The freeze: perspecitve from two gardens

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The first set of pictures come from the garden of my grandmother. She lives in Chino, CA. We recorded a low of 17F and sustained below freezing temps for four nights in a row. Here are the results.

Dypsis decari, onilihensis, and ambositrae completed scorched, but with firm bases and crownshafts two weeks postfreeze

Ravenea glauca had about 30 to 50% freeze damage on leaves. Hard to tell from picture but the damage appears as intermittant necrotic lesions.

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Parajubea cocoides has about 30% scorch on all leaves, overall it looks good.

Sabal yapa came out unscathed. This palm absolutely thrives here in the inland empire.

Jubea and Thrithrinax campestris as expected look perfect. These palms will also be posted in the for sale forum.

All other palms in the garden were not damaged at all.

These include: Thrithrinax acanathacoma, Chamearops humilus and var. cerifera. Phoenix daclifera X reclinata, Livistonia decipiens, Dypsis decipiens, Sabal uresana, Sabal 'Riverside', Brahea clara and edulis.

The next garden will be followed up on my next post.

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The next garden is my parents. They live on the top-middle of a west facing coastal slope in Carlsbad, CA. Probably due to the fact they are almost at the top of the hill, they did not experience hardly any damage to any of their palms. We do not have a high/low temp gauge here so I do not know how cold it did get.

Roystonea oleracea with 50% leaf scorch but still looking beautiful.

View from the front yard.

Surprisingly Phychosperma macarthurii not showing any damage

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Ravenea 'Kingaly' looking perfect.

Kentiopsis oliviformis with no damage. See Dean almost trunking!

Bismarkia nobilis green form showing lower leaf scorch

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Bismarkia nobilis silver form with no damage

Dypsis ambostitrae and an unidentified Ravenea( can anyone help on ID) looking perfect.

I was really worried about these two specimens in the cold weather but they managed to survive.

I guess the cold air draining away made all the difference.

[Alicehunter2000]

Dypsis Deciphens and Bismarkia silvers looking good from a low of 17 degrees!!!! WOW!! And some of those other palms.......I thought teens would be the death knell for some of these. Are you sure your thermometer isn's broken

[MASOALA JASON]

Again, I want to emphasize the 17F low was recorded in Chino from the pictures of the first garden. All the plants in the photos from the second garden probably did not see a low much below freezing.

 Diamond Bar had a recorded low of 19F and is on the upslope of Chino. Chino is located at one of the lowest spots in the valley. It is easy to see how 17F is possible. So I do not think the temp gauge is broken. I did think is was broken at first myself though.

[Dypsisdean]

Jason,

Great perspectives. If you have a chance, it would be great to add some short documentation in the freeze data forum on those ones you have hard data on.

What amazed me the most was your P. macarthurii. Everyone in town that I saw in the '90 freeze was completely melted.

And BTW --- nice Kentiopsis.

Any idea where you are going yet?

[Kathy]

Jason, great and most informative pics.  Amazing what is growing in Chino!  Definately encouraging for us here.  Keep us updated on their recovery.

[Tad]

nice pups, it didnt get tooooo cold because the madagascar palm and cardboard palm(yes, I no neither is really a palm)

dont exhibit any burn and madagascars will usually defoliate here when it gets nippy!!