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I think it’s called another day in paradise! I could not handle a climate unfavourable for tropicals, it’s bad enough I can’t grow a lot of super tropicals but to have 0 degrees Celsius and below with frosts no thank you. I would sell up and move, iam lucky I can get away growing what I have for now, I think the game changer was that’s there is so many new exotic species available now as compared to years ago.

That's a shame.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338620461 Evidence that it dropped below 30F in coastal Collier county

You can give me nothing below 10, that’s my own personal preference!

I reckon those odds are pretty good! Would be super keen to give them a go, that's for sure. Great idea to put in mass plantings for seed production...that was also the idea behind my little Lepidorrachis plantation. I'm surprised that these haven't been split from the Isalo form yet, clearly a very different beast.

I also planted this little trunking form C. radicalis to go with my non-trunking ones:

Pretty disappointed today when I went to Laguna Gloria and saw that almost all of the palms had been chopped down.

Cibolo TX Post Winter storm report: Temps in my neck of the woods hit 19F or 20F, with some freezing rain. As usual, I think the freezing precipitation was the bigger problem. C. radicalis with East Northeast exposure and partial overhead protection from the eave of the house. P. dactylifera was almost immediately dead. It was about 3 ft in overall height and very healthy going into this event. I covered it, but not until it was already wet. So it's spear pulled almost immediately after the freeze. It's leaves were brown within a few days. I cut the trunk down and there was no living tissue left, despite treating it with hydrogen peroxide within a couple of days of the ice. Butia took a little longer to show damage. It was covered with a large patio umbrella, but it blew off during the storm. It was a couple of weeks before the newest leaves started losing color. Spear pulled, and I have been treating it with H2O2 as well. No signs of a new spear yet. Even my S. mexicanas (No protection) have a leaf or two that have lost their color. This surprised me: My Washingtonia that grows like a weed looks pretty much perfect with no protection: Not all Washingtonians are created equal though. This is what another one just a couple of houses down from mine looks like: Small trachycarpus F x Ws took no damage with a bucket to cover them:

You can claim it for free. We'll call it a door prize.

Yeah Cincinnati! The palm bug has arrived! Siting and microclimates are your friend. Also, bricks as thermal mass!

With forecasts looking good, I made my first planting moves of 2026. I removed my dead papaya tree and fishtail palm. (may they rest in peace) I replaced them with a couple of golden cane palms I grew from seed that my daughter collected at Discovery Cove on a vacation in 2021. Like the fishtail last year, the golden canes are getting big enough that I don't want to keep moving them around in pots forever. So, they will be a nice annual near the pool this year: There are a couple of Rajapuri banana stumps there alternating with the palms as well. The bananas have shown just a centimeter or two of growth since I chopped them down low, so they definitely survived the winter.

From livestream today by YouTuber ResortTV1. The large Pandanus in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom doesn’t look good. Mast trees also look rough but I see a little green farther down.

@Sean Osborne there's just one species - Nannorrhops ritchiana although there is a blue/silver form native to Iran and a green form from Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India from high elevations that is extremely cold hardy in dry climates. Where is this palm located?

Ok how much is your spicata and how big is it?

Mid-February 2026 Here’s an update on my two Phoenix canariensis in Ålesund, Norway (62°N). We’re nearly through the coldest winter here since 2010, and I’m happy to say the palms are looking great. They’ve only been protected with simple boxes, plus some fleece and bubble wrap during the coldest days—nothing more. So far, they’ve come through the winter remarkably well.

Just added to eBay- Chrysalidocarpus × lafazamanga Dypsis nodifera (cool hardly plant from seed I collected in habitat)

I agree this winter has been terrible. We actually had a low of -10!!!!!!!!!! At my location And some other nights that were in the negatives. All of my palms went unprotected except a few but the protection I gave probably didn't help a lot and a lot of them are really damaged but they survive. I did upload a YouTube video of how they look so if you want to watch it I'll post the link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVtWDw6qQ1Q

I believe this is a Nannorrhops, but am unsure of the species. I'm hoping the bloom might help with a positive ID. The bloom is the center stalk Anyone know this tree?

Well since it is a balmy 50°F right now, curiosity got the best of me and I decided to at least take a look at the sabal minor. I know it's hard to see in the picture since lighting is dark, but it looks really good, I don't see any foliage burn or anything (I know sabals have very hardy fronds, so that doesn't necessarily mean we are out of the woods). The center "spear" which is basically a half-opened frond felt solid and looked flawless. I didn't uncover the needle palm because it is still half-covered with snow that I didn't want to get in the crown and melt then freeze again. The pup which is very tiny - 1 strip leaf and a spear - managed to get outside of the frost cloth (don't know how long it has been that way), and it seemed solid and didn't show any foliage burn, so I think that's a good sign. On the other hand, should I look to uncover these for a while starting Monday? The forecast says we are supposed to get rain/snow around freezing tomorrow overnight, but then temps look pretty good for about a week. I think it would be good for them to uncover and get some fresh air/sunlight. My concern is with all the snow that it could melt and get water in the crown which could refreeze when temps go back down below freezing (this is an unseasonable warm up). Curious what you guys think would be best. Pic below of 10 day forecast in apple weather app. Sabal Minor: Needle Palm: Forecast:

Safest thing to do is to repot with fresh potting mix designed for potted palms (palm balanced NPK+Mg, Mn,Fe) instead of adding your own fertilizer. If you do add too much to one, take it out, flush the root system with water and repot. They can be saved (saved a tiny pindo seedling I accidentally added too much to) For mine, I usually keep an eye over the growth rate over a period of weeks, and if I see little to no change in growth I'll try microdosing palm fertilizer to see if it progresses positively or negatively. Or I'll use a no burn pledge type safe palm fertilizer in a slightly lower dose than recommended. Amazon has some good liquid potted palm fertilizer products that you can underdose with, and Home depot/Lowes usually carry regular 3 month palm specific fertilizer that you can use for slow release, or to mix your own potting mix with. Hope that helps.

You can try and spray it with peroxide once a week until it gets warm outside and it may have a small chance.

Thanks for the reply. It certainly is devastating here, for people like us anyway, but most people don't even see it really. Freeze damage, what freeze damage? I haven't had the time to take photos of the devastation in my yard and proximate to me. We have had a steady stream of visitors that wanted to hang out around the pool and lanai to escape the cold weather up north. Great timing on their part! Tomorrow, my wife, who is the steadier hand, will hopefully get some photos of the devastation that I will share. I have already started clearing and cleaning the devastation but only select specimens that were fried like my forest of Rostrata and my large number of Megaskepasma that I usually take down in the spring anyway. The Rostrata will regenerate and the Megaskepasma merely defoliated. The lack of leaves made it somewhat easier to take down this year. Cheers and Happy Weekend!

Here’s the one in Mt Joseph University Cincinnati, OH This was planted in 2000 it was cut down for unknown reasons by the Landscapers around 2020~ and yeah came back strong! Somerset opens at 2PM so we will check that out later!

You had the benefit of ground heat and snow cover but many butia die of wet cold

If it didn't get too cold it may still live.