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OAK STREET BEACH, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

JASON M

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JASON M Experienced

JASON M

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I was browsing through Google Images at Palm Trees in Wisconsin and on a page, I saw a picture of 2 spindle palms. I clicked it, and it went to Tripadvisor. There they were, palms in front of Lake Michigan! Here are some pics from Panaromio

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23684858

Isn't that cool?

Milwaukee, WI to Ocala, FL

edric Grand Master

edric

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They superimpose them with software like Photoshop, Ed

MOSQUITO LAGOON

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rozpalm Mentor

rozpalm

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Completely real. They have been doing that for a while. They plant them before summer and dig them before the first frost. Most of what they plant are coconuts.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Chicago-Palm-Trees

Ron

Wellington, Florida

Zone 11 in my mind

Zone 10a 9a in reality

13miles West of the Atlantic in Palm Beach County

JASON M Experienced

JASON M

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Completely real. They have been doing that for a while. They plant them before summer and dig them before the first frost. Most of what they plant are coconuts.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Chicago-Palm-Trees

I am so going there over the summer, 1 and a half hour drive is NOT too much. I want to find out when the coconuts ripen... I need one for free to take home with me!!

Milwaukee, WI to Ocala, FL

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Completely real. They have been doing that for a while. They plant them before summer and dig them before the first frost. Most of what they plant are coconuts.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Chicago-Palm-Trees

I am so going there over the summer, 1 and a half hour drive is NOT too much. I want to find out when the coconuts ripen... I need one for free to take home with me!!

Go ahead and look, but I strongly doubt those will ever set any nuts.

You'll need to go to Florida or Hawaii for that . . . .

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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JASON M Experienced

JASON M

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I saw a picture, and I saw nuts. Yellow nuts.

Milwaukee, WI to Ocala, FL

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Yeah, but nothing's real, even what's really real . . . .

Sigh

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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That is a really REAL-Y great website, though!

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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Got Palms Mentor

Got Palms

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I have a bridge for sale, don't believe everything you see!

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

Eric in Orlando

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I saw them last Sept., coconuts, Washingtonia, etc. They store them in winter and replant in summer. Its totally real and totally bizzare to see coconuts on a Chicago beach. I will get photos this year.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

John in Andalucia Grand Master

John in Andalucia

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I recall BobbyinNY posting photos of palms in New York, so I knew this was genuine. Not only a great idea for brightening up the area, but when people think, "I didn't think it was possible.. (etc.)" it's got to make you feel that someone cares enough about the community to go the extra mile.

Justin Veteran

Justin

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I took these last summer - they are real:

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I was back in Chicago last week, and looked to see if they had been planted out for the summer - nope, not yet.

Resident of Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, San Diego, CA and Pahoa, HI.  Former garden in Vista, CA.  Garden Photos

Palmy Experienced

Palmy

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I like this one...

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Maybe Bobby in NY moved to Chicago?

Meteorologist and PhD student in Climate Science

redant Grand Master

redant

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Completely real. They have been doing that for a while. They plant them before summer and dig them before the first frost. Most of what they plant are coconuts.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Chicago-Palm-Trees

I am so going there over the summer, 1 and a half hour drive is NOT too much. I want to find out when the coconuts ripen... I need one for free to take home with me!!

Well I'd send you one but there are no ripe or unripe coconuts in FL after this winter, they all dropped.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

Xenon Grand Master

Xenon

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Thanks for the links :)

-Jonathan

Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

Xenon Grand Master

Xenon

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edit:multi post

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Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

Midessa Rookie

Midessa

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That's really cool. BTW aren't there some more palms in Chicago that are covered with a glass structure in the winter that is removed it the summer?

Odessa, Tx on the southern Llano Estacado! USDA Z7b, Arborday.org Z8

Wai`anae Steve Veteran

Wai`anae Steve

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I recall BobbyinNY posting photos of palms in New York, so I knew this was genuine. Not only a great idea for brightening up the area, but when people think, "I didn't think it was possible.. (etc.)" it's got to make you feel that someone cares enough about the community to go the extra mile.

Talking about Bobby in N.Y. What happened to him?

Wai`anae Steve-------www.waianaecrider.com
Living in Paradise, Leeward O`ahu, Hawai`i, USA
Temperature range yearly from say 95 to 62 degrees F
Only 3 hurricanes in the past 51 years and no damage. No floods where I am, No tornados, No earthquakes
No moles, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, etc. Just the neighbors "wild" chickens

John in Andalucia Grand Master

John in Andalucia

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I recall BobbyinNY posting photos of palms in New York, so I knew this was genuine. Not only a great idea for brightening up the area, but when people think, "I didn't think it was possible.. (etc.)" it's got to make you feel that someone cares enough about the community to go the extra mile.

Talking about Bobby in N.Y. What happened to him?

Yeah, I thought at one point he was setting up a New York palm chapter? Or perhaps moving to Florida? Quite a charismatic guy by all accounts.

paulgila Grand Master

paulgila

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justin yer pix are HUGE!

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

Ken Johnson Grand Master

Ken Johnson

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I'm betting the peeps on the beach are real. Did you's see their tans? Jeeez.

I hear more and more down here in Fl about projects up noth that are buying palms to use as "annuals".

I DIG PALMS

Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

305-345-8918

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