllum Hystrix, Sabal Palmetto 

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11 hours ago, Nj Palms said:

Didn't see any burnt pindos at sc/no border.

Same here in Upstate SC all the mature butia's made it through. Even my small 5 gallon made it with just a covering and later I added some heating lights.

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I have a friend in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area (Inland Horry County) and he sent me a bunch of palm pictures and like others are saying, there were no Butias fried at all. 

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On 5/2/2018, 8:07:17, Nj Palms said:

Didn't see any burnt pindos at sc/no border.

North of the Neuse River the pindos seemed to gotten the cold damage the worst. Near New Bern and Morehead City the older pindos looked fine but the newly planted and little ones were fried. I have not seen a healthy pindo north of New Bern though. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

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8 hours ago, NC_Palms said:

North of the Neuse River the pindos seemed to gotten the cold damage the worst. Near New Bern and Morehead City the older pindos looked fine but the newly planted and little ones were fried. I have not seen a healthy pindo north of New Bern though. 

Many , many burnt Butia here in wilmington. Many older ones did alright. The ones under canopy and near houses in microclimates, but more damage than I have ever witnessed. I live less than 50 miles from the SC border, I had to do some landscaping at Holden Beach which is about 30 miles from the SC border, those Butia faired no better. All of these are south of the Neuse. I hope to get down to Myrtle Beach soon and see for myself if they did better there. I will report back on that.

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On 5/22/2018, 7:14:23, frienduvafrond said:

Many , many burnt Butia here in wilmington. Many older ones did alright. The ones under canopy and near houses in microclimates, but more damage than I have ever witnessed. I live less than 50 miles from the SC border, I had to do some landscaping at Holden Beach which is about 30 miles from the SC border, those Butia faired no better. All of these are south of the Neuse. I hope to get down to Myrtle Beach soon and see for myself if they did better there. I will report back on that.

I just completely decapitated the one in my front yard over the weekend.  It is pushing something out of the center, but so far it is all just mostly dead tissue pushing up.  It was a beauty 5 months ago - it could've been on a postcard.  Lots of damage from the horrible January.  I even had to cut the lower branches off the trachy's.

 

If this winter is bad as well, I fear the butia won't make it.  There are a lot that'll be limping through the next year trying to recover.  There are even some Florida sabals that aren't pushing any spears yet.  Wild stuff.

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