COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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Queen palm frond suddenly falls over. Why?
by Palm and Pool- 5 replies
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My Queen palm's newest front went from straight up to straight down. Any ideas? This has happened before, but then it was soon after a freeze, one of the first new fronds to emerge. This time the palm has sent up several new fronds but suddenly the new one snaps in half and hangs down. We had a bad freeze 15F eight months ago, so I wouldn't think that the cause. We had a cool spring and a brutal hot summer and drought, so those are the conditions. I water it every day, sometimes twice. Sometimes I let the water run on it for an hour or so, maybe once every 10 days or so. I hope I am doing something wrong so I can stop! I would appreciate any …
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Queen palm fronds drooping
by Tony Taylor- 0 replies
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First timer here. I have a mature queen palm that over the last couple of years the new fronds come out, look good for a few weeks, and then droop all the way down. I live in south Louisiana and a number of years ago we had a pretty significant freeze, although I don't remember it dipping below 25 degrees. Seems the problem has been since the freeze although this may be coincidental? Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Queen palm growing in southern NC
by Alex Anthony- 12 replies
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Not sure if I got the image to load but this is a pure Queen palm in Wilmington,NC. I bought it at HD in 2012. It has lived indoors in various pots and locations until we moved here 4 years ago and planted it outside. It has survived winters on the south side of the house with the usual Christmas lights and wrapping on the coldest ( 19 deg F ) nights. It is impossible to protect the fronds so they burn extensively but come back as the weather warms. It is as high as the top of the roof now and the trunk is huge at the base. I'm posting it because I think it's notable for it's size at this latitude. The other two large plants are an Angel Trumpet and a Robusta that was ab…
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Queen Palm in Myrtle Beach? 1 2
by Pee Dee Palms- 2 followers
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I've heard some people say that Queen Palms can live in Myrtle Beach. For all the years I've been here I've never seen any of them. Recently we've been having 9A-9B weather. So does anyone know the exact answer?
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Queen palm mutation
by jmniner- 5 replies
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So I was driving on the freeway and I see this palm that was so full of fronds. I wondered what kind of palm it was, so I looked up in Google and I see it's a mutated queen palm. What does it like 5 heads?
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Queen palm paradise in NW Florida
by Estlander- 10 replies
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There's a restaurant in Fort Walton Beach on Okaloosa Island that has well over hundred Queens on it's premises and around it, with plenty more set aside waiting to be planted. Have been hearing about this place for years but haven't got around to checking it out until today. Queens are not exactly lining the streets around these parts, so needless to say I absolutely enjoyed being among those beauties. Gonna be interesting to see how they will do in the winters to come.
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Queen palm planted
by NBTX11- 1 follower
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No it’s not a foot away from fence even though it looks like it. It’s 6 feet away. Predict how large and how old I will get this palm.
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Queen Palm Planting 1 2
by Dartolution- 2 followers
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So today I picked up about an 8ft queen palm (syagrus romanzoffiana) from HD for about $50. She's just barely fitting in my house as is. I am in 8a, and while I know this isn't the best cold hardy palm, I wanted to give one a try my very hot south facing back yard mostly because they are fast growers and look beautifully tropical. I plan on leaving it in the nursery pot this fall and winter and planting in early spring after frost. If she's going to have any chance of making it long term its going to be planted in my back yard. It being south facing, very hot in the summer and warms first and quickly in winter with no trees around to shade it …
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Queen Palm Protection Issues
by JLM- 6 replies
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I am having issues protecting my Queen in the backyard. Its a lot bigger than it seems. Unfortunately, im thinking that i may need to hurricane cut the palm in order to make this work. Hurricane cutting as it cutting most of the fronds off. I really DO NOT want to do that, but if it means that it has a greater chance of surviving, ill do it. We are having troubles getting these fronds tied because theres so many fronds and we dont want to lean the ladder up against the palm. What do yall think? Is there any other way? Should i just let it go and hope it survives? Ill post pictures if its needed.
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Queen palm recovery/ fertilizer
by MarcusH- 3 followers
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Second year in a row where my Queens were hit hard by the polar vortex , left with only brown fronds. Last year my older Queen pushed out close to 6 fronds by the end of the growing season . I use a slow release fertilizer Miracle-Gro Shake n feed ratio 8-2-12 and my soil is loam clay. Question would additional manganese fertilizer hurt the palm or is it just waste of money in order to promote faster growth ?
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I have a queen palm that survived the Texas winter storm. It had a spear rotting that I pulled out and trimmed it down until only fresh growth was there. Went from 10 to 8 feet so still a healthy big palm. It has since produced two small leaves. It finally sprouted a big spear a few weeks back but it doesn't coming out more than a foot , looks green and healthy and opening up. However it is not shooting out like I expected it to. I have tried to fertilize and give water but no change so any advice on any action I can take? I am afraid if I don't get enough fonds before winter it won't survive another winter.
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Queen Palm survived low 16°F light protection only 1 2
by MarcusH- 1 follower
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After a harsh winter with the first cold front that moved in late December 2022 with lows of 16,21,24,28°F and another cold front with temps around 30°F and freezing rain this Queen gave its best to survive. Only a bucket and a thin bedsheet wrapped around , no heat sources were installed. The strong wind made the temperature even a lot colder than 16 degrees . This one deserves a medal and as everybody can see its recovering well. It completely defoliated though. This juvenile didn't even reach its cold hardiness yet. I extensively deep watered all my palms incl. My Pygmy Palm. I didn't lose one of our palms they all survived and recovering well. My friends deep wat…
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Queen palm yellow spots
by MarcusH- 1 follower
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Hi everyone, Does anybody know what this queen palm is missing? The spots been on the fronds since I would say 4 months . It grows fine but even the new fronds show signs of yellow spots . Planted it in May this year. We have clay soil and I fertilized it about 2 months ago . In the hot summer I water it 2 to 3 times a week now I'm down to 1 time a week since it's colder and we finally receive more rain in SoCen Texas.
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Queen Palms in Central NC
by SwampDog- 2 followers
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So I was at the Lowe's the other day, and I stumbled across the weirdest thing. They had Zone 9 and 10 palm trees (Queen Palm, Adonidia Palm; Christmas Palm, Pygmy Dates, Bottle Palm). This was weird for two reasons. For one the fact that they were in stock, not just one or two but a good number of them, so many that the Lowe's had them in two sections of the garden center. Second, they are in stock at a store in a 7b hardiness zone. Also it's interesting that they were even outside and not in the indoor portion of the store to begin with. They all looked pretty healthy, no signs of damage on any of them. I decided to pick up one of the Queen Palms and a group of Mus…
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I have a 10 feet, one 4 feet and 4 small Queen palms. After we had the big freeze in Dallas I thought most of my queens were shot given I had no power for 8 hours at a time so only protection was 4 layers of frost cloth. I kept cutting down my small ones and gave them up for dead. Until we moved one and I realized it had some green on the trunk so I put it in a pot and low and behold it is shooting up a new green spear! Despite me pulling out a rotten one a month ago. Problem is my 10 and 4 feet ones, the big one has about a foot of green fonds but just last week I pulled a spear from it that had grown but recently stopped. I poured some copper solution again (done s…
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Queen Palms in El Paso?
by ChrisA- 1 follower
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Hello Everybody, Driving back from San Antonio last weekend I was going through El Paso on I-10 and noticed a Taco Cabana. It is well known that this chain prefers to plant palms to add that tropical feel at their restaurant locations, but I was stunned when I examined more closely that there were three good-sized Queen Palms in the front hell-strip! Google maps shows these as being planted after the terribly cold vortex that slammed the region in February 2011. These were likely planted either later on in 2011 or in 2012. The December 2012 street view shows very young queen palms which grew greatly by 2015. Looks like they normally have the fronds singed in…
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Queen palms in Greensboro 1 2
by NCFM- 2 followers
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As I was driving home from Lowe’s tonight I noticed these two new additions outside of a local business. Queen palms I think? Of course they have zero chance of surviving long term here, unless they use some serious winter protection methods, but still pretty cool while they last lol
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Queen Palms in San Antonio 1 2 3 4
by ChrisA- 2 followers
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Hello Palm Friends, Reading back in the posts it seems Queen Palms are not long term viable in the San Antonio area due to some pretty severe cold weather that comes every 10 or so years. While walking in the King William area I came across a very large sized Queen palm and was curious how long it had been there to have grown so big. Google street view goes back to 2007 on this street and shows a good size Queen palm in the residence at the corner of Adams St and Forcke St. This queen looked obliterated after the cold winter of 2011, but has since rebounded quite nicely. The photo is from a visit in May of this year. Any others in the Alamo Cit…
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QUEEN PALMS IN WEST OCEAN CITY SURVIVED
by climate change virginia- 0 replies
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I recently went to ocean city and I saw multiple queen palms that survived at a go kart track and I saw queen palms that had green on the center spear and other leaves. it only got down to 20-25f around there I didnt get any pictures sadly
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Queen Palms up in the HD of California?
by Jubaea_James760- 1 follower
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Yes sir! We have some Queens around town in the HD ( High Desert) believe or not. Some have been here several years too, but am not sure if any are pre 2007 or not? I only know of 1 pre 2007 one because it was planted at my friend's house in Victorville. I'm not sure how its doing as of now, its been about 2 or 3 years since I drove by it & it wasn't looking good. New owners are not watering & fertilizing enough. So are these on borrowed time or permanent residence??
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Queen seedling pinnate speed variability
by Kailua_Krish- 0 replies
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Hey all, So I was thinking of something today while at the big box store, why do some queen seedlings go pinnate really early but others form very large strap leaves first. Its not a sun thing because you can see variability in a group of seedlings grown in the same conditions. Ive noticed that the "Abreojos" queens keep the strap leaves for a long time while the smaller Uruguay queens go pinnate early with very tiny strap leaves before. Perhaps its related to the robustness of the eventual plant? Thoughts? -Krishna
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Queen variations
by NWpalms@206- 1 follower
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Noted some differences between my Santa Catarina Queens and Uruguay Queens. To start the color (different source so don’t read too much into that maybe nutrients) SCQ darker deeper green while UQ is more neon, bright. SCQ has long, thinner, droopy, arching leafs with not much ridges, UQ is erect shorter leaves and has prominent ridges much stiffer to the touch. And the trunk, and petioles on the SCQ are clean and green just a ridge of the fibrous papery edge. UQ are very much more of the fibrous material, it’s basically covering the trunk. They are clearly different almost in every way, not clue as to what this means but I took these notes and thought I’d share.
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This is a Google Street View capture of younger queens planted in front of a Walmart in Starke, FL in 2008: Here are the same ones in 2018: Gainesville Airport, roughly 20 miles SOUTH, recorded a low of 17F in the Jan 2010 freeze: Definitely interesting to find! Queens seem to be more hardy than a lot of people give them credit for.
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Queens in Savannah, GA
by NCFM- 16 replies
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Sorry for the low picture quality
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Quesion about butia pindo blue x jubaea
by Love them palms- 1 follower
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Recieved my jubaea x butia pindo blue today.my question is would it be safer to plant this now or wait till spring. I got this tree off eBay From backyard paradise nursery From palmsgalor777. I do believe that she is a member here That goes by the handle IdolLurker. It looks great
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