Washingtonia Filifera, -6F

[Collectorpalms]

Whew! One alive. Others not. Trachycarpus and Sabals were dead.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Collectorpalms

[Collectorpalms]

[amh]

5 minutes ago, Collectorpalms said:

I'm seeing green leaves on the trachycarpus, is this a different location?

[Collectorpalms]

Same town but on way home. 2 large Trachycarpus up against Building with green. Sabals not looking hot. 

[JLM]

Someone needs to grab some seeds from that filifera once it recovers enough to flower, then gorilla plant them somewhere lol

 

[NBTX11]

Where is this?

Edit, nevermind, I see it's Corsicana.

I know of a decent sized Filifera way further north than this in Wichita Falls, 100 miles NW of Ft. Worth, and a large Sabal in Burkburnett, 1 mile from Oklahoma.  Next time I am up there, I will try to check to see if they lived.   The low in Wichita Falls was -8, and they had 5 nights below 10F.

Edited May 10, 2021 by NBTX11

[necturus]

I was just in Dallas. Saw a few palmettos with new green leaves. Everything else looked bad. Sabal minors look like nothing happened.

[atlamtapalms]

One could argue that a deeply established Filiferas are some of the hardiest palms or the hardiest trunking palm. Especially since they probably regrow faster on rebound than a S. Birmingham.

Edited May 10, 2021 by atlamtapalms

[Collectorpalms]

1 hour ago, necturus said:

I was just in Dallas. Saw a few palmettos with new green leaves. Everything else looked bad. Sabal minors look like nothing happened.

Around the Corner of 45 and Garland just before Arboretum there was a street intersection planting of minors. They were toasty. Greater than 30% evenly toasted. Shocked me! I figured no one would believe me, but I was driving just into town, so I didn’t take picture. They were fully exposed to the open sky, unlike everywhere else I saw. 

Edited May 10, 2021 by Collectorpalms

[aegean]

That's fantastic. -6 F !

Washingtonia filifera is really an amazing palm tree. Extremely cold hardy, growing fast, impressive look, very tough. There is nothing that comes close to it, if you put all these things together.

It clearly profitated a lot from being planted so close to that large building. There is a lot less radiative freeze so close to the building and, depending on the wind direction and strength it can also reduce advective freeze slightly.

Same with the Trachycarpus.

 

[Collectorpalms]

6 hours ago, JLM said:

Someone needs to grab some seeds from that filifera once it recovers enough to flower, then gorilla plant them somewhere lol

 

This would qualify for the Filifera purity test. There isn’t even another hybrid Robusta alive for miles. 
These certainly love/benefit from the soil of the blackland prairie. They max out In girth that allowed to do better than other locations with less extreme lows.

[jwitt]

On 5/10/2021 at 2:22 AM, Collectorpalms said:

These certainly love/benefit from the soil of the blackland prairie. They max out In girth that allowed to do better than other locations with less extreme lows.

Curious if the "blackland prairie" is more alkaline?