COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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We had a low of 22-23 on Christmas night, the fronds went 100% exposed while the bud and down was protected. Out of the three, only one seems to be having minor damage. The backyard Queen is so far showing what could be cold damage on the very top of the fronds, not the leaf tips, but jut the top of the fronds in general. It looks strange to me and has just started appearing a couple of days ago. I got some pics this morning, but the lighting was not great, so i will try to get more tomorrow morning and post them. This Queen put on the most robust growth this summer, having put out at least 5-6 new fronds, also fattening up quite a bit as well. I also noticed the Li…
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2021 is Close
by Quasarecho- 1 follower
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Happy New Year! Photo from today while visiting Fort Walton Beach. FL.
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Chamaedora microspadix
by TonyDFW- 1 follower
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This is the 4th growing season for this Chamaedora microspadix in Dallas. Zone 8b. it seems to want to grow as a single trunk. My other same species palms Produce more suckers. What is your experience with this palm? Thanks.
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Mulching Palm
by James Robert- 8 replies
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Getting ready for cold snap in the next few days, Have my palms mulched lightly with pine needles. I'm concerned about pindo palm. Should I add more pine mulch or is there a better mulch to use. Thanks.
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What washingtonia is this
by climate change virginia- 13 replies
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Hi I was wondering what washingtonia is this https://www.lowes.com/pd/National-Plant-Network-1-Gallon-Washingtonia-Palm-N-A/1003237636 I am probably going to buy this in the future.
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What is a protective canopy?
by climate change virginia- 4 replies
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I was wondering what is a protective canopy I always hear about it making palms more hardy. Thanks
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Pure-ish Robusta
by ahosey01- 3 replies
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Anyone got any idea where to find pure-ish W. robusta in the Southwest? Feels wrong that I live in AZ and don’t have one and don’t even know where to get one I can trust is actually robusta. I’ll drive if I need to.
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Rhapidophyllum hystrix
by tjwalters- 1 follower
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A few pictures of my second largest needle palm growing in MD, z7a on the northwest corner of the garage. Planted as a small palm about 12 years ago. In the past my largest needle has produced many viable seeds, but in recent years my needles have been producing only male flowers. This year this palm has produced a few seeds. Note the old male flowers around the fruits. Most folks think needles are either male or female, but they can produce male, female and hermaphroditic flowers on the same plant.
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Sabal Minor and New Member
by Quasarecho- 4 replies
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Howdy All! Ran across this site as I was looking into hardy (semi-hardy in Indiana) palms. What a wealth of info! I feel like the Bee Girl from the Blind Mellon video (and I'll bet you'd never thought Blind Mellon would have been referenced here) when she spotted her like-minded friends. Anyway I decided to take a break this week and go hunting diamonds at Crater of Diamonds in Arkansas before heading to the FL panhandle tomorrow. I thought it might be of interest that I saw a Sabal Minor in Clark County AR while zipping thru in the car. It was growing close to the road at the edge of a pine forest. From what I've read on the site, I know they grow further South…
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Please. No Single Digits This Winter.
by GregVirginia7- 12 replies
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Here’s the final touches to the palmscape...Medi now has the black frost cloth “shroud“ I’ll unpin and yank down when we hit the teens...the Trachy gets its final layer of frost cloth (already on top of a 3” layer of mulch) so I think we’re good...the Needle palms spent the whole time laughing at my efforts as usual. Hope all had a good Christmas and wishing everyone the very best in 2021.
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Zones -pushing the edge
by konarikcy- 13 replies
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Hello all For those of us who do not live in the States, the USDA Hardiness zone guidelines are a useful indication of what may grow in our country. I live in Nicosia Cyprus where we have relatively mild winters for most months - it is October and we are currently 36oC with 20oC(night). But it will suddenly change and by January, it will be continuous cold, a little wet with possibly zero some nights which would normally I think put me on a 9b bordering 10a zone. However this can be misleading as I have found out the hard way. We have months and months of Mediterranean summer reaching 46oC this year (blame global warming). This means that the USDA zone alone …
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tallest hardy palm to zone 7b 1 2
by climate change virginia- 2 followers
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I was wondering about some hardy tall palms to zone 7b thanks.
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My Washy before and after 17F the morning of December 26th . It will continuee to get more bronzed in the next week . It's frond hardy to 24F and trunk hardy to probably 15F but it has seen 16F unprotected .
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Trachycarpus what kinda Christmas lights?
by Bill Nanaimo- 1 follower
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I’m just wondering if 7watt Christmas lights are ok to wrap around a small trachycarpus to keep it warm in 30-32. Temp
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Cold Sprouters (Stratification).
by DallasPalms- 4 replies
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So the other day I noticed a seedling come up, Wagnerianus x Princeps, after a few frosty nights... I brought them in for the three freezing nights but I cant help to wonder if the cooler temps inspired the late sprouter due to its traits leaning towards priceps - the others popped up late summer. I recently learned about Princeps. They usually take a long while to sprout and also may benefit from cold stratification... I looked again and noticed a second pindo seedling pop out of a shell, again post cooler temps... and so I think a list of cold sprouters may come in handy. Maybe it just too hot in a Texas summer for some seeds? I read that several Sabals perfor…
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Cali fan palm
by iamjv- 0 replies
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For any W. Filifera fans out there, like me, here is a interesting article on them with a few interesting tid-bits you may not know about this palm.... happy reading. https://www.palmspringslife.com/palm-tree-key/ Jv
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Windmill Palm fronds bending
by Palmlover_78- 7 replies
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Hey are the fronds on a windmill suppose to do this? I thought they stay fully erect...Thanks
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New Mature Additions to Our Yard
by WestCoastGal- 35 replies
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Wanted to share the latest additions to our yard which were installed on Friday a.m. before the temps rocketed upwards during this extremely hot spell we are having. Hopefully the maturity of the palms will carry them through fine. Historically our inland valley which has some marine influence has temps anywhere from low 20sF to around 113F (a few years ago). We were in the mid 20s last winter overnight for about 12 hours when the winds ceased. Despite a current 9b designation we are trying to plant for Zone 9a for the most part. Our nights generally cool off to the 50s-60s during the summer, although it was in the low 80s around 10pm last night. The x…
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Any Hope in Saving This Palm?
by Alex High- 6 replies
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Hello everyone, I was in Columbia, South Carolina today and there was a massive 40 foot tall T. fortunei with a lot of volunteers underneath. I attempted to yank one out, but I didn’t pull the roots out! Is there any way of caring for this young palm so that it can grow back its roots? Thank you! PalmsUSA
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Cold hardy banana plant
by charlotte palm guy- 2 followers
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I planted 2 cold hardy banana pants last spring at about a foot tall for each. Both somehow exploded into the height you see in the pic over a single Summer. They grew about 10 feet in one season. Is this even possible? In Spring will the just pick back up where the left off? As you can see the leaves are all dead right now. I think the morning sun and partial shade really helped these explode. One of the 2 pants was in full sun a year before and didn’t grow much at all so I moved it to side of house that you see in pic. Charlotte, NC located
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Windmill palm bristles bending (Charlotte, NC)
by charlotte palm guy- 1 follower
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I live in Charlotte and the most recent couple of fonds that have popped up on my Windmill Palm have bent bristles. All bristles are bent about half way up on new fonds. The tree was planted about 2 years ago and grew like crazy last summer. It’s about 8 feet tall from base to top of fonds. Is the bending normal? Why all the sudden are the coming in bent? It seems fine otherwise and is next to house in partial sun. Maybe due to cold weather we have had?
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Hello people. I decided to take a few pictures and a video of a couple palmettos (thought they could of been Sabal Birminghams but they actually look like the BHI or SC variety - but be free to correct me) at the entrance in an exurban subdivision near Benson, NC, just out of the piedmont. I been seeing them for years when I passed by this place, so I had to finally video document them for you guys. Sorry for the low light, I took the pictures around sunset. They look a decent size but I was told by a resident who been there since 2004 that those trees been there when she moved there - so I'm assuming the trees are 16 years old or more. However, this part of Johnston Coun…
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The Incredible Massive and Old Needle Palm at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
by Alex High- 8 replies
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Hello Palm Lovers, I went back to the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. yesterday and visited the incredible needle palm which is 50+ year old and over 10 feet tall in the Asian Garden section. I just wanted to post some pictures of it because it stands tall as a testament to the long-term survival of these and other species in the D.C. area and the Mid-Atlantic as a whole. The Arboretum is a haven for exotic plant lovers and is home to some to an incredible exotic plant collection. Feel free to let me know of any other long-term palms that you grow in the Mid-Atlantic region. Thank you! PalmsUSA The trunk is MASSIVE.…
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Small vs Larger palm for zone pushing
by mdsonofthesouth- 27 replies
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Ok sorry if this topic has been beaten to death, but I am coming up short with google queries. Late last summer I planted a 3 gallon chamerops humilis I bought on a whim at HD that has been nearly unprotected (incandescent rope light around the soil not touching the plant and mulched up a little) in my zone 7a. Its doing very well and actually never stopped growing through winter. It saw brief lows bellow 15F and one extended sub 20F for a couple days with some minor burning but no pull and good growth. So a 3 gallon grown in Miami did well in z7a which seems to contradict some peoples theories. Well fast forward to last week I bought, again on a whim (see a …
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