COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Splitting cerifera?
by N8ALLRIGHT- 8 replies
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I have a nice cerifera that is suckering. I have a wife who for once likes one of my palms. So she sees the suckers and says can we split them off like we do with sago pups? I think so but I'm wondering if a certain size is better for success? It's not overly large, perhaps 2 ft tall and potted. Thanks for looking
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On a few of my pinnate palms this year I have noticed that when the spear is pushing that the individual leaflets aren't opening/unfolding creating a droopy looking frond that is rather flaccid looking as it pushes out. I have seen this on a butia, mule and queen. Any thoughts on the cause?
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Palm leaves growing short
by maskedmole- 1 follower
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I live in Tennessee. Due to the elevation in my area, I am in zone 6b on the 2012 USDA zone map. Despite this, we usually have zone 7 winters, at least in recent years. Sabal minor palms and needle palms are easy for me to grow here. This year, though, all my sabal minor and needle palms seem to be pushing out these short leaves despite growing normal longer leaves in the years before. Should I be concerned about this and is there anything that I can do? One of the needle palms are flowering and the baby needle palm had a spear pull because last winter we actually had a true 6b winter going 3 below zero and all I did was cover it up with a small pile of leaves during that…
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Dwarf sabals
by teddytn- 1 follower
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I’ve got some room in the middle of a raised bed and want to fill it with more palms, but even a sabal minor would be too tall. Anyone know where to source some of the dwarf varieties of sabal like blountstown or wakulla? Was driving from Panama City beach to Kissimmee a few years back and drove through Blountstown, FL I had my eyes peeled for a nursery, the wife would have killed me if I stopped to buy “another plant” lol.
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New find a few days ago :
by WSimpson- 5 replies
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I found this small Trachy under one of my female Trachys . I've found seedlings under my other female Trachy before , but this is the first time I've seen one under this female . Will
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Small Sabal with papery ligules
by LeonardHolmes- 2 followers
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I have a young palm in front of my house that was labeled "Sabal texana" when I bought it (at Smithfield Gardens in Suffolk, VA?) a few years ago. I assumed that it would turn out to be a 'Brazoriensis." It has (slowly) developed papery legumes, similar to Sabal causiarum. It is growing among bamboo roots and is holding its own. Hardiness at this young age is similar to S palmetto. Any guesses as to which Sabal this really is?
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Video I made about Cincinnati sabal minor
by donofriojim1- 2 replies
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Chammy and Butia and others after 5F
by WSimpson- 5 replies
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It's been a mild winter except for that cold right before Christmas . Chammy and Butia before the cold and after 4 mild winters till this December . After the cold . Still , they are fine and there's plenty of green and even flowering on the Chammy . My Chammy Cerifera is more frond hardy than the regular Humilis : My least hardy Trachy . All my other Trachys look way better than this one . The best looking Trachy I've seen is one that I planted at a Mexican restaurant . I think a drunk fell into it and bent some fronds down ? …
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Checking my trachy in zone 5
by Alex Zone 5- 9 replies
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We had a few warm days here in Montreal so I removed my winter protection to check the condition of my trachycarpus. Looks good, another 2 weeks then everything will be removed. 2 sets of C9 bulbs on a thermocube, burlap from the dollar store and concrete curing bubble wrap. The burned leafs were my fault, one bulb was touching the foliage.
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Moody Gardens
by SeanK- 2 replies
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Many years ago, I did a bunch of jobs around Houston. I liked to take time off to go to Kemah and Moody Gardens. How did those areas fare during the Jan 2021 winter? I loved the plantings outside of Moody; hundreds of cold-hardy palms everywhere. Were they badly damaged?
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Sabal palm
by WattsZ- 2 replies
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Hi planted this sabal palm. The company trimmed the roots right from what I could tell. However, they tied the fronds instead of cutting. What’s the best advice on leaving it this way or cutting some?? edit: uploading pics keeps failing Overall height is 9-10ft with 3.5’ of trunk.
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My Cincinnati sabal palms!
by donofriojim1- 2 replies
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trachycarpus fortunei seedling cold hardiness Palm and other exotics damage from January deep freeze in Portland OR - but Trachy seedlings survived just fine
by Palmy Portlander- 7 replies
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In mid-January we had our third polar vortex in 15 months, something I cannot remember happening in Portland, at least in the last 30 years. It was preceded by a damaging wind storm. Even as our summers become noticeably hotter and longer (almost like Sacramento in the 1980s) and our zones are shifting up, climate change means we are also getting these extreme cold weather events as the polar jet stream become les stable. It , makes me wonder about the future of some of the exotics growing here that are native to more evenly temperate locations. Last year we had two polar intrusions. One of them included strong, very cold and dry winds (high teens Fahrenheit)…
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I know the answer...
by JohnAndSancho- 2 followers
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Welp. For those of you who don't know me and don't follow all of my posts, I professionally bounce back and forth between hotels in east Texas. Anyway this month I'm at a hotel that previously had what I'm guessing were Sabals that didn't survive the 2021 palmageddon, and the palm corpses are still in place. Our companies sister properties are in Houston near IAH, and are landscaped with Washies that were healthy and seeding a few months ago when I was in Houston for training. Long story short - Palm nerds, what would you suggest that will survive South Texas heat and North Texas winters? I know the answer is either Sabal or Trachycarpus, but I'm asking anywa…
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Windmill's getting Fried in DFW (Sunburn)
by PDXPalm- 10 replies
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Any advice? Same thing happened last year!
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One year since digging up Sabal seedling… palmetto or Mexicana?
by DreaminAboutPalms- 2 replies
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Dug this up from a parking lot exactly a year ago. It was slow for awhile but this 4th leaf wasn’t even visible 2 weeks ago so making progress. The old pic was from last August. The video below was across the parking lot from where I dug this up. So i actually have zero clue which one this is. This is in North Austin off braker and i35 on east side. There are like a hundred sabal volunteers growing around the property IMG_9469.MOV
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Chameadorea Elegans rescue from Ikea
by EastCanadaTropicals- 7 replies
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Ikea was selling a few non-artificial cacti and palm tress in small containers. I don't think the conditions were too great, as the palm pots had lots of roots sticking out of them. I chose a Chameadorea Elegans, which I repoted, and fertilized with palm tree fertilizer. It was already looking pretty okay from the beginning, but now it's gonna perform a lot better. I apologize for the garbage photo quality, I had to use my webcam as my camera.
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Comparing cold hardiness in C. Humilis after 2 nights at 11F in Dallas. One image is the overview of the palms so you can see their placement near each other. The blue variety is C. Humilis cerifera. It is undamaged. I have 2 other large undamaged specimens in other parts of my garden. The green and common form has been defoliated and taken to the ground. We had 11F the previous winter and all the growth was from one season. Previously we had two mild decades and the trunk on this green form was 12 feet tall. 2021’s 3F, killed it to the ground. During that same winter the cerifera defoliated. But the multiple trunks remained intact. Seems for cerifera, minor damage …
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what's happening to this trachy???
by newtopalmsMD- 3 replies
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I live in Olney MD, zone 7a, and it was a pretty mild winter. Tonight I went to start removing mulch and cut dead fronds and found the frond in the first picture coming out of one of my trachy's It pulled fairly easily but the end is not dark like is usually get when a spear pulls. Also the stem of the frond had the consistency of slightly undercooked pasta. The next full frond is bluer than I'd like. Also fronds are wilting and turning brown about half way up the fronds. See fronds in second picture. Other green fronds are wilty and sagging. Is this a fungus problem? or could it be something else. I did spray in the crown twice with copper fungicide and used a …
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Washingtonia filifera
by MarcusH- 1 follower
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Growing some Filifera from seeds at home thanks to NBTX11 who donated them to me. Let's see how that works out for me. One will be planted in the front yard once the trunk is visible. Any advices for successful growth would be appreciated. I'm new to this .
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its original spot before it got uprooted^ july^october?^after december polar vortex^current^ i dont know how this thing is still alive
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trachycarpus dry spears wth happened
by ZPalms- 1 follower
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All winter my trachy was fine until now, I realized last week yellow on the spears but I thought the green color would of come in from the chlorophyll just because it was new but now that I'm looking closer all the spears expect the one thats opening are all dried out, I pulled on the spears and none of them came out but I was able to break a spear because it was so dry. I've been watering it here and there in the winter including the rain it gets so I don't get it
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Sabal blackburniana odd spiral growth
by LivistonaFan- 4 replies
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I bought this nice Sabal blackburniana online and was quite surprised when I discovered that there are three growing points on the same plant. I don't believe that these are three different plants grown from seed in the same pot. It rather seems like the growth point has been damaged at some time and now two additional spiral growth points emerged. But that's just a guess. What do you think?
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Two for one. Have you ever done this?
by Ben OK- 2 replies
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I lost several smaller needles last winter after five or six different snow and ice events, with my lowest low being around 11F. I was able to save some needles that spear pulled, but some lost their main trunk/growth point. They will take so long to recover and grow large enough to look good again that I dug some up and replaced them (with other needles and some aucuba japonica). I had the idea to pot up two of the needles that lost their main trunk together in one pot. My thinking was that with multiple side trunks recovering in the same pot, it might grow back into something decent looking faster than either plant would individually. Perhaps root competition will hinde…
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Livistonia Chinensis wrinkles
by Keys6505- 1 reply
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When I initially landscaped my yard I purchased 5 Livistonia Chinensis, one of which is about 15' tall and the other 4 were only about 2' tall to the top of the highest fan. Out of the 5, four have the typical flat-ish leaf of a Chinensis while the fifth seems to have a few wrinkles in all of the leaves. The wrinkles are present in new leaves and remains after they fully open up. Is this just a natural variation or a sign of some type of nutrient deficiency? It's kind of hard to see in the photos but it zig zags with the low points dead center opposite the petiole and on either side.
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