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I Will Not Pay Money for a Washy


Xerarch

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Don’t get me wrong, both Washingtonia are beautiful and worthy palms, and both do well in my climate, although filifera does not look its best here. It’s just that they are so common and can be weedy. So anyway I won’t buy one, but would I accept a free one as a volunteer in my yard? I have been telling myself no, but I don’t know, they grow so fast and won’t keep me up at night during cold events. I can’t fill my yard up with only tender stuff, so maybe I leave it. Well, the spot where it came up isn’t any good, I’ll have to transplant it if I keep it. 
 

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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  • I have a few volunteers in my yard, Robusta though they come from my neighbors yard hardly see pure Robusta after the freeze so I keep them.  Tons of volunteers from my livingstonia trio don't know what i'm going to do with those, There is is at least a hundred with a dozen pushing palmate leaves!
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30 minutes ago, Little Tex said:
  • I have a few volunteers in my yard, Robusta though they come from my neighbors yard hardly see pure Robusta after the freeze so I keep them.  Tons of volunteers from my livingstonia trio don't know what i'm going to do with those, There is is at least a hundred with a dozen pushing palmate leaves!

I don't have any planted in my yard so this came from any number of neighbors for sure, my next door neighbor has what appears to be a pure-ish filifera, but most of the others in the neighborhood are pure-ish robusta with a few around that might be somewhere in between so no telling what I've got until it grows more.

**Side note, I'm not sure any of us know as much as we think we know about "pure" Washingtonia on either end of the spectrum.  I recall a thread somewhere on here where someone took some habitat photos of robusta in Mexico, in native habitat mind you, and there was quite a bit of natural variation in just that group.  I should look up that thread sometime when I feel like torturing myself as I'm sure "Washingtonia" will pull up about 10,000 threads.  Anyway if you see a thicker trunked robusta we always want to say it must be a hybrid, well, maybe/probably, but also not that cut and dry either.

Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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They're rare one Florida.  May be done takers there. 

 

5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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a pure filifera is worth some money to me, IF I lived in arizona or inland CA.  I dont like they way they look in humid areas enough to want one.  Same with a jubaea, its worth nothing to me BUT if I lived out there I'd scoop one up for sure.  Washy robusta, I like the way they outline skylines in socal, but I never wanted one in my yard either here or in arizona.  

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Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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