COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Serenoa Repens Spines.
by Tennessee Palms- 1 reply
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At what stage does silver Serenoa Repens start to have spines?
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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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Serenoa repens zone
by NickRB223- 1 follower
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Hey Everyone! I have seen a lot of different zone recommendations for Serenoa. So I wanted to ask the pros, What zones are they really good in? Anyone have any growing in 8a? Would love to see some pics. Here's one of mine.
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Several mature coconuts in the ground in ormond beach, Fl
by Gottagrowemall- 0 replies
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So my buddy has a nursery on his homestead in ormond beach it’s really quite large. Grows TONS of palms and pushes zones regularly. The only coconuts he grows and sells are maypans and I was probably 50 feet from them but they looked to be 10 years old? He said they do get coconuts on some of these trees. Also said he does not protect them in the winter at all. He has smaller ones in his nursery like 15 gallon size that I saw unprotected this past winter. sorry no pictures I don’t know him well enough to ask if I could take pics just thought I’d share lol. I’m growing a maypan on my property and another Home Depot coconut in palm coast lol. I’m 3 miles from the …
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Severe Free
by ChicagoPalma- 1 follower
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Here in Chicago, we have been in spring weather for so long, the privets started growing back, and in december, after our 13F, the elephant ears pushed out new growth, currently, weather report says we will be below 10F temperatures for 4 days, 2 days below 5F, one day -1F. Not a problem to my palm tree, the insulated box does well, and the cannas and elephant ears are well mulched and have started regrowing, its hard to keep up everyday to cut the new growth but they stopped right after the new years.
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Sharing some of my winter indoor palms.
by steve617- 7 replies
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Thought I'd share a few pics of my indoor 7a winterizing palms. I raise mainly Trachycarpus and the colder hardy Sabal minors and have probably 50 pots in my greenhouse and that many inside. Here is a few if my lesser cold hardy palms. Just a few phoenix from seed, my butia pindo, a couple Trachycarpus, Bald Head Island Palmetto, a container of Sabal Louisiana, Bismarckia Nobilis, and W. Robusta, s. Blackburniana. I had the Blackburniana in my greenhouse but when we had the big Christmas freeze, I brought them inside. I paid a little bit for those. Sorry looks like some came in upside down.
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Shifting Hardiness Zones
by knikfar- 7 replies
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I'll start by saying I know hardiness zones have to be taken with a grain of salt because they don't account for duration of cold and are based on average lows, not low temps experienced in vortex winters. But I did read a NYT article that said hardiness zones are moving 13 miles north every decade. Looking at the attached hardiness zone map of my area, from 2012, anyone think I can safely say I'm zone 8a vs 7b? My house is marked by the red star.
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Shipping Sabals?
by JohnAndSancho- 1 follower
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Okie dokie. I know that they don't like to be dug up and transplanted. What about seedlings and smaller ones? Would they be ok being removed from their pots for shipping, or is this a gamble too?
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Shocked my plant in Charlotte is growing bananas!
by charlotte palm guy- 1 follower
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My cold hardy banana style plant is somehow now randomly growing real bananas. See pick Charlotte, Nc. Thoughts?
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Shore Acres Park - Near Coos Bay OR
by Zach K- 1 follower
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If you haven't been, go check out Shore Acres Park near Coos Bay, OR. I didn't have time to snap any good pictures of the park except for these 3 because the crowd I was with was on the move to view the king tide waves event nearby. Anyways, here's to a quick thread of some zone 9 goodness. Plenty of New Zealand flax. There are tons of very mature cordylines there as well. If you have ever visited the OR coast, you will instantly notice the Abundance of mature cordyline trees. There was also an attempt to grow a Nikau palm (Rhopalostylis sapida) aka Shaving brush palm in the garden, but the person who planted it told me its no longer there unfortunately. Looking…
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Short, Hardy, Palm Recommendations? 1 2
by BeyondTheGarden- 3 followers
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Any ideas for 8a palms, that would stay under ~4 feet tall? Aside from Trachycarpus nanus and Brahea moorei, which are both about impossible to find... Looking for things to put in front of my house, that would not obscure the front porch. I am open to non-palm recommendations as well. BLE's/non-deciduous. Thank you.
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Should I add more heat to my Windmill & Sago ?
by PashkaTLT- 1 follower
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Hello everyone, We have an abnormally cold winter here in NJ, USA, and the sensor in the Windmill palm's box showed 19F (-7C) last night. Should I add more heating, or she should be fine? Also, what minimum temperature inside the winter box would you allow for a Sago palm?
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Should i assume it's dead
by BigBilly- 1 follower
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I have a small trachy that Spear pulled back in January, It's April now and there's no new growth but it's still green. Should I remove it?
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Should I be worried
by Bobozehead- 2 replies
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Hi, I'm in the UK and have a Chamaerops Humilis, I've had it for nearly three years and has been doing fine. However I've recently noticed in the centre what looks like rot or fungus (I don't know, see picture) from the new growth. Should I be worried and/or what can I do to help? Thanks all.
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Should i be worried
by BigBilly- 20 replies
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It's looking like we're gonna get one heck of a cold wave this weekend on the east coast, I'm wondering should i worried for my Windmill and Sabal Minor ? Looking bad already several days below freezing and ultimate low of 9F, Neither of the palms are very old either both were planted in 2023.
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Should I be worried about this Canary?
by Jon_Alex- 2 replies
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I have a large Phoenix near the front of my house with some kind of trunk injuries about midway up (see photos). The tree was covered in Ivy when I purchased the house (6 years ago). At that time the wounds weren't visible, but after removing the Ivy and old frond bases it became evident that the tree had sustained some kind of damage at some point in the past. It almost looks like mechanical damage at some points and is isolated to one section about midway up the trunk. Some of them look to be a few inches deep. I've never had any problems but am worried about the potential for toppling onto the house! We don't get hurricanes in California but winter does brin…
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Should I be worried? Newest spear split away slightly form the next youngestnewest spear
by palmaddict83- 10 replies
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So I tried protecting my Sabal and didn't do a great job during this last Dallas ice/sleet storm. I had towels and frost cloths wrapped around the newest spears. But I went to clean any melted ice water from the spear before sun sets so it doesnt freeze and the new growing spear kind of split away form the next spear that has yet to open. I put a little too much force into the towel cleaning. Should I be concerned about spear damage? They should break away that easily no? I saw it yellow inside and dry. So I tied the newest spear with the next youngest spear that is yet to open.
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Should I Bring My Palms Out?
by EJPalm05- 5 replies
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There is no more nights below freezing so should I bring my palms out? The Lowest Low I am Seeing is 36F.
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Should I cut this one off?
by Dave_E- 14 replies
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Hi All, My 10 year old Windmill Palm is doing well this winter, seems to have made it through our cold spell OK. There is one fan that has taken a serious dip from the crown and wonder if I should cut it off now? Can that hurt the crown if I leave it? Dave
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Should I Cut?
by ColumbusPalm- 3 replies
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Hey All, Ironically the needle looks worse than anything else I planted and was curious if and when I should cut these fronds? The suckers seemed to fare way better but the spear on the main stem is still firm. 55F today. Thanks in advance Nate
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Should I get rid of these millipedes/centipedes?
by PashkaTLT- 15 replies
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Hello guys, So I took some soil we had left in our garage and added it to a few palms (they lost some soil during transportation). And only then I noticed the soil had these: What do I do now? Should I get rid of them? I'm not sure if these are millipedes or centipedes. I read that centipedes are not harmful.
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The fronds got zapped by the Christmas morning freeze year before last ( 6F ) but I was wondering if I should leave them on to form a skirt or not ?
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Should I move my palm tree to another spot?
by PalmTreesAreCoolYes- 1 follower
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I didn't really plan ahead and planted a windmill palm under a power line a few years ago. It is about a foot or 2 to the left of it. The top power line is about 15 ft high maybe and the line under it about 12 ft high. According the web it says it normally grows to only about 8-10ft in the cooler growing zones 6 and 7. I am in Tennessee, and some sites list my area as zone 6b, other sites say I am in zone 7a. Most of our winters are above zero. But it's absolute max height is like 30 or 40ft if it is in really ideal conditions. It says it commonly reaches 10-20ft in landscape uses, however. It is in I would say partial or full shade. I know it's probably really unlik…
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Hi guys, I've already boxed my zone 9 palms here in NJ, but then warm weather unexpectedly has come and now the average temperature is >10C/50F. My boxes dont't have transparent roofs and the only thing I can do is open sides. But do I need to do this? Or they are fine being closed in such warmer weather?
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Should I Plant It or Wait?
by PalmTreeDude- 18 replies
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I keep having this mental debate with myself whether or not I should plant my Sabal minor seedling in the ground now and just throw some leaves over it in the coldest parts of winter or wait for spring. The one thing that keeps making me want to plant it now is that I am afriad that if I do not plant it now and let it go through its first winter outside that it will lose cold tolerance. Any suggestions? Would you plant it now with protection or would you wait? It is a Sabal minor 'Arkansas.'
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