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Right now it's 50 degrees here in needmore Pennsylvania the extended forecast looks pretty good except a couple days but i'm not complaining The state of Pennsylvania has like an invisible line of which side is Warm and which side is cold. It's cool how the jet stream works.

On tropicals like coconuts, I do it as a preventative regardless of spear color.

Good question, and one only you can ultimately answer. For me, the palms here that have survived I'm giving the time to attempt a comeback. They may eventually croak, but that's life. Anything that goes will either just be removed and returned to the yard, or replaced by something bulletproof at 20F. No one would blame any of us for just starting from scratch, though.

Where in Tampa are you?

Possibility that comes to mind would be Pond Apple, but need to see some leafy close ups to be more certain. Fluted trunks i can see on some of them diminishes -but doesn't completely- rule out the possibility of these being one of the Mangroves.

It seemed like a good idea on paper, but you won't know unless you try. I think the weather is too erratic with such extremes. As much as I wanted to get olive trees again, you really have to adhere to the "Right plant, Right spot" mentality to succeed especially in Texas.

I think it might have a chance, the petioles still have some green to them and temps are warming up again. It might not make it but I don't think it's necessarily 100% a goner.

where are planting, texas? and how large of coverage are you looking for? couple recommendations would be sweetbay magnolia, wax myrtle or a native state shrub.

my Areca palms (Ihave two more that look the same as this pic) are green at the bottom, two spears of the tallest fronds pulled but I may have pulled too hard and jusr broke em cause they were white and seemed healthy. They were about five feet tall. All I did was cover them. No heat added. The birds of paradise are all pushing the new leaves. And I covered them as well but no additional heat Low was 23.5 F in my yard

Hello, what are these trees growing at the edge of the water? Thanks!

Indeed, the most common practice promoting the widespread of the pest is leaving infested palms in place. That was the fatal mistake in Europe. Authorities had let the responsibility of disposal to the citizens in private garden, without whatsoever monitoring and inspection, publicly planted dead palms had been left standing often for many months if not years. Just grave, unforgivable mistakes! Municipality or state authorities should have undertaken the task of removal in BOTH private and public and those actions should have been subsidized by central government. It was just a matter of paying now in the beginning of outbreak than paying multiple times more in future. I am very confident that such practice would have paid off . The alternative is simply letting infested palms become incubation spots for new and more vermin.

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It seemed like a good idea on paper, but you won't know unless you try. I think the weather is too erratic with such extremes. As much as I wanted to get olive trees again, you really have to adhere to the "Right plant, Right spot" mentality to succeed especially in Texas.

I typically go with daily while it is warm until the fizzing stops. That might be overboard, though.

Yessir, I have three of them. I planted one in the NW, NE and SW areas of my lot. They have not been thrilled with the regular frosts, but so far have grown back from around 27F ok. The extended 22.5F may be different. I will see in a few weeks if they start growing new buds. I like that they are relatively small diameter and have really interesting leaves. If they survive this winter I will probably plant more.

Yeah Darold, that stuff is a pain. Impossible to eradicate, so I just take small areas at a time and dig up the “bulbs”. Invariably, a little piece will break off and I’ll be at it again the following season. 😩

after the freeze its not totally dead but would look bad for a long time and i pulled of many pedioles and made countless mistake since it was my first palm. and it didnt grow for the first 4 months. should i replace it? spear is a little burned but not fulled dead yet

it is a fear but there are plenty of infested trees within a few hundred meters to me so they’re already near by.

The fun of seeds, Zamia inermis, Z. pygmae, Z. furfuracea and Z. integrifolia (south Florida)

I have the same issue with seeds/ seedlings . Most are environmental victims . I keep the pots under the large palms for protection , whatever the the garden gets …the potted ones get . The exception is when the dry winds blow , I water the small pots more often. What had helped with mine is adding an orchid mix with vermiculite to the soil for a coarse mix . Harry This is my spot where my newborns are kept . Under the young Rhopalostylus and the mature Syagrus . You can see the small pots next to the Syagrus trunk and under the frond of the Rhopie . I have had a few varieties do well there , even in very rainy conditions. I can line up several small pots here for germinating and growing. . I have no room for a greenhouse…….YET! I am working on a possible solution . Harry

It's always the same thing, isn't it? Water. Too much and they die but if you let them dry, they also die.

This is the first time I’ve seen this fine leaf form with pinnate fronds and I have to say it does look very different to typical arenbergiana at similar size (or the similar nationsiana which I can’t really tell apart). My seedlings are a bit behind Richard’s although growing quickly. For reference, here’s my C arenbergiana x nationsiana at a similar size. Only then did the fronds start to split and leaflets were very wide (late 2021, early 2022). They still are (last photo from Jan 2025).

DM sent for Hyphaene coriacea seeds.

At the beginning I too was a serial killer of germinated seeds

Xanthorrhoea species, possibly X johnsonii?