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Street view, Pictured almost one year ago Feb 28, 2020.

Same palms from behind Feb 13, 2021. Their skirts began to fall off, kinda bummer too. Could have helped. I never trimmed them over 10ft for any added cold protection. Climbing fig and jasmine vine got stuck in skirts. I would never knowingly plant a washingtonia Robusta. Can you believe some of them were 1 gallon palms sold as filifera off eBay! But boy they tapped into Texas Oil. They grew better than most plants in Texas. I believe hundreds of thousands of them are going to be gone in Zone 8s. Home to millions of Texans. These plants lived off natural rainfall. I didn’t supplement them once established. There are at least 100 Washingtonia R within a couple miles radius of just me.

Saw this coconut in Fort myers, trunk was thicker then the nearby royals, have never seen one with such a wide trunk

Some Butia hybrids Recovering 1 year after 14.5F 2018. ( With a special Queen in picture 4, right)

Phoenix Sylvestris

Brahea Armata with Filifera on right and hybrid washingtonia on left. Very tall Sabal Mexicana (Many decades old) on far left in second picture. Older lower leaves tattered after lemon size hail previous 2 years.

Back corner CIDP. With Palmetto and Washingtonia Filfera and Hybrid double in first couple pictures. Robusta scattered in other pics. spring 2020. November 2018 after 14.5F February 2018.

Wanted to give an update here. The little guy is doing well and his first leaf is looking good! I had to repot him a few weeks ago since the quart container he was in was already getting crowded and I knew he’d appreciate more room. Given their proclivity for distress after root disturbances I felt like I was performing open heart surgery with how precise I had to be haha. His little leaf nub has really taken off since and we’re in full on strap leaf mode now.

I feel pretty confident that all my trunking sabals mexicana, palmetto, uresana and Trachycarpus species will live after the extreme cold in Dallas. 2F! Even if defoliated. All my feather palms are threatened. Will need copper fungicide treatment. Same with young braheas.

Dave, I think you could probably fetch an extra $5 a palm if you drive them out to Texas.

Wonder if all that seed on the chinensis is still viable haha. Today has been so weird. It's in the sweaty 80s and there are blooming magnolias and peaches despite low teens last week. And if anyone doubts there are palms in Houston, now is the time to drive down! Fried citrus everywhere too. Fried bushes, fried hedges, fried bamboo, fried trees, fried everything! The smell of rotting vegetation is pervasive

Thanks to everyone for the advice! Think I have a good plan now, this forum/site is fantastic. Attaching better pictures of the palms across the resaca from me for those who were interested. Going down to UT-RGV this weekend and will post pictures of the Royals from there soon.

Spring is near if it ain’t already here and I’ve got about 30 Archontophoenix tuckeri looking good. $25 each come and get. Grown from my own seeds from my own plants.

Palms are poor at the uptake of minor elements from the soil. It has been demonstrated that they recycle these nutrients from the older, senescent foliage into the newer growth. By removing older fronds prematurely the gardener is robbing the palm of hard-won nutrients. I used to have a link about this research, but I can't find it today. I believe it was done by Dr. Henry Donselman. Never the less, Washingtonia grows so quickly that I doubt this is a problem for the palm shown. This would be more an issue with slower growing species.

Filifera seedlings survived outdoors unprotected at central market in Dallas after the big freeze of 2F. It’s all about the snow.

I can’t speak for the state of any of the plants at the JF garden, but my magnolia Tamaulipas (originally from Peckerwood) survived the brutal cold in Dallas.

A week after the big storm. Some yellowing on the outer leaves but so far it firmly holds its green!

@Fusca that Chamaerops damage does not make any sense, doed it? I have 2 in the ground with both having about 3 ft of clear trunk. They both got leaf burn. I tugged on the spears a couple of days ago and both were still solid. They are both in the open and 20-30 ft apart. They were exposed to -2 F temps for an extended period. I will recheck them this weekend for certainty.

Rain finally stopped and had some temps in the 60s and 70s so figured I'd get a bit of a jump on the spring planting. I moved the clumping of bambusa oldhamii away from the house to give it more breathing room and replaced it with a ligustrum japonica. The nursery had a sole cordyline australis with 15" of clear trunk for $25 so i also snagged that while i was there. With the bamboo out of the way I had enough room to plant the ligustrum as well as the cordyline and one of the Uruguay queens i recently got from woodlanders. Pics below

Bam!! Ready to replace one of my Robusta later this year should any of my Robusta die.

Other, interesting, non- Legume type South African Native shrubs/ trees: Karoo Sagewood, Buddleja glomerta, Snapdragon family Karoo Num-Num, Carissa haematocarpa, Oleander/Plumeria family South African Wild Pear, Dombeya rotundifolia, Hibiscus family. Camphor Bush, Tarchonanthus camphoratus, Sunflower family. As the name implies, Leaves / Wood produce aromatic compounds/ terpenes. White Trumpet Thorn, Catophractes alexandri, ( Dormant, or a slightly cold fried, so not much to look at atm ). Spectacular small tree/ large bush that produces large, fragrant, trumpet-shaped white flowers during the warm season. Trumpet Tree family ) Karoo Gold, Rhigozum obovatum, Another outstanding South African member of the Trumpet Tree family. Produces Golden yellow flowers, vs. the white flowers of Trumpet Thorn.

The Satakentias took a while to build new leaves. Here they are in today's late afternoon sun. They both dropped their last leaves a week ago, Tues. Crownshaft color varies with time since the last leaf fell and maybe temperature. It's not constant.

Brahea decumbens, all three trithrinax species performed well as did mazari.

Silver serenoa growing.

There is a new bluffside hotel about to open in my neighborhood and as part of their project they were required to plant some natives on the adjacent bluff near the beach as well as above a public beach parking lot that is below the hotel. I wasn't sure what they were going to plant in the holes, but this morning's walk showed what went into some of the smaller ocean bluff holes which included some Dudleya species. The one below appears to me to be Dudleya edulis, but I'm not a specialist on these. I'll have to snap a photo of the other species I saw another morning. I didn't recognize the plant in the second photo, but these were interspersed with the Dudleyas as well. It was a bit disappointing to see ice plant interspersed in other areas of the steep slope above the parking lot, but at least they used a native tree from nearby, with small Torrey Pines. Unfortunately the top of the bluff had a nice walking trail and would be covered with Sea Lavender in bloom this time of year, but now we have another hotel.

Sabal mexicana unfrozen in Dallas after the big freeze. Most mexicanas are completely brown. Unprotected not near any mitigating structure.

This is the packing info the Easy Heat cables come in/with. The nice feature is that you can overlap the cable without it burning out like other cables as they are “ self regulating(SR)” This is just for everyone’s information. I am not selling anything here! I connect mine to a thermostat and set it to around 32 F

I would say that the ones that have green or are clearly alive after 14F are hybrids and not pure Robustas. Otherwise, I bet they continue to brown. Although not as bad as 89 for Houston. All Robustas did die. But what was the killing point, the duration or the ultimate low?? It would have been higher than the actually what happened to g bff e a complete raze. I think with the wide range of temps over a short area from Huntsville ( historic) to Galveston ( Just worst since 89) there will be a clearly defined line. Since I have a math brain, I think in terms of numbers not feelings.

@Ben in Norcal has a good method going. He has local arborists to dump their mulch on this front driveway. Free and a great workout!

Let us know how you make out. The manual made specific capacitor reference to 250V/60HZ and I would stick to that. We needed a capacitor on our A/C unit this past summer. A/C repair company came out and had part in his truck. The same part online was like $20 but he charged over $100. His time was billed separately so it was just the part. My husband called to ask if they had made a mistake on the invoice and promptly told no.

I agree, Will. I wish I had more mulch at the time (chipdrop doesn't work here, unfortunately). Anyway, I just wanted to give an update on the palms one week after the big freeze of 2021. As you all predicted, the small needle and Cherokee Sabal minor look unfazed. I also completely forgot I had a small Sabal Louisiana in the creek. I had left it completely unprotected. As you can see, it looks tasty (if plastic Flamingos would eat palms...).

I think the best thing to do is leave everything alone. They forget why tourist go there. The scenery like Coconut palms. The tropical look. That is what makes Miami. If you plant bunch of Canopy trees like oak trees you lose all of that. They are just wanting to spend money to say they did something like create jobs and feel good that might of did something to combat climate change. I think they are just trying make the local nurseries money. I do support the local residents in Miami Beach in what they want.

This I did. Cleaned the fruit off, stuck some in containers out in the hot sun, put others in a baggie (like I do with palm seeds) on a heat mat set at 95°. The fruits I collected had dropped from the trees and fruits were white colored and quite juicy. Maybe they weren't pollinated/viable? I sent some to seeds to @jimmyt and I don't believe he had any success either. Maybe I'll try some from a different tree in town...if we have any left!

Thought I’d throw in a couple shots of the unusual inflorescence of Wettinia hirsuta. Quite the agglomeration of pistils and stamens. Tim

Eating and peeing are overrated

My coconut palm this past September of 2020.

I have 3 Taylor Form Trachys ( and a number of seedlings that are all Taylor Forms or half Taylor Forms ) . When I got them from PDN in tiny pots they had spear pull for at least 4 years in the ground . Once they matured they outgrew spear pull completely and have survived 4F here in Winston-Salem . The Taylor form on the left is a male . The Trachy to its right is an unknown female , and the small plant in the pot , in the picture below that , is most likely half Taylor Form and half that unknown female . The below those pictures are pictures of a female Taylor Form with inflorescences and below that is a picture of a small Trachy that is from that Taylor Form female and probably a Taylor Form male from the backyard .

Just stay away, far away from the brown or black crap sold in bags. The dyes used are not copacetic with living tissue.

Moving along to some Aloes and interesting, uncommon South African Native shrubs/small trees.. Lots to see, but few in flower atm.. Some of the smaller Aloe looked to have been nipped a bit by animals/ the cold in a few places. That said, the stand out Aloe atm flower-wise, Aloe Ferox.. Pretty much all their specimens were flowering. Some other interesting species in bloom as well. Aloe Ferox hybrid Some random Aloes: Aloe X " David Verity " More A. ferox Aloe lutescens, up in the South African collection. Aloiodendron X " Hurcules ".. Needing a friend to talk to.. ( Great spot to plant more.. Hint , hint, lol )

They have been saying this for years. I lived in Miami for seven years before I moved to Houston. There is a very vocal group of people who push for this issue. I used to see them at city council meetings, it made me so angry. I remember one time I was at their meetings and they proposed for a resolution that prohibited coconut palms to be planted on public streets because coconuts were killing people as they fell lol... their rhetoric was something like "save the children" it was crazy. But yes, trees are wonderful until the salt damages them. Coconuts can take it. Miami is always going to be palmy. At the house I was living in Pembroke Pines, the HOA didn't allow coconut palms to be planted on people's backyards. Apparently people were throwing the coconut shells at each other. That city has a lot of issues. My neighbor then had chickens inside the closet because the HOA didn't allow them but she used them for the eggs. Another neighbor had parrots and argued with them all the time... just Miami being Miami.

Good idea Kim, I could certainly flood this thread, my phone is packed with too many rainbow photos. Yesterday afternoon.

I found a photo of the mansion: But no photo of the palmettos.

The queens look decent and it’s almost March. Northampton County, VA

First and foremost: the palms. Sunken Gardens has an incredible diversity of palms throughout. Native Sabals, 100+ year-old royals, 40 foot tall coconuts, and the tallest majesty I’ve ever seen amongst others. Pretty sure my neck hurts from constantly looking skyward: