COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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This happened a few nights ago it shook my house like a small earthquake hit and temporarily set off multiple smoke alarms inside my house (flood of ions?) simultaneously as a loud explosion sounded! Neighbor reported a reddish to yellowish flash that lasted “several seconds” knocking out his internet for around 10 minutes. Prior to the lightening strike this Washy looked in textbook form and was perfectly healthy, before the top of the crown (now completely flat) was vaporized and blasted into a million pieces all over my neighbors yard along with the corkscrew spiral scar that tore through the entire trunk all the way to the ground as pictured below:
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cold hardy Getting Ready for Winter
by GregVirginia7- 1 follower
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Getting the palms ready for winter. The Brazoria has an umbrella to keep some of winter’s cold rain off the crown...took a cylindrical growing cage and opened it up to form the back that holds the frost cloth and umbrella. Front is open to the southern sun. lights at the base of the trunk somewhat insulated with frost cloth will give the base warmth it may need if the temps get into the teens. I’ve since loosened the string around the trunk base as they can throw off quite a bit of heat when concentrated this way. The Trachy gets lights up the trunk for looks mostly but I concentrate around the crown to try and save it if the leaves ever fried but honestly, it’s been…
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Beaucarnea recurvata In Washington, DC
by jwf1983- 13 replies
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We bought this Ponytail Palm at a local home and garden center 2.5 years ago. It was pretty small, as indicated in the picture below. Shortly after that photo, we moved to a house in the NoMa/Capitol Hill neighborhood in DC that had a little yard, and since then, we’ve planted a Trachy f., Sabal minor, as well as some Sagos and a Strawberry Guava. This Ponytail Palm has been the biggest surprise, as it appears to be far more cold tolerant that I had ever expected, having spend the last two winters outside on our patio/yard, pushing through winter, and continuing to grow and flourish during the warm season. The only thing used as protection was a white frost cloth that…
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Botany Bay Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina This is from the low country of South Carolina. Maybe not as palmy as the tropics, but it does have palms and a fascinating beauty all to its own. http://wanderingtrader.com/
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Radicalis finally flowering.
by Laaz- 13 replies
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And the first two to flower look like a male & a female.
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How hot is too hot
by Palmlover_78- 1 follower
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I have a Windmill Palm on my patio in a container, and we have been getting a very hot heat wave for our region. 30 + is this too hot for a Windmill? If so how do i keep it cooler ,it is warm even in the shade.. Thanks a lot
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Will I harm the palm if I chop off its spear?
by Sandy Loam- 13 replies
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This probably sounds like a silly question, but I am a novice. I recently had to cram a queen palm into my car. In order to make it fit, I had to chop the fronds off, including the spear. I chopped off about 90% of the spear, so I hoping that I did not actually harm the growth point. The point where growth begins appears to deep inside the bud and I do not believe that I chopped that part off. Is my palm in trouble?
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Full Windmill
by Chester B- 1 follower
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Driving around the other day and saw this nice tra chy, with a ton of fronds. Don't usually see them like this as people like to trim them a lot. Sorry for the picture quality, I was in a moving vehicle.
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Winter protection for Pindo Palm in 7b
by knikfar- 13 replies
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This will be my pindo palm's first winter in the ground. I've planted it in, what I think is, a nice microclimate. It's about 10' away from the east wall of my house, 5' away from the west wall of my greenhouse and about 4' away from the south side of a large willow oak. The oak is at least 50' tall but I've had the lower canopy trimmed up to allow sunlight at the base. It'll get full sunshine from the early morning until early afternoon in the winter. That being said, I'm in Raleigh, NC, zone 7b. I'm planning to have to protect my pindo a few nights every winter. There will definitely be some winters, like the past two, where I won't but I can't count on that. So I'm won…
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Happy Spring to Everyone! This will be the first post to evaluate the winter damage to my palms here in zone 8a on the westside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The winter overall was quite wet with soil moisture nearly constant from late November through January. Temperatures during this period were cool to moderate with only a few blasts of chilly air, with no days being below freezing. The absolute low I recorded at my weather station was 12F and I reached 15F about 4 times with several more lows between 17 and 20F. Winter was quite short lived thanks to an unusually mild fall with nights below 32 not really setting in until the beginning of December. Rainfal…
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Sabal minor (inquiry)
by RyManUtah- 1 follower
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Anybody have experience growing any Sabal minor varieties in full inland sun? Curious.. have had success with small Sabal palmetto, which isn’t an understory species. I’ve had mixed results with Sabal miamiensis, which is an understory species.
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Sabal 'DeFuniak' Plant Delights
by Allen- 13 replies
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Just saw this and thought some of you might be interested in it. It's a odd one. A palmetto hybrid of some sort with a bermudiana like trunk. https://www.plantdelights.com/products/sabal-defuniak
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How much space does a Pindo need?
by Chester B- 2 followers
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For those of you that have just planted your first smaller pindo palms, they may need more space than you anticipated. Plan accordingly!
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100% Truely Canadian
by Las Palmas Norte- 1 follower
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I was given a gift today, one of which is truly Canadian. A friend and fellow palm enthusiast stopped for a visit and garden tour today. We live on Vancouver Island, the largest island in the eastern Pacific ocean. His Butia capitata growing in Victoria, British Columbia, is a large flowering and fruiting palm. This in itself is a rarity in Canada, moderated by the Pacific ocean, is unique to what many people around the world believe is a land of ice and snow. Here we are mainly zone 8b to 9a and Butia can be grown to maturity. I have what is most certainly the first ever Butia (Jelly palm) preserve grown, made and packaged on Canadian soil. Behold a Canadian first, …
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Sabal early summer surprise
by Chester B- 1 follower
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This winter was the worst one I experienced and as a result I lost a number of smaller palms and had a number of spear pulls. This week alone I found three more palms exhibiting damage now that we have really warmed up to summer like temperatures. Two of the early casualties were a Sabal uresana and a Sabal causiarum both in the ground for three years. I left the stumps in place “just in case” with the plan on waiting until the end of June to officially call it. Well to my surprise the Uresana started growing last week and just today I noticed the causiarum had moved. First pic is uresana showing some blue/green and the second is the causiarum that has grown and covered a…
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PNW Jungle Progress
by BeyondTheGarden- 13 replies
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I had the idea to make a jungle garden in my back yard while I was in Thailand in January of 2020. Started researching cold hardy jungle plants and began planting when I returned stateside. April 2020 July 2020 June 21 Jul 22
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Trachycarpus selection for 7a turning to 6b
by David_K- 13 replies
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Hello palmers, sorry for any problems, i am new to the Palm Talk. When i got interested into palms, my friend got too and he wants a palm for his garden. We've chosen trachy because they are most hardy and pretty beautiful. I dont really know which one is best. We live in the Czech Republic in the one of warmest climates in here. The zones here are 7a-6b, just something between. I wonder which one type should i get and how big. The orders are fast growing and tree-type. I thought the Tra takil bageshwar is good but, uno, i dont have palms on garden yet so and i am planning to put outside a washie, not a trachy Thank you for help and feedback.
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The look of a Mule palm?
by sashaeffer- 13 replies
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Can a Mule palm look more like a Pindo than a Queen? seems like most pictures I've seen on the web the leaves are more soft like a Queen but arch like a Pindo. Here are pics of two palms that I bought from same person. First pic are of the "mule" and last pic are of a Pindo. While I can see the "mule" is much more green, it's fronds are more stiff like a Pindo, but also much closer together than the true Pindo palm. I can't say it's been a real fast grower, but steady..just like the Pindo. "Mule" Pindo
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Pindo fruiting in northern zones? Any luck?
by jfrye01@live.com- 13 replies
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Hello all:) I was wondering if those of you who grow Butia's up in northern zones have had any luck with them fruiting? I'm a 6b, I was wondering if it's possible...
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Spring update
by Peter Timmermans- 13 replies
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After a mild winter my 7 deciduous Magnolia's and snake's head fritillaries are in full bloom. My Waggy's and Trachy's started to drop their blue seeds and new flowerstalks are on their way. Palms and Magnolia's make a perfect match in spring.
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Maryland Palms - July Update
by LasPalmerasDeMaryland- 13 replies
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Sabal ‘Louisiana’ #1 This little guy is growing slowly but surely. The spear in the middle is starting to make itself more prominent.
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Canary island grow advice
by palm789- 13 replies
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So i noticed my CiDP is still young from when i bought it back in june,and it does not have a trunk yet just the main petioles with the sharp leaves. Is there a way to speed up the growth either now or spring so i can get to see some more trunk and enhance its hardiness? Back in june i changed pot from the small original plastic pot to a ceremic pot 2 inch bigger (i read instructions about pot size). and i fed it once a week with miracle gro multi purpose feed and i also watered it when the top of soil was dry.but nothing has seemed to budge. Any advice?
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I was in Sedona, AZ recently and was surprised to find several mature (what I thought to be) Washingtonia Robusta. Where I saw the specimens in the photo was technically Zone 8a per the USDA Map. Sedona typically sees a dozen or so freezes per year and the occasional freeze down into the upper teens. I'm curious how these palms have managed to survive these temps for this long. Can anyone tell by the photo if these are actually Washingtonia Filibusta? I'm also curious if there are any members of this forum from Texas or Louisiana who had Washingtonia Robusta that survived the deep freeze of February, 2021 unprotected.
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Needle Palm
by ChrisA- 1 follower
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Hello All, I bought one several years ago, a 1 gallon from WalMart but it didn't even survive the summer so I had no way to test the winter hardiness. My soil tends to be dry (sand, stone and some clay/caliche) and lacks anything you could call organic matter. Even in an area of my backyard which receives regular watering it succumbed in July of that year. What kind of soils are best for Needle Palm, and how much moisture do they need? In my climate I am used to regularly watering everything other than native vegetation (which I also water to keep it looking good, and to keep alive during droughts) so I would be willing to amend the soil accordingly. …
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Butia Odorata var. Roman Candle :O
by DAVEinMB- 3 followers
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I drive by this thing to and from work everyday. I gotta say, it kinda drives me nuts however it is unique. Anyone ever see one growing like this?
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