COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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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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Variegated Needle Palm.
by Chester B- 1 follower
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I noticed today one of my needle palms put out a very cool variegated frond. It’s likely the only one and will revert back to all green, but I sure hope it doesn’t stop.
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Variegated Sabal minor seedling
by scarecrow- 2 replies
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Will this seedling survive?
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Variegated Sabal palmetto
by buccaneers37- 2 followers
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Variegated Sabal palmetto I purchased from Creekside that has been in the ground for for around 7 years. When it was younger, it used to have more pronounced variegation radiating all the way up its fronds.
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Variegated Sabals
by ahosey01- 1 reply
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Got these from @FishEyeAquaculture, along with a Lisa. Stellar plants. Stuck them in full AZ sun (in my best soil) and they’re already pushing a new leaf each: plus the Lisa:
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Variegated trachycarpus princeps
by TexasColdHardyPalms- 3 replies
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Pretty cool. Maybe it will hold, maybe it wont.
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Variegation or not?
by Stefanus- 1 follower
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I got a few wagnerianus x princeps sprouting and one of them seems to show some variegation. What do you guys think?
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Varigated livistona nitida update
by TexasColdHardyPalms- 3 replies
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I cant find my last post but this plant looks better every single day and the varigation is second only to top notch rhapis minus the grasshopper bites. Enjoy.
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Vent for Plastic Enclosure
by PalmInVancouver- 5 replies
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Hi All, Anyone know where to buy this vent or equivalent vent? Do you guys have other methods to vent? I plant to make a little dome out of PVC pipe. I saw it from this video. https://youtu.be/lgKNKKGxkKc?si=_Uwfw6TQ3b5MwbMe&t=1575
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Very Random Spear Pull on Windmill
by Pee Dee Palms- 1 follower
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So I came outside and took a glance at my Windmill and I immediately knew something seemed off about the spear. One of the fronds that was still coming out of the growth point seemed very crispy. I decided I would gently tug on the spear and out it came. I will say it wasn't a wet spear pull, it was quite dry. I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with it as it was very random. After the cold snap we had it didn't pull so I'm just so confused as to why all of a sudden it pulled. Please any suggestions as to what happened and what I should do going forward to keep it alive.
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Very tall old coconut plus other old coconuts Edison & Ford Estates
by Mr.SamuraiSword- 0 replies
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I visited the Edison estate a couple weeks ago. besides the many unique, rare and old palms scattered around the estates, I noticed this Coconut in particular. While there were other old coconuts, this one was by far the tallest. Different angle, One on the right. Taller than most royals on the property. Anyone have any ideas how old that one might be? Could it have been planted by Edison like some of the other palms around? Plenty of other old and nice coconuts around too,
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Very Warm October + Mulch = Happy Palms
by ColumbusPalm- 1 follower
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Hey All, Haven’t posted in a minute but I finally mulched today. I saved some to get a thicker layer around each palm, but this was about 2” of mulch each. My hope is that the last couple days in the 80s will lock in some soil warmth for them to give them an extra week or so of total bliss. Interesting the color difference between the first two minors West facing vs the last minor South facing. The Needle and West facing minor are tied for my favorite palms. I never grew to love the Trachy this season. Here’s to a mild winter! I’m locked and loaded ready to protect them all. Cheers! Nate
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Very young Sabal minor blooming?
by westfork- 3 followers
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Our Sabal minors all survived our zone 4b/5a winter with no heat but lots of mulch. Surprisingly, one is shooting up what is probably the inflorescence. Is it usual for very young plants to bloom? Maybe it thought last winter was a near death experience and is reacting accordingly. These were just planted last year from mail order sources.
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Pretty much what it says. I'd already posted on the topic in an old thread over in the discussing palms worldwide forum. Not a lot of traction. Guess needle palms aren't very sexy compared to all the exotic stuff most of them can grow. Figured I'd ask here, anyway this plant has produced male flowers in the past. Don't recall seeing them last year tho. I float tested several, they sank. I split one with a set of pliers and I think that's an embryo in the image but it could just be seed material damage? Just looking for some opinions, it produced seeds last year but nothing like this. 5 years in ground from a 3 gal purchased from NEohio palms.
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Viable Blue Med seeds, BUT HOW...?
by Jubaea_James760- 3 replies
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So my Blue Med has some viable seeds but I read you need a male & female plant to have viable seeds. On some occasions I know this is possible to have a clump with male & females grown together out of multiple seeds germinating or seed drops near plant growing with it but has anyone heard or seen on rare occasions a single plant (with 3 trunks) produce both male & female flowers? Only other explanation (likely scenario) is my Green Chamaerops Humilis was the pollen donor. But from 50+ feet away? I have never seen seed on my Green Med & I always suspected it a male. Below i attached 2 recent photos showing the old seeds pollinated early this year…
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Video about my favorite Needle palm in Cincinnati
by donofriojim1- 1 reply
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Video I made about Cincinnati sabal minor
by donofriojim1- 2 replies
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Video of Planting huge palms In Switzerland
by Palmfarmer- 0 replies
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Just came over this video planting of a huge Jubea and Robusta in southern Switzerland I think you enjoy, I had no Idea washies where hardy there.
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Virginia Beach Sabal Palmettos and Why They Look Bad
by PalmTreeDude- 4 replies
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If you look at Virginia Beach when it comes to Sabal palmettos and you think "those things are going to die." The problem with those palms is not the fact that it is too cold for them but it is the fact that they are not planted well or established. I seen how they plant them and they simply slap it in a hole and fill it with dirt and walk away. They are not planted well. Then they wrap them with a plastic material at the top. Many die. I bet they would do better if they were planted as smaller trees and given years to grow and properly establish. I have looked around neighborhoods about 0.5 miles inland from the ocean and the Sabal palmettos are MASSIVE and thriving. …
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Virginia Beach Volenteer Sabal palmetto
by PalmTreeDude- 22 replies
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I'm at Virginia Beach right now and there are some ok looking Sabal palmetto here. Especially the ones in neighborhoods away from the actual shore. There are also TONS of volunteers in the planters, some look pretty old.
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Virginia Cold Snap, How Should I Protect My Trachy? 1 2
by PalmTreeDude- 1 follower
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It is suppose to go down to 8 degrees F in my area, look in the weather/climate forum for a full post about that. But I was wondering, how should I protect my Trachy for this? It is suppose to snow as well. My little Trachy can't handle this much yet. I am wanting to temporarily protected it for 4 days until the cold is gone. Thanks for any suggestions!
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I figured I would start a new topic giving an update on some of my palms and other things growing in a Virginia garden. Now that I've had a little more free time, I've been catching up on quite a bit of weeding and such. It's still a work in progress. Hopefully, I can get the photos to load. Ever since getting a different phone I've had some difficulties uploading photos, so trying the computer.
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Virginia Sabal minor Population?
by L.A.M.- 1 follower
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If anyone has photographic proof of wild Sabal minor in Virginia, I'd like to know. I believe they're real, but finding wild ones isn't easy even where they're widespread and common and for people knowing where to look. In my recent catalog of palm species native to every USA state/territory, I listed Sabal minor as present in Tennessee and Virginia despite the lack of formal documentation given the absence of evidence to the contrary, sheer number of rural places along Tennessee's southern border they could plausibly be (not to mention that there's a population of them recently plainly visible in downtown Hornsby) and difficulty in properly exploring the Great Disma…
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Virginia Sabal Palmetto Seedlings Update
by PalmTreeDude- 8 replies
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Here are my Sabal palmetto seedlings that I threw all over my garden from a seed stalk off of a palmetto in North Carolina about two years ago. They survived the first winter (a pretty bad one). Let's see how long these can keep going.
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Visiting an old flame: Jubaea chilensis
by Jonathan Haycock- 1 follower
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So glad to see my Jubaea chilensis thriving at our old place (in Kingswinford, West Midlands, UK). The current owners were wonderful and let me into the back garden to take a closer look. Impressed how much it’s grown over the last 6 years. Wish I could have taken it with me when we emigrated.
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