COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Serenoa Repens water needs
by Rafael- 1 follower
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After reading several information sources (including some old threads here) i decided to almost turn off the sprinkle irrigation on my new serenoa (around 15 gal, potted and shade house grown in south of Spain - and planted in February) during the summer. What a mistake. It started to dry out and almost bit the dust. Thats when i decided to water it consistently. And after a couple of rain summer days it started to recover. Just one more thing: it is planted in a clay/sand mixed soil. I hope this helps someone in the future
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Hows that for a Butia?
by Laaz- 1 reply
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Local Butia.
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Some classic cold hardy palms
by willials- 4 replies
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Here are some of my palms that made it through the last few winters here in Puyallup (near Tacoma/Seattle), WA...
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AN acquaintance I just met was sharing some plants. He has some beautiful S. mexicannas that were bearing seed and literally around the trunks where the mower couldn't reach and he hadn't weed wacked was about a 2+ inch ring of this years seedlings. SO thick it looked liked turf grass. I mentioned that I'd love to have a few of them if only they would grow after being dug up. Well he grabs his spade and unceremoniously lifts up enough to fill several 3 gallon containers full of these things and says here. The TX gumbo they were growing in was a dry as set concrete and about as hard. I watered them down and over the next 2 weeks planted them in my landscape. It'…
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Sabal Palmetto
by Laaz- 4 replies
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Growing in a Live Oak. A few more seedling up about 20 feet.
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Butia ID please
by Jamesasb- 13 replies
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Hi, I have seedlings from last year and seeds from this year from this Butia. Can anyone suggest which species it is? Thanks James
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Chamaedorea Radicalis after zone 8a winter
by Brad Mondel- 28 replies
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Coming back strong after zone 8a winter. You can even see that it has inflorescences if you look close. I'm shocked at how hardy these are. This is located back at home in Myrtle Beach S.C There's a fried Santa Catarina queen in the bottom left that didn't make it. I'm not home to maintain the palms so they are not up to par.
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What are these phoenix hybrids? (identification please)
by Sandy Loam- 1 follower
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Hello. Below I am attaching 4 different phoenix hybrids, but I honestly can't tell what hybrids they are. Can you? I will post each photo as a separate post below so that anyone who wishes to comment can refer to the photo by its post number. All photos were taken recently in a town called Gainesville in northern, Florida, USA.
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Trunking Livistona in Columbia, SC?
by smithgn- 12 replies
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On another palm message board, I saw a post made by a guy that included various pictures of palms throughout the Columbia area. Most of them featured Butias, Palmettos, Serenoa Repens and some Filibustas. What really caught my eye was one Livistona. Above the picture in the thread he says it's a Livistona Decora. I'm not sure whether it's a Decora (Decipiens) or a Chinensis, but either way, it's pretty amazing that there's a surviving Livistona, much less, a trunking 15 to 20 foot Livistona in the Columbia area. The picture was taken in 2012 so I'm not sure if it survived the harsh winter last year and the winter before last, but just wanted to get everyones thoughts on i…
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Windmill palm damage after winterization
by Tropical6b- 11 replies
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Hello fellow palm experts, After winterizing my windmill palm, it had suffered extensive damage to all of its fronds. But it is still alive. Up to today it has produced 4 new fronds. My question is where do I go from here. Can I remove all the dead fronds? I would like a thick diameter trunk and read somewhere that one should not remove fronds until they hang below 90 degrees. That this will grow a nice thick trunk, is it true? Attached below is what the palm looked like after the winter. Thank you, Joe
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Giant sago palms - LOOK! (cycas revoluta)
by Sandy Loam- 19 replies
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This week I drove past these giant sago palms (cycas revoluta) and I could not resist taking a photo. There are a lot of sago palms here in Gainesville, Florida, but the ones in these 3 attached photos are possibly the biggest I have ever seen. The one in the first photo had a central trunk that was possibly twice my height. I recall exactly, but it was huge. The houses in this district were mostly built in the 1890s, so these sago palms may be as old as 125 years if they were planted when the home was constructed. PHOTO 1 - huge sago PHOTO 2 - same huge sago, but slightly different angle PHOTO 3 - different multi-trunk sago; not as tall as the tree in…
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Hi all Since Alberto showed his beauties, I decided to go on with the world needle tour and show my little babies. It is pretty much impossible to get any larger specimens without being completely ruined. So, to try and see, I firs planted out a tiny seedling in April 2012: It has put out 3-4 leaves every year. We lack summer heat so I'm happy anyway. It has never had any sort of protection. and it's already showing some needles, yaaay. And here's my larger one. Planted in spring 2013. Unfortunately, I have no comparison shot. It's in semi shade.
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Hello. I have an Arenga Micrantha that is gorgeous when I successfully prop it up. However, my props always fall over after a day or two because this tree so desperately wants to grow lying flat along the surface of the ground. Is this normal? I have looked at other photos of this palm, and they all appear to be upright. Even the suckers in those photos do not insist on lying directly flat against the ground horizontally. I am not sure what to do. I have tried using stakes to hold the Arenga Micrantha upright, but I am not very gifted at building staking contraptions and may have to build an actual upright reinforcement structure. This is becoming annoying…
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butia jubaea hybrid questions
by NorthFlpalmguy- 4 replies
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1) Are these butia/jubaea hybrids fairly common in Florida? 2) Do curved fronds not occur on some "pure" Butias? I say Butias only as we have a "mutt" mix of Butias I suspect. (Odorata) The reason I ask these questions are quite a number of years ago I was collecting seeds from what I thought was an "odd" Butia capitata in Lake City, Florida. Huge trunk, straighter than most, and fairly clean for a neglected old palm of this species and huge seeds. I wish I had a picture of it now but I am guessing it was relocated when the park received was re-landscaped years later. I noticed the hooks on some of these fronds and the few palms I have left nearly all have the twist…
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serenoa repens 1 2
by palm tree man- 1 follower
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I am starting this forum for those that love our native success story the saw palmetto. There is no palm that is more wide spread and that can survive more diverse conditions in the Southeastern United States. In its own wright it is a cool palm and really deserves more attention despite its slow growing and mostly sub subterranean nature. There are many examples of this palm that craw great distances upon the ground or that grow underground to another location. It is only when the soil is removed "often sandy" that we realize how large and branching some of these clumps truly are. There are also several distinct varieties which show different leaf traits…
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What Variety of C. humilis
by Alicehunter2000- 7 replies
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This was at Kanapaha Garden in Gainesville. ...thought it looked like a multifida version of C. humilis. Anybody got info on this variety?
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JubaeaXButiaXQueen ID
by Yort- 14 replies
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The story behind this palm is as follows: I bought this palm in horrible shape (almost no leaves in a very small container with a huge infection of scale insects) from a Dutch company that didn't know anything about palms. They had shipped a container filled with palms from portugal because the palms were left on a property that they had bought. I've given the palm a bigger container and got rid of the infection and placed it in my greenhouse, at the moment the spear is growing 1,4 cm a day. On the container was written JubaeaXButiaXQueen. What do you guys think?
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Here in Europe we have now lots of Trachycarpus takil grown from seeds collected recently in India in habitat. I wander if its also be grown now in North America. It has shown here good coldhardiness so it should be a nice addition to the list of coldhardy palms grown overthere. Alexander
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I have noticed that Livistona Chinensis seems to have a lot of genetic variation and I am wondering why. Perhaps I am confusing some Livistona Chinensis with other types of Livistona, such as Livistona Australis. The photos below will illustrate what I mean. For example, the first group of photos show the type with a slimmer trunk (often leaning but not always) with no leaf bases, whereas others seem to have a chunkier, thicker trunk full of leaf bases -- or simply very thick with the leaf bases fallen off. There also seems to be variation in how much the leaf tips droop. Some seem to have ribbon tips more than others, although I am not talking about tips that are as…
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native palm oasis in western Arizona?
by Sandy Loam- 6 replies
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I was just reading this article (excerpt below) about Washingtonia Filifera: http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/may/stories/fanpalms.html "Fossil evidence indicates that 10 million years ago, this species extended throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, to the Pacific Coast of California. Today, due to geologic and climatic changes, they are found only in southeastern California (Death Valley National Park south into Baja California) with a few specimens ranging into extreme southern Nevada and western Arizona." Are there any palm oasis locations in western Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada? If so, are they like the palm canyons in the inland deserts of s…
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Sabal Growth Rates Riddle
by Cosmo- 7 replies
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Years ago I planted 3 container grown Sabals, supposedly all the same but I'm no expert. I buy on looks and they were pretty and sold as hardy for our area. Good enough for me. There was no difference in top growth. Palm #1 the largest was planted in what I would consider an urban environment - between the patio and pool deck. I figured that would serve to restrain the growth being right beside the pool gate. I was wrong, dead wrong. It is the largest and most beautiful of the 3. Palm #2 is nearly the same size, doesn't have to contend with concrete and stone but must compete with a 35+ year old ash tree. Both 1 & 2 receive 4-5 hours of direct sunlight each d…
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Here is the background: Four years ago, I unwisely planted a row of livistona chinensis along the edge of a fence dividing my property from someone else's. The adjacent house had been abandoned at the time for a couple of years, so no one was living next door. I planted the livistona as very juvenile palms and assumed that they would be single-trunk specimens, so I planted them only about a foot and a half from the fence (50 centimetres). Four years later, these trees have grown quickly (wet soil, sunny location) and some fronds are now ninefeet tall. They are not trunking yet, but it is becoming clear that they are all suckering Livistona Chinensis! I would not…
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New Trithrinax arrivals in the UK
by benbaron- 1 follower
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Hi all, Just taken delivery of some more goodies - I might have gone overboard.... the pot on this campestris is the biggest thing Ive ever seen and the roots are absolutely bulging in it.
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What gender is Trachycarpus?
by Ovar- 8 replies
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Hi all, I have a question for you. In my garden bloomed first Trachycarpus fortunei. Flower is still developing and I'm still waiting, what will sexes. I photographed a close-up manually open flower, but I do not know what I see. Male? Females? Flowers is 9 pieces.
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Hi everyone, I really believe i am in the right place for palm trees info and helpful advises. My wife already thinks that i am becoming obseseed with palms. Anyway, i was able to germinate a bunch of windmills and they are already 5"-6". I am afraid to place them outside of fear of getting damaged by critters. I also have an upper deck with western exposure and it gets sun from around 2'00pm to around 06'30pm. Do you think if 4 hrs will be ok for the seedlings and what my general approach should be for introducing them to full sun? I live in Marietta GA zone 7b. Thanks in advance;))
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