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Royal palms in California!

Sr1949

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Zeeth Grand Master

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Welcome to the board Sean! It's possible in the right microclimate to grow a royal evsen up here in the SF Bay Area. I have three in my garden. There are lots of big ones in Southern CA.

Jim in Los Altos:

Yes Microclimate makes all the difference. Check out these royals here in Jacksonville , Fl. where we generally can't grow royals (North Florida) due to some freezing temps. They've been in the ground approximately 15 years at a house near the water on the south side of town.

Wow! This certainly gives credence to Bartram finding them growing wild around Lake Dexter.

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

DoomsDave Grand Master

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There's a rockin' bunch of Royals near South Coast Plaza, in Costa Mesa

DoomsDave;

I checked out the Royals at the plaza on Google Street View. Wow!! Looks like a Miami, Fl. street scene. Palms very healthy looking. Maybe these will encourage more plantings in So. Cal. area.

You have, of course, a standing invitation to visit my palm garden including the royals whenever you're out here.

Keith did it, and he's none the worse for the excitement . . .

DoomsDave:

That invitation is tempting. Maybe my big chance will come one day soon, as I have yet to visit California at all. Tell me, do you know of any other Roystonea species (oleracea, venezuelana) growing in So. Cal.; if so, where?

I have R. oleracea, princeps, and borenquenia

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Welcome to the board Sean! It's possible in the right microclimate to grow a royal evsen up here in the SF Bay Area. I have three in my garden. There are lots of big ones in Southern CA.

Jim in Los Altos:

Yes Microclimate makes all the difference. Check out these royals here in Jacksonville , Fl. where we generally can't grow royals (North Florida) due to some freezing temps. They've been in the ground approximately 15 years at a house near the water on the south side of town.

Wow! This certainly gives credence to Bartram finding them growing wild around Lake Dexter.

I don't doubt he saw royal palms in that area. Water really makes a good microclimate, giving palms a chance to flourish where they are not expected to. A few years ago a group of folks from one of the palm societies supposedly planted some royals in the Lake Dexter area. Have you or anyone else heard of this effort and how the palms fared?

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Pedro 65 Grand Master

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Welcome to the board Sean! It's possible in the right microclimate to grow a royal evsen up here in the SF Bay Area. I have three in my garden. There are lots of big ones in Southern CA.

Jim in Los Altos:

Yes Microclimate makes all the difference. Check out these royals here in Jacksonville , Fl. where we generally can't grow royals (North Florida) due to some freezing temps. They've been in the ground approximately 15 years at a house near the water on the south side of town.

No doubt Johnny and June bought some "warmth" to parts of Jacksonville all those years ago and it "stayed" ? :) Pete

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Here's the biggest Royal I've seen in So-cal, or maybe neck and neck with the Hoopers'.

Thar 'tis on the left, towering above all. I'd say an easy 70 feet.

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Yunder Wækraus

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Magnificent

displaced_floridian Community Regular

displaced_floridian

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Yes, they are great when lining streets, like here in Ft. Myers on McGregor Blvd

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Yes, they are great when lining streets, like here in Ft. Myers on McGregor Blvd

whabbly babbly

urk

URK

etc.

Mommy!

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Yes, they are great when lining streets, like here in Ft. Myers on McGregor Blvd

I wouldn't want to be driving underneath when a leaf gets jettisoned!

Kostas Grand Master

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The streets are so wide in Florida that there is pretty much no chance for that :)

If they seem small, its just that the palms and cars are huge!

''To try,is to risk failure.......To not try,is to guarantee it''

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howfam Rising Star

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On 2/16/2015, 12:04:48, DoomsDave said:

Here's the big one on the right in the first picture in the previous post.

 

It was an 18" tall baby in October of 2004. about 36" (1 M) across the base.

 

Yessir, yes ma'm.

 

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DoomsDave:

What a nice royal . I'm in N. Florida where we're challenged when it comes to growing the royals and other tropical palms. Did you do much protecting of this palm over the years? What's the lowest temps it's seen./ howfam

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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18 hours ago, howfam said:

DoomsDave:

What a nice royal . I'm in N. Florida where we're challenged when it comes to growing the royals and other tropical palms. Did you do much protecting of this palm over the years? What's the lowest temps it's seen./ howfam

Butch saw four successive nights of 24.5 F back in January of 2007. It was about eight feet tall then, more or less. It saw one day of 25 F in January of 2013.

Once past baby stages, it was much too big to protect against the cold.

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Matthew92 Veteran

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So this must mean Roystonea has incredible drought tolerance to do that well in Southern California?

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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2 hours ago, Opal92 said:

So this must mean Roystonea has incredible drought tolerance to do that well in Southern California?

It means I water it

A LOT

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On 2/15/2015, 10:06:11, Jim in Los Altos said:

Dave's royals can hardly be beat!

yes

 

and they're starting to beat me back :badday:

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Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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Since i couldn't find where i'd discussed it last, Looks like Google did an update of the street the Lonesome Royal back home in my old neighborhood in San Jose.  House STILL appears un-occupied ( at least when the photo was taken )..

Figured i'd post for everyone in the Bay Area ( and elsewhere ) wondering how it has fared. Image is from March of last year. Not the best looking of the CA specimens, not too shabby either..

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2544885,-121.9291812,3a,30y,359.18h,95.97t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-rvbmE0cL49QH6ibiWThkw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-rvbmE0cL49QH6ibiWThkw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D265.8775%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

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96720 Veteran

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My royal in Phoenix they love it here not so much if it’s cold, but once they are big they don’t have much problem even with cold 

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Mahalo2 Contributor

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On 8/6/2015 at 9:03 PM, DoomsDave said:

Here's the biggest Royal I've seen in So-cal, or maybe neck and neck with the Hoopers'.

 

Thar 'tis on the left, towering above all. I'd say an easy 70 feet.

What a beauty! 

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