COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Cretan date palm 1 2
by Laaz- 47 replies
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Getting ready to flower. This one is a female & no other male dates in the area. I have multiple other dates, but they haven't flowered yet.
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Jubaea chilensis vs Butia Capitata
by PalmTreeDude- 1 follower
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I heard that the Jubaea chilensis is the most cold hardy feather palm, but I though that was the Butia Capitata? Do you know which is true? Thank you for reading!
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What Will You Miss About Growing Palms in Texas? 1 2 3 4
by buffy- 3 followers
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Holy Plant Armageddon!
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Butia eriospatha X Syagrus glaucescens 1 2
by buffy- 1 follower
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Alright folks, Alberto's cross is stepping out of the toddler phase and is starting to show some adult characteristics. The fronds are flat, rigid so far. The character is distinctive, but I don't think we're dealing with a mature look yet. What do you call this property of an offset pinnae tip. Every pinnae shows this:
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My [(JxB) x B] x B 1 2
by SailorBold- 4 followers
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Mod Edit: Please note the topic title was changed at the request of the Original Poster. Here is a pic of a recently planted J X B F3. The palm is located in the center planter. If I am correct this is J X B X B X B.
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Spear pull x 2 1 2
by mdsonofthesouth- 76 replies
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Well I knew there would be an attrition ratewith my plantation but I didnt think it'd be that quick and easy. Had 2 pull today sadly and checked all my others and they are stout still. Here's hpping they pull through, but we have had an exceptionally cold fall and have had 3 cold snaps already so the palms saw as low as 16F for an hour or 3 and 18 and 19f the other times. All brief with day times over freezing. They are mulched a little and under a canopy that prevents cold rain or snow to hit them their first year, not to mention the rope lights that prevent frozen soil above the roots and trunk. What puzzles tye heck out of me is the livistona chinensi and c…
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Washingtonia robusta or filifera
by Arnaud33- 3 followers
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Hello, I bought recently a washingtonia Palm. I think it's a filifera but I'm totally sure. Here are some fotos. Do you have any idea ?
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It is pretty well documented that Butia x Jubaea F1 hybrids and the various hybrid generations (F2, F3,...) back crossed with Butia, (e.g. (JxB)xB and ((JxB)xB)xB) ) can survive and thrive in the hot and humid east coast where the Jubaea parent of this cross will not. All of these crosses have 50% or less Jubaea genes. This spring I purchased a ((Butia x Jubaea) x Jubaea), which could be up to ~75% Jubaea, from Patric Schafer. The summer here in southeast NC was hot, humid, and wet... If this plant was going to have issues with being hot and damp for months, this summer was a good test. This potted palm so far has been slowly, steadily growing and not showing any sign…
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Cold resistant Phoenix?
by Grasswing- 1 follower
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Hello everybody, I wanna discuss Phoenix dactylifera or canariensis and their cold resistance. Do you think that is possible to train a palm from small seedling to survive cold weather (like -15°C)? I wanna try experiment with small Phoenix seedlings: I will let 'em out in colder temperatures to develope cold resistance. Do you think that I have some chance?
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Winter weather 1 2 3
by Palm crazy- 1 follower
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Had my first heavy frost this morning at 30F, colder tonight into the upper 20’s. Tender flowering plants/palms are inside for the winter. This cold spell is supposed to last to the end of the week. Good bye banana, ginger, canna leaves. There always the first to go any ways. LOL!
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Chamaedorea radicalis trunking
by Palm crazy- 30 replies
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Who in zone 8 is growing this palm and how is it doing in your climate especially 8a winters? I have a few in the ground for the last few years, their foliage seem just a little less hardy than the regular C. radicals but still rewarding to grow and oh so tropical looking to boot. Roger
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Sabal Tamaulipas 1 2
by SailorBold- 4 followers
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Is anyone else on Palm Talk growing Sabal Tamaulipas? I planted 4 this spring and I have found them to be very fast growers. They are the only Sabals I have currently..
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Jan 03 2018 Deep South Snowstorm
by Anthony_B- 3 replies
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I moved to Leland, NC, the most immediate suburb to Wilmington, this past October from Philadelphia. I seem to have brought the cold with me. We have had record-breaking cold with three nights in a row in the teens, with another three nights in a row hitting mid-teens forecast starting tomorrow night. Today, we are under siege from a snowstorm that will undoubtedly go down in the record books. I know anywhere in the South has the potential to snow, but I didn't think I'd get this much snow this quickly during my very first year here! I have grown to despise snow from decades of shoveling and driving in it up north, but down here it is a special event. Plu…
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I posted about this particular Washingtonia, which I believe is filibusta, in early February. I collected a bunch of seeds from the ground at the base of this palm, located at 944 Bragg Blvd, Fayetteville NC, and sowed them in a shallow Taco Bell take away container. I placed the container on a warming mat and two weeks later, I have a ton of baby washies. The parent palm has been in its currently location since at least 2007, based on the oldest streetview images available on Google. Since then, this parent plant has experienced multiple single digit temps, and multiple freezing precipitation events, with seemingly no protection or care at all. I'm hoping the offspring f…
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Newly added Sabal Uresana.. 1 2
by SailorBold- 3 followers
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So excited! I finally picked up a Sabal Uresana from North Texas Cold Hardy palms. This has been on my wish list for some time.. and I had an area saved for a large sabal that has been sitting bare for a number of years now. The spot where i planted it was a toss up between a Mexicana and Uresana..as Mexicana seems to do well here... It will be interesting to see how well it will tolerate our dry winters. It seems all of the reports on cold damage and hardiness come from humid areas around the country... the one thing that interests me is it is native to an area that is fairly close to NM..so perhaps at least some of its growing conditions will be similar. Its…
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How did the Syagrus romanzoffiana do in that region did they take much damage? Did any die? All Queens died on North Padre Island, I was curious to see if those further south in Texas had any Queens that did not survive or if there were no casualties reported that far south? Thanks
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What will survive 1 2 3
by NBTX11- 1 follower
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Any guesses as to what will survive in Texas. Here is my prediction. Virtually all palms north of Waco - DEAD. Maybe someone eeks out a Sabal or Windmill in Dallas Austin - All W. Robusta and Date palms - Dead. W. Filifera, Sabal Palmetto, and Sabal Mexicana live for the most part. Still some deaths there. San Antonio. 50 percent of W. Robusta - Dead. Some surprise and live. All queen palms dead. Some date palms dead. Probably most dates survive. Every W. Filifera, Sabal, etc live on. The infamous riverwalk mules live after enduring damage. Houston. Queen palms dead. A lot of Robusta dead maybe 25 or 30 percent Every zone push zone 9 and 10 …
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Some palms after winter in Holland 1 2 3
by Axel Amsterdam- 4 followers
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I took some street pictures of survivors in the western parts of Holland. Washingtonia outside UHI of Amsterdam, around 14 miles from the coast unprotected
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My 6 year coconut tree in Houston
by Coconut Jared- 2 followers
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There are not many people keeping coconut trees in Houston, so I would like to share mine. I bought 6 coconut trees in the summer of 2018. They were just sprouted coconuts back then. I live in Pearland Texas, inside Houston city limits. Of the 6 coconut trees, 2 live today. The 4 that died were in pots. 1 of the living ones is in a pot and is still quite small. But I will focus on the one that is in the ground. The attached pictures were taken this year during the freeze that got into the mid teens. The tree actually took 12 hours of 28-32 degree weather before I could get to it. After that it was wrapped up as you can see with a 1500 watt infrared heater pointed…
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And no, the unprotected 7f these saw was not my concern. Will let this "stew", more to the story in due time
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Wilt Stop on Queen Palm? 1 2 3 4
by Dartolution- 2 followers
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As winter approaches I am preparing for the few nights we get where temps dip below the 30F mark for extended periods. In an effort to preserve the queen palm I bought back this late summer, I doubled potted it (still in the nursery pot) into a large ceramic frost proof pot. Then placed a heating coil (the kind you get for pipes) around the base, and backfilled with pebbles, wrapping the heat coil around the pot, then leaving around 6 ft to extend and wrap around the trunk if needed. So far we've had temps down to 28 very briefly, with no observable damage to the queen palm. However, temps are supposed to dip down to 20F for a few nights this upco…
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Backyard paradise in North Texas 1 2
by Sabal King- 1 follower
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So I've been lurking here and getting involved periodically but haven't officially gotten a chance to say hello. We're just north of Dallas and build our dream pool and backyard last year (still have more to do) and with that, I've always wanted palms.. We are new to Texas, and where we're from (IL) we'd never be able to have much of anything... so here we are! We have a little bit of land so I'm doing my best to add palms where possible. This will serve as my official progress thread as well. We finished the pool in October, and originally planted five Windmills and three Sabal Texana (small size). Lost one windmill during the storm, jury still out on the Texana…
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Trunk diameter variation in Sabal palmetto
by DavidMac- 2 followers
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We have a little over 450 Sabal palmetto growing in the main campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee,FL zone 8b that show considerable variation. One of the things that has interested me is the difference in trunk diameter in specimens- I realize that there are a number of factors that can contribute to such variation-but I supect that genetics plays a strong role. Do you know of anyone who has documented some of these differences and/or has propagated "skinny" or "stocky" Sabal palmettos? Here is a photo showing some of this variation-one is growing at the Sandels Building, the other is behind the Strozier Library.
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Chamaedorea Microspadix 1 2 3
by DAVEinMB- 112 replies
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Not mine but thought I'd share. This is a clump I got from @Laaz last year that I gave to my buddy. It wasn't protected this past winter so it at one point was covered in ice and saw 19F a couple times. It really is a shame that these aren't more readily available given how tough and tropical looking they are. Maybe one day big box will start offering these
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Palms That Are Hardy To Oregon 1 2 3
by PlantDad- 2 followers
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I have lived in Oregon my whole life and have had a profound interest in growing palms and other exotic plants my whole life. I have been curious about what I can grow here. Oregon has many different climates. I live in Keizer, Oregon, which is a cool Mediterranean climate. It is classified as zone 8b but I have never seen it get below 18 degrees. People grow Trachycarpus fortunei and there are some very large specimens around town. I am currently growing Butia capitata in a pot. In the neighboring city of Salem, Oregon I see tons of Trachycarpus fortunei and up in the hills of South Salem there are some very large specimens of Butia capitata growing in the ground with n…
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