COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Sabal Minor
by GregVirginia7- 8 replies
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Two Sabal Minors doing well in Bethany Beach, Delaware...they’ve been unprotected and in-ground since, I think, 2017...they get a couple rounds of Palmgain and lots of water when I’m here...I do cover the area around them with a thick layer of pine needles for winter. Very happy with their performance...They really have pretty substantial crowns and maybe they’ll start trunking just a little bit, though I don’t think minors have that characteristic...however, my Brazoria at home is getting the beginnings of a nice trunk! I have three offspring growing in Virginia from these and look forward to the same cold hardy success with them.
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Fat and Thin
by DAVEinMB- 2 replies
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These two are part of a row of sabals in downtown myrtle. Always interesting to me to see the trunk diameter differences in these palms. I've always figured that differences in growing conditions (amount of light, water, temperature, etc) played a major role in making this happen but you can throw that theory out the window with these.
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What is this? (photos)
by Palmfarmer- 1 follower
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Hey is this a Parajubaea or just a really scrawny Butia?
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Weather
by Jcalvin- 11 replies
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This is in the wrong section, but it doesn’t look like the Weather/Climate board gets a lot of attention. Remove if this is against the rules. I was just wondering, for those that live in the SE, how much rain have you accumulated in the past month or two. I don’t know exactly how much we’ve accumulated here in SE Georgia. The climate sites that I know of are limited to the amount of data they collect. I haven’t found a website that collects rainfall data for my city or any cities that are near it. My parents have a 12” rain gauge, and they emptied it at the beginning of July. They say that it overflowed once about two weeks ago, and just in …
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Sabal Causiarum x Sabal Uresana
by ZPalms- 2 replies
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Is it even possible and has anyone ever tried? Causiarums would be cool with a silver variation if possible with highlands
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Central Oregon coast CIDP
by Chester B- 4 replies
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So I heard rumours of CIDP north of Gold Beach, Oregon and so far I have seen two of similar size in North Bend/Coos Bay. The city is primarily zone 9a but there are some pockets of 9b along the shore. I would say this is officially trunking. Looks like they mound planted it a bit but has more trunk then you can see in the photo due to the brick pony wall.
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Coconut Protection Ideas
by ZPalms- 3 replies
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This is separate from my coconut thread, but I wanted opinions from people here, I got some ideas from @Walt but of course his method for protecting a coconut would work in some way, but the problem is for me in my region my coconut would defoliate all the time or just straight up die and would require me to build a box around my coconut but no way of giving it sunlight since when it's cold here it stays cold even if it gets into the 40s its still not warm enough for the coconut, I don't want it to look like garbage all the time. So I got to thinking about bubble tents which would keep the coconut dry but also allow me to trap heat without having to do a drastic chop to t…
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Painful protection 1 2
by Swolte- 2 followers
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============================================ WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART ============================================ Two more days to go and predictions for College Station, TX were still hovering around 5F (and that's just the Euro model, see pic1). Drastic action was needed and I decided to cut the palms down so I can at least protect them more easily. All these palms are between 3-5 years in the ground and planted from 5G (some were starting to trunk). Here's what I did. A very low-cost method. This is a first time for me and I, frankly, didn't have a lot of time to research better methods. Do let me know if you have suggestions for better meth…
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Evening views
by ColumbusPalm- 2 replies
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I sure am obsessed with these palms. They are having a great season. Will be hard to leave some of them but am glad I’ll be back by the lake and a little warmer (or so the map says) next year.
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Parajubaea Sunkha 1 2 3
by Laaz- 82 replies
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Another shock. This went through the 16F ice / snow storm & looks like it survived. I thought is was dead, cut the top off and sure enough it is coming back.
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Identification of this palm
by Tim1111- 7 replies
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Hello, I'm new to this forum, I hope I'm doing this correctly. I live in Albuquerque, NM and I've lived here going on 5 years. I'm happy because we are fortunate enough to grow a few types of palms here! I've encountered several Trachycarpus (Windmill Palms) and needle palms, even a couple Mexican fan palms. However, just yesterday, I discovered not to far from my home, these gems, but I'm not yet as knowledgeable as many of you are and I would like to know what type of palm this is please. It has to be a type of cold hardy palm because we had a rough winter (Zone 7b) where last winter we recorded low temps down to 12f/-11c three times and even 2 days where our high…
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Took them a year to recover! 1 2
by yabazid- 2 followers
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I got four windmills field grown each around 3-4 ft trunk and transplanted to my property. Planted in full sun (sun all day long) and exposed to all kinds of wind. This was around April. I apologize for the pic quality but this all I could find from that date
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To Transplant or Not? (Trachy)
by ColumbusPalm- 3 replies
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Hey All, I've been thinking about the move I will be making in the spring back closer to the lake. I think leaving the minors and needle here for the next owners would be ok since they have a decent shot making it unprotected with their size and 2 full seasons in the ground, but my Trachy is almost certainly going to die with new owners. Knowing this, would you try to dig it out and take it to the new place? If so, should I grow in a large pot for a season to get it some vigor and plant the following season? Of course I want to take it but want to give it the best chance if I do so would love some opinions.
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Wanted to buy king palm seeds
by Bill Nanaimo- 1 follower
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I’m interested in growing a few King palms from seed can anyone recommend a good site to buy king palm seeds from
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Sago palms in North Carolina?
by happy1892- 1 follower
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Hello. My name is Nathaniel. I found some cycads that look like Sago palms (Cycas revoluta) here in Granville County, NC. I am not sure if they are Cycas revoluta because there are other Cycas species from the mountains in southern China that look similar, that are even more cold hardy than Cycas revoluta (http://www.cycadpalm.com/cold-tolerant-cycads--the--short-list-.html). I love cycads, and would like to raise some here in North Carolina. Also, would anyone know whether Zamia floridana (Florida Coontie) cycad would survive here in North Carolina? Here it says they survive down to 7F: https://seedrack.com/10.html I suspect the str…
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Help my Waggie is dying
by The3ngineer- 1 follower
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Not sure what’s going on but it continues to decline. The spears are growing well and come out a dark green but when they start opening they begin turning brown at the tips and progressively get worse. After the Texas freeze a couple of spears pulled but new ones came up fairly quickly. I’ve sprayed it with Southern Ag Palm nutritional spray but it didn’t help. I don’t see any pests. Any advice?
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Windmill new fronds brown
by charlotte palm guy- 0 replies
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This late Spring my windmill started growing in dead looking brown fonds. What’s odd is that old growth still is green and even though new growth is dead looking it still grows. The stem on these new ones is green but the fan part dead. See pics. And ideas? Charlotte NC located…
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Bismarckia nobilis north carolina?
by ZPalms- 2 followers
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Anyone have experience with this palm in north carolina? can or do they do well here?
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Texas Queens Palms After Freeze 2021 1 2
by Collectorpalms- 3 followers
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These are alive. Mine had made it though 14.5 but are dead. Looks like 2 in Sugar Land lived through low 10s. He is using Silver Queen and Litoralis as the same. They are not, Also how does he know what they? He should state their background. Most likely they are what was termed silver queens. If they are 30 years old, they may have been from offspring that survived in the RGV, Laredo or north Florida. Those were the silver queens. I had those, I had plants purchased from the RGV. My Litoralis were recent introduction ( Late 2000s) and I got my seedling from Jeff Marcus. I still have a 15 gallon Litoralis, and I have seeds from this past fall from my Silver Q…
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Trachycarpus Fortunei Sensitivity to Heat
by jwf1983- 2 followers
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I have two Trachycarpus Fortunei outside on our Washington, DC patio. They remain outside year round. Early on, I was convinced that winter extremes would test the hardiness of these two, but after a couple of years I've noticed more sensitivity to extreme heat than anything else. Both are in large pots and are about 3 feet high with fronds spreading about 4 feet wide. They get a good 6 hours of direct and indirect sunlight, with some obstruction of light due to a Sago alongside and in front of the Trachy). By mid July, despite watering every other day or as it appears to be needed the tips of the lower fronds appear slightly green/brown, with some of them appearing …
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Needle Palm at the Franklin Park Conservatory
by ColumbusPalm- 0 replies
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This has been there for a long time. I’ve always wanted to suggest to them to move it outside, now that I’m getting better with palms, also want to suggest to them to stop trimming it so severely! Either way, pretty cool to see one with such a big trunk in person.
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Mule and Company
by DAVEinMB- 8 replies
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Just a few August pics of a couple of my mules as well as accompanying plants in the mailbox bed. These 2 mules have been my slowest growing but have started to pick up pace this year. They've both been in these spots through 2 winters. In the bed with the larger one I've added some snow and summer asiatic jasmine, sweet potato vine, orange bird of paradise, American agave (thanks @Laaz), blue liriope, and some cordyline. I've been on the hunt for purple queens to add to the mix but no luck so far. Thanks for looking
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Austin Sabal palms
by Jtee- 8 replies
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Hello all. I will be in Austin in a few days and i was wondering if anyone knows of a nursery that sells small sabal palms of any variety? I’m limited on space so I’m definitely looking for 1-3 gallon sabals. Thanks for any replies.
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