street planting of Roystonea regia in Orlando

[Eric in Orlando]

I drove past this row of young Roystonea regia today. Its just south of downtown Orlando.

[edric]

They should do alright, given enough food, and water, you may remember the photos of those 30 footers, in my brothers yard, over there, near the old New Smyrna Beach High School, they did have 2 or 3 mild winters, which helped them acclimate, nice trees Eric, keep us posted, Ed

[palmsOrl]

Nice Eric. Being planted on the southern end of the urban heat island, and with quite a few feet of trunk, I'll bet these palms will be there to old age. Malnutrition and lightning probably present a bigger risk to these palms' survival.

-Michael

[tikitiki]

Mine is doing great after last winter.

[Eric in Orlando]

How is that big street planting of mature royals at Metrowest doing ? Has anyone seen them lately ?

[Trópico]

How is that big street planting of mature royals at Metrowest doing ? Has anyone seen them lately ?

Do you have pictures? I don't know if I've seen them before. I drive by Metrowest almost every day omw to work and I can check. The ones at the apartment complex across from MW are alive and kicking. Further south there are two Ptychosperma elegans beside a TGI Fridays. The big one at Par ave. is looking very good too.

Edited December 10, 2010 by Trópico

[Eric in Orlando]

No, I've never seen the ones in Metrowest, someone on CFPACS site has posted photos before.

Yeah, the Par Ave. one is doing well. I drive by it everyday. That one was planted in 1995.

[NatureGirl]

[quote name='Eric in Orlando'

Eric,

I saw you on TV the other afternoon. I think it was Channel 2, an interview at Leu Gardens about frost protection.

NICE JOB!

Charlene

[Eric in Orlando]

Thanks ! Now I'm famous, LOL !!!

[Wai`anae Steve]

Remind me not to park under them when they get taller and start dropping those heavy fronds.

[Tala]

We installed those on Summerlin back in 2005 or maybe '06 would have to go look it up. All of them made it thru last winter except one, the palm to the left of the far drive. It was replaced this Spring. Below is old pic of ones we installed in MetroWest. They're in the median just past the elem. school w/ a jillion KO roses (not my idea). All of them (I believe 24 total) made it thru last Winter. I was really worried about them for awhile, most were defoliated or close to it but all have regrown full crowns this summer. I'll get a more recent pic but this one is from almost 2 yrs ago. In the past 5 yrs we installed dozens of large ones in back of Bay Hill, in front of shopping plaza on Alafaya/Lake Underhill and in Stoneybrook. Also some in a new devolopement on Lake Conway (pic too big to load here) and south of Michigan near downtown. Due to the quicker recovery time Roystonea have replaced Wodyetia for me and and Archontophoenix have replaced Adonidia. Until Moma Nature says otherwise...

[MattyB]

[quote name='Eric in Orlando'

Eric,

I saw you on TV the other afternoon. I think it was Channel 2, an interview at Leu Gardens about frost protection.

NICE JOB!

Charlene

Bust out some footage, I wanna see!

[edric]

We installed those on Summerlin back in 2005 or maybe '06 would have to go look it up. All of them made it thru last winter except one, the palm to the left of the far drive. It was replaced this Spring. Below is old pic of ones we installed in MetroWest. They're in the median just past the elem. school w/ a jillion KO roses (not my idea). All of them (I believe 24 total) made it thru last Winter. I was really worried about them for awhile, most were defoliated or close to it but all have regrown full crowns this summer. I'll get a more recent pic but this one is from almost 2 yrs ago. In the past 5 yrs we installed dozens of large ones in back of Bay Hill, in front of shopping plaza on Alafaya/Lake Underhill and in Stoneybrook. Also some in a new devolopement on Lake Conway (pic too big to load here) and south of Michigan near downtown. Due to the quicker recovery time Roystonea have replaced Wodyetia for me and and Archontophoenix have replaced Adonidia. Until Moma Nature says otherwise...

Very nice! Ed

[Dave-Vero]

I'm considering removing these two Satakentias come spring if they suffer more winter damage. They were slow to recover from last winter's cold, but may be better able to cope with damage as they get bigger. So I'm praying for a warm winter.

The Archontophoenix palms to the rear suffered no winter damage (though the taller one was badly messed up by nest-building squirrels).

I'm surprised at the use of all those roses as landscape plants. Then again, doesn't Disney have knockouts by the thousand at Epcot?

[Zeeth]

I noticed a very nice royal here in Bradenton today. It's in a car dealership and it's absolutely knock dead gorgeous. The trunk is so perfectly straight it's unbelievable and it's a good 60 feet tall. Normally here they'll have a massively swollen trunk towards the bottom, and 30 feet up it thins out really thin, so the palm as a whole looks very odd and messy, but this one was nice and tall but the trunk was just perfect. I'll try to snap a picture of it sometime

[edric]

Here is a photo I took today of the R. regis in my brothers house in New Smyrna Beach. FL, on the island of Venezia, down the street from the old high school, the tree on the right has been there for 4 or 5 years at least, the one on the left has been there less than 2 years I think, I won't bother taking a photo of the Wodyetia bifurcata, in front of my Mom's house, 3 blocks down the street from where this photo was taken, looking pretty rough! Ed

[gyuseppe]

[quote name='Eric in Orlando'

Eric,

I saw you on TV the other afternoon. I think it was Channel 2, an interview at Leu Gardens about frost protection.

NICE JOB!

Charlene

Bust out some footage, I wanna see!

:D

if the movie is on you tube you see all over the world,someone put on you tube ?

[Palmlover]

I love those Royal Palms! Planning to plant one in my backyard this spring.

[Matthew92]

I'm visiting the Orlando area right now- spotted a large mature royal almost completely browned.

[RedRabbit]

1 hour ago, Opal92 said:

I'm visiting the Orlando area right now- spotted a large mature royal almost completely browned.

Sadly that's how all of them here are too. Pretty bad damage from ~28f, huh? They'll bounce back at least. 

[ck_in_fla]

Royal palms right in the urban heat island look to be completely unaffected by this winter's weather.  It looks to me like the further you get from Downtown Orlando, the greater the impact.

In my Seminole County yard, the Royal palm shows damage but green fronds are apparent already pushing out the top.  So, it will definitely survive and will replace its crown entirely by mid summer.

I have a huge Caryota mitis (clustering Fishtail palm) that was also damaged but is also pushing out green growth.  I went down to 29F in my yard with 4-5 hours below freezing.

I also have a very large Ficus elastica (Rubber tree) that was heavily damaged but is sprouting in many spots.  It was about 30 feet tall and the top 12 feet was damaged and has been trimmed off.

[Matthew92]

9 hours ago, ck_in_fla said:

Royal palms right in the urban heat island look to be completely unaffected by this winter's weather.  It looks to me like the further you get from Downtown Orlando, the greater the impact.

In my Seminole County yard, the Royal palm shows damage but green fronds are apparent already pushing out the top.  So, it will definitely survive and will replace its crown entirely by mid summer.

I have a huge Caryota mitis (clustering Fishtail palm) that was also damaged but is also pushing out green growth.  I went down to 29F in my yard with 4-5 hours below freezing.

I also have a very large Ficus elastica (Rubber tree) that was heavily damaged but is sprouting in many spots.  It was about 30 feet tall and the top 12 feet was damaged and has been trimmed off.

Once I get home and get the cable to transfer the pictures from my camera, I'll upload a picture of an avenue of mature royals in Metro West Orlando that are 90%+ browned.

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

I think our Corpus Christi Royal Palms actually did better with 6 freezes, one down to 28.1F where I live, and about 30 to 40 hours total below freezing than your Central Florida Royals did.  I think it's like with our Coconut Palms here and in the Rio Grande Valley.  Once they have some size to them, they weather our winters pretty good, by becoming semi dormant in the winter and becoming hardened off to cold and chilly damp winters.  Maybe we should start sending some of our seeds to you guys over there ( I think ours gain a little bit more cold hardiness than yours over time) when our Royals produce seeds here, which they do when properly watered in the hot dry summers.

John

[Matthew92]

Browned royal palms along an avenue in Orlando Metro West. Now that I've uploaded the picture, they don't look as bad as I thought at first. Although if you look closely you'll see some farther down the line are worse than others.

 

[DavidLee]

I do not think that is freeze damage. The royals at Boca Raton look the same where the minimum was around 39 to 40. I think the damage was caused from Hurricane Irma and compounded by a few days of dry winter winds.

[ck_in_fla]

I think you may be correct.  My royal was really beat up by the hurricane winds too.

Since I am further from the urban heat island, my royal definitely was further damaged by the recent cold.  But, it will survive as I see green fronds pushing out the center already.

The Metrowest area is closer to Downtown Orlando and should have benefitted from all that concrete.  :-)

If you are correct, we should see quick recovery for these trees once the rainy season starts in a couple of months.

Thanks for sharing!

[Palmaceae]

That is cold damage, seen it many times before and with the temps they had in Orlando, that will damage royals . Here in Cape Coral we had 100 mph gust with Irma and the royals got beat up but they were and still are green. 

[RedRabbit]

41 minutes ago, Palmaceae said:

That is cold damage, seen it many times before and with the temps they had in Orlando, that will damage royals . Here in Cape Coral we had 100 mph gust with Irma and the royals got beat up but they were and still are green. 

Totally agree. 

[DoomsDave]

A little cold won't hurt happy R. regia, in my experience. My monsters in California suffered four days of mid-20s F in 2007 and, while they browned badly, came roaring back. Now they want to force me into marriage . . . .

[paquicuba]

On 3/13/2018, 8:04:59, Palmaceae said:

That is cold damage, seen it many times before and with the temps they had in Orlando, that will damage royals . Here in Cape Coral we had 100 mph gust with Irma and the royals got beat up but they were and still are green. 

Totally agree! Royals don't get burned by wind, they let their fronds go with the wind and that's how they can survive category 5 hurricanes. We also got hit by Irma here in West Broward county and all royals (we have a lot of them in the city of Weston) are looking as beautiful and green as always. 

[Eric in Orlando]

The Royals I see around here are 50-80% foliage burned. The night of the freeze it was windy so Royals in more protected places got leaf burn too. Some of the Roystonea regia grown from native Florida  seed here at Leu Gardens are growing at the edge of Lake Rowena. They grow in shallow water or wet mud all year and show little burn. But others planted elswhere but under high tree canopy have burn.