Palm Trees In The Snow  Pretty cool read! I am not sure if we are allowed to post links like that? If not, I apologize! Anyways, spring is right around the corner! Can't wait to unwrap my babies.

Edited January 26, 20206 yr by Chaz517

They're terrific palms.  I have about 8 of them that I've grown from seedling, now big (in addition to two other species of Trachycarpus).

All of mine except for one is containerized in a cold garage. The one in the ground has not been protected this year. Our minimum was 16 F. and it looks great.

But this weather has been very mild, I've lost others in the years of "polar vortices".

 

 

1 hour ago, oasis371 said:

They're terrific palms.  I have about 8 of them that I've grown from seedling, now big (in addition to two other species of Trachycarpus).

All of mine except for one is containerized in a cold garage. The one in the ground has not been protected this year. Our minimum was 16 F. and it looks great.

But this weather has been very mild, I've lost others in the years of "polar vortices".

 

 

Wow, that many? That is pretty awesome! It has been a very warm January especially.

Yikes!

On 1/27/2020 at 6:57 PM, Manalto said:

Yikes!

Haha!

Here's a T. princeps seedling of mine not minding the snow last winter either. It hasn't snowed significantly this winter yet.

Wow, was this in Texas?

19 hours ago, Flow said:

Here's a T. princeps seedling of mine not minding the snow last winter either. It hasn't snowed significantly this winter yet.

Awesome!!!

2 hours ago, Chaz517 said:

Wow, was this in Texas?

Brownsville, Texas and adjacent Matamoros, MX

23 hours ago, Xenon said:

Brownsville, Texas and adjacent Matamoros, MX

So beautiful. Assuming they all survived? I love seeing pics of palms in the snow.

12 minutes ago, Chaz517 said:

So beautiful. Assuming they all survived? I love seeing pics of palms in the snow.

If you love seeing palms in the snow here a couple of them, but not the newest ones:

 

5 hours ago, Chaz517 said:

So beautiful. Assuming they all survived? I love seeing pics of palms in the snow.

Some cosmetic damage mostly, nothing long term.  

Thankfully! Wow those pictures above are so awesome too. Thanks for sharing Pal Meir!

 

 

 

On 1/31/2020 at 12:16 PM, Xenon said:

Brownsville, Texas and adjacent Matamoros, MX

So beautiful. Assuming they all survived? I love seeing pics of palms in the snow.

 

 

Here are some videos. So surreal to see snow covered roofs flanked by plenty of big royal palms haha 

Royal palm lined street @3:54 , snow covered traveler's palms and ixora @3:18,  drone footage @5:01 

Royals and pygmy dates @0:05

 

Super cool to see! Thanks again for everything you have shared! Something about palms in snow that is super cool lol

Has anyone started unwrapping their palms yet? My windmill made it all winter with 0 protection!

46 minutes ago, Chaz517 said:

Has anyone started unwrapping their palms yet? My windmill made it all winter with 0 protection!

I unwrapped mine a week or so ago.  Mine didn't need wrapping this year but I was gone for a while and can't take the chance.  You should be ok now but always keep a lookout especially on small palms for spear rot well into the next month or 2.  The last 2 winters have been unusually warm for me here according to my chart as well.

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I only put lights on mine, but they were exposed all winter. Really only need protection from the rare polar vortex events here.

I keep thinking every year we are due for that one horrible, long winter, but maybe, and hopefully I will be wrong! I hope everyone out there is healthy and feeling ok!

Needle is the only green thing in my yard

We got an unexpected winter storm mid April.  Temps are still 33+ but I hope all that weight is okay.

T. Nova in pot

T. Fortunei in ground

Snow in April???? There has to be some kind of law against that!

On 1/30/2020 at 6:53 PM, Xenon said:

Is that a coconut in the bottom right? These pictures are insane! Must be really rare for snow down there.  

Edited April 18, 20206 yr by PalmTreeDude

1 hour ago, PalmTreeDude said:

Is that a coconut in the bottom right? These pictures are insane! Must be really rare for snow down there.  

Yep those are coconuts! Snowed 0 times in 20th century, but already twice in this century haha. But I'm not complaining, hasn't been blow 27-28F since 1989. 

Here's mine from this year

On 4/18/2020 at 1:16 PM, Allen said:

Here's mine from this year

WOW! That is sooo amazing! Thank you for sharing those. I love the lights. Glad we all survived the winter. Now we have something else that we need to survive.

Palm Tree Stuff! - Check it out!

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Chaz517