Palms for Las Vegas

[velutina]

First off, i'd like to say how happy I was to find this message board! I recently moved into a house in Las Vegas from Salt Lake City (zone 6). I've been searching this forum for a while now and feel i have a pretty good idea of what palms will do well here planted in the ground. I am hoping I can get suggestions on what palms would do well as potted plants in this climate if I moved the palms into the garage when it freezes. I'm looking for plants that would otherwise freeze during the winter here, but do well in the scorching full sun during the summer.

Also, here are the palms I'm looking at to plant in the ground. If anybody knows a palm that might do well here, i'd love to know about it.

Washingtonia filifera

Washingtonia robusta (or filibusta)

Phoenix dactylifera

Phoenix canariensis

Brahea armata

Trachycarpus fortunei

Chamaerops humulis

Butia capita

Syagrus romanzoffiana (marginal. the ones i've seen here look terrible)

Phoenix roebelenii (marginal)

Brahea clara

Bismarckia nobilis (i've seen these for sale, but never in landscapes. so i'm guessing no)

Nannorrhops ritchiana

Sabal uresana

And lastly, what palms do you all grow as houseplants? I'm going to order from www.rarepalmseeds.com and would love to get some easy-to-grow palms that would do well as a house plant. Thanks for any input!

[Xerarch]

I think your list looks pretty good, and your right, Syagrus, and P. roebelenii are marginal in Vegas. Bismarkia does well here in Phoenix but will need some protection there. Triangle palm (Dypsis) and Royal palm (Roystonea) take the heat fine here from what I've seen but are tender to frost. You may be able to try those in containers that you can move during frosts. I'm sure there are a lot of others as well.

[aztropic]

I enjoy blue palms and desert conditions really seem to enhance that blue color.Here's one that will definately survive both the extreme heat and cold.Chamaerops humilis var. cerifera.

Others that will definately take your heat and may possibly survive your cold are Pseudophoenix sargentii and Ravenea xerophila as seen in the pic below.

aztropic

Mesa,Arizona

[osideterry]

It looks like you are embracing the palms you can grow, for the most part. Check out sonoranfans thread My Desert Oasis, as he's really done his homework in a similar climate.

If I lived in the desert I'd start with some big Phoenix reclinatas. I'd find ones with 3-5 trunks max, and keep them trimmed down to that many trunks. They require work, but if grown right have a very tropical look.

[osideterry]

Here's some photos I found on a google search of what reclinatas can look like if isolated to a few trunks. I'd stay away from dactylifera... they can turn into a mess and are visually associated with commercial planting.

[ghar41]

Trithrinax campestris!