COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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What other palms can grow in the Puget sound.area 1 2
by Love them palms- 1 follower
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Doing research and taking advice from other growers, the only palms that come up is trachycarpus,butia and their hybrids, jubaea and their hybrids ,sabals,Mediterranean fan palms,mule palms, washingtonia filibusta ( maybe).but what I am looking for is a phoenix style looking tree that has a fighting chance in our 8B climate. We get the wet winters and it dont get too cold 15 is usually normal for the coldest min but doesn't do that much (except this year,alot of cold and snow) we get pretty warm summers lately. I'm not into trachycarpus cause everybody and their dog have them here.I have a sabal riverside, butia x jubaea already and getting a couple of filibusta soon, any…
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Most Cold Hardy Butia? 1 2
by sevapalms- 55 replies
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What is the most cold hardy Butia palm for a wet year round, cold/cool winter and hot summer climate? I normally get down to around 12-14 degrees Fahrenheit every year, but it gets much colder into the single digits sometimes ~every 5-10 years. I am willing to protect my palm. I live in coastal southeastern Virginia, if anyone knows specifics about this area.
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large Sabal Louisiana in habitat
by Sabal_Louisiana- 7 replies
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I took this pic last month near Lake Pontchartrain west of New Orleans. Height is about 12 feet. Trunk is about 8' including crown. There are some I think even bigger in the vicinity but hard to get to in the swamp. There used to be one on Bayou Savauge NWR in New Orleans East that must have been about 14 feet tall but it was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. I wish I still had a picture of it.
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Chamaedorea Radicalis rocks!
by Swolte- 1 follower
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Quite impressed with this palm so far. I bought some C. Radicalis (trunking and non-trunking) on Jungle Music sale in mid-December. The palm has been on my radar for a while so I was unable to resist this deal. I decided, in an impatient bout, to plant it in the ground immediately (the winter had been mild thus far). As with all my new trees and shrubs, I inspect the root system and often do a thorough root-washing and root pruning (if needed) before I plant in native soil. I was horrified at seeing such a girdling, rock solid mass of woody material on this palm! There was almost no soil visible! This can't be healthy, I thought, and I took a sharp saw and just…
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New planting season started nice :)
by akaranus- 1 follower
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Its that time of the year to start planting new plants, finally Few days ago i got this 40yr old cycas, some neighbour want to cut it so ask me nicely if i am interested and will i come to digg it for free and today arrived from mypalmshop nice parajubaea tvt...when they are this big it is clear why they call it mountain cocos, pure tropic looking palm...
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Parajubaea ID
by Marius- 15 replies
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Hi Everyone. I just bought these two beautiful Parajubaeas. I’m so excited to finally get Parajubaea. Not sure which species they are. I suspect that the one in the ground is torallyi due to rusty colour under the pinnae. Any thoughts will be welcomed. Now I have to make a plan to get them to my house. I’m in Bloemfontein, Free State and the palms are in Gauteng Province.
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Hardy palms for mostly shade..
by Alex Anthony- 11 replies
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My front yard has a couple of large deciduous trees. When they leaf out it will be mostly shade. Will Pindo palms grow in a place with only partial sun? Options are limited in our zone 8a.
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Trachycarpus Fortunei Success Rate in Mid-Atlantic?
by LasPalmerasDeMaryland- 21 replies
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I’m thinking about trying Trachycarpus Fortunei again this year. I’ve tried 3 before. The first winter had a low of about 12° in which 1 spear pulled (but made a full recovery), 1 died, and 1 was fine. I mulched the bases and wrapped them all in burlap for that winter. The more damaged ones were planted out in the open and the one that was fine was planted in the open but next to an evergreen shrub on the Northwest side. The next spring/summer I added a Wagnerianus. The next winter was much harsher with a low of 5° and ice storms. I was preoccupied and pretty depressed during that period and didn’t have the motivation to protect any of them. They all croaked (I even had a…
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Jubea in Habitat
by Chester B- 0 replies
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I'm sure this has been posted here at one time, but I happened to come across this video today taken in Chile.
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Planting Trachycarpus in CT
by Tom Ace- 19 replies
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Hi Folks, I posted a little while back about a potted Trachy that I was concerned about. I moved it to a different room and it seems to be stabilizing. I'm preparing to plant it out in May and wanted to get some advice. I have seen or read that some people don't ammend soil, and some ammend with sand and/or compost. Some make a very large planting hole and some just make it large enough for the root ball. I even read a bit about installing a drainage grate next to it in order to provide water in winter. I have a reasonably sheltered SW corner of my house in 6B Wilton, Connecticut. One other question would be how far from the walls I should plant it…
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Trip to Cistus Nursery
by Chester B- 15 replies
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We had a nice sunny day so I decided to take a trip to Cistus Nursery on Sauvie Island. For those who don't know they specialize in all sorts of rare and newly discovered plant species. It's still pretty early in the season so they're just starting to ramp up for the season. Here's a selection of palmy pics. Giant Yucca Schotti?? Brahea edulis Butia Bi
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Serenoa Repens in NC
by NC_Palms- 22 replies
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I think Serenoa repens is the most underrated palm grown in Eastern NC. I have noticed that this palm seems to perform better in our sandy soil and hot summer climate better than Trachycarpus fortunei since most Serenoa I have seen around here look better than the nearby Trachies. Otherwise, last November I visited the NC botanical gardens in Chapel Hill z7b and I was surprised to see the green variety of Serenoa repens surviving in the NC piedmont. Since then I planted the (slightly less hardy?) Serenoa repens "Cinerea" and it has been doing phenomenal here. I have heard that in extreme cold events, this palm will resprout from total defoliation. I think there are s…
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Picked up these 2 15g sabals in need of repotting over the weekend. Keeping the top of saxophone heal above the ground surface is what’s important correct? Also so what happens to that heal with mature palms? I’ve never noticed it on mature trees.
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Volunteer Sabals
by GaDawg- 1 follower
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What to do with all these volunteers. They’re everywhere, and I hate killing them. Even under the house.
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Hi, I'm a new member based in Northumberland (UK - North east). I'm a palm tree addict, trying my best to grow cordylines, washington robusta, tracycarpus, banana tree's, Phoenix Canariensis in my garden. I've had some bad experiences with washington robusta's dying (mainly due to a bad winter when we had snow at the end of February and i didn't protect them) however replacements i got last year seam to have got through this winter hopefully. Anyways getting onto my question. I have one Cordyline Indivisa & quite a few australis, obviously when the leaves turn brown, you cut them off close to the trunk however how do i make this look like an actual tru…
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Fun Maryland Weather and Soil Question
by LasPalmerasDeMaryland- 1 reply
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The weather differences here between today and yesterday are pretty staggering. And even more so around this time last year! Anyone living south of the Mason Dixon can probably relate to these events. But sadly, mass meltings like these always demonstrate how poor my native soil is. It’s a clay type soil which can remain extremely soggy around 1-3 days after precipitation. You can even see runoff and puddling. The drainage is extremely poor and I would like some tips on improving it. I want to keep my palm’s soil atleast partly the native soil, but I was thinking about adding organic materials to the mix such as crumbled leaves, peat moss, and pearlite …
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Sabal Louisiana Hardiness?
by LasPalmerasDeMaryland- 4 followers
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I recently have bought some Sabal Louisianas because I thought they were basically the same as Sabal Minors in terms of hardiness. But I’ve been finding conflicting reports on their hardiness. Some say they are equal to Sabal Minor, and some say they aren’t as hardy. I’m afraid that they’ll croak in my Zone 7b. Has anyone had experience with S. Louisiana? Would they be possible in a Maryland 7b/8a? Or are they more of a solid zone 8?
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This is a continuation of the Sabal minor post from a few days ago. Same trail (Great Wall) in the Forks Area Trail System off-road bike trails in Edgefield County, SC, about 20 minutes north of Augusta, GA. In the photographs, beginning with the map, the pictures are in ascending order by elevation. The trail is the red one on the map and you can see how close it gets to a finger of the Savannah River. There are fairly steep gullies leading down to the river. In places, Sabal minor is really thick and then a little further down in what seems to be prime palm habitat, there won't be any. My speculation is that when cotton was grown here, the palm-empty areas w…
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Needle Frond pull ?!!!! :{
by newtopalmsMD- 1 follower
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I have a 15 gallon Needle Palm with a main plant and two pups that I planted in April. In early November one of the pups suffered spear pull. I sprayed copper fungicide in the crown. I checked out the palms just before last week's arctic event and found this dead frond which pulled out of the same pup that had the spear pull. Pics of the frond below. The pup still has 4 green fronds. I splayed 6 more shots of copper fungicide in the crown. In the last pic the white frost cloth (kinda light green a little left of center) is covering the crown and you can see a couple of the good fronds. I covered the crown with leaves to try to keep snow and water out of the crown…
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On Sunday, I was out running the off-road bike trails in the Sumter National Forest in Edgefield County, SC about twenty minutes from Augusta, Ga, and ran up on this beautiful colony of Sabal minor. Minors are actually pretty common in inundation and seepage areas in the forest, but can be found on steep slopes well away from obvious water sources. This colony was at 285' in elevation or a little less since I was up above them to take the picture. On some of the other trails, the colonies are even more extensive.
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Northern Va Chamaerops Humilis 1 2
by ExpandRe4lity1- 46 replies
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I planted my Chamaerops on July 11 2018 in Woodbridge Va. It has endured some pretty impressively low temps with no protection thus far. Our lowest temp this winter has been 6 degrees Fahrenheit and numburous days below 15. I will post current pics tomorrow but it has suffered minimal damage despite the winter here so far and has been growing all winter long from what I can tell. Planning on planting another one this spring along with a Trachy
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Wild Sabal Minor in Virginia
by Avi- 12 replies
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I was on wikipedia and I saw this picture of a lake with a dwarf palmetto that is in Virginia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asheville_Bridge_Creek_in_Sigma,_Virginia.jpg
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New Sabal Louisianas!
by LasPalmerasDeMaryland- 7 replies
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My 3 new Sabal Louisiana’s have finally arrived! I put them in these pots to hold them over until March/April. They were shipped bare-root which concerns me somewhat. Have y’all had any experience with bare-root shipped palms? Also, how should sabals be planted? What type of soil is the best?
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Washingtonian Filifera in Idaho 1 2
by IdahoPalmGuy- 1 follower
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Palm Yellowing/ Fast Acting Fertilizer
by GaDawg- 8 replies
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I have quite a few palms I’ve transplanted the last couple years. And, most of them are doing great, and I expect they’ll look even better the second year as the roots have grown enough to support them. I usually add Fertilome Root Stimulator (4-10-3) directly after transplanting and fertilize them every three months with Scott’s Palm and Ornamental slow release fertilizer (8-4-8)every 3-4 months. In the spring- usually the end of February, because spring arrives early here is southeast Georgia- I’ll add Vigrio (sp) fast release pelletized fertilizer and I also add it in the middle of the summer. Last year I saw a FB ad selling two windmill palms for $20 each…