Chicago Yuccas

[ChicagoPalma]

I wouldn’t call them palms, but they survive negative temperatures green and not defoliated. I got some seeds from them, not many but I can sell them if anybody is interested.

 

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the yuccas are around my neighborhood naturally unprotected.

Edited February 19, 2023 by ChicagoPalma

[ChicagoPalma]

Spring is early with a couple flower bulbs coming out

[SeanK]

Usually the non-trunking ones are pretty cold hardy. You could try recurvifolia and see how it does. Hespareloe parviflora takes alot of cold, too.

[Little Tex]

That’s pretty impressive for Chicago, although, there is a separate section of the forum for this stuff, the “tropical looking plants other than palms”

[ChicagoPalma]

Thanks for the info! 

2 hours ago, Little Tex said:

That’s pretty impressive for Chicago, although, there is a separate section of the forum for this stuff, the “tropical looking plants other than palms”

 

[PaPalmTrees]

The daffodils are coming up in zone 6

[Brandon James]

I love them here in Maine too. Deer don’t like them either

[ChicagoPalma]

Nice

[ChicagoPalma]

The ones you have look a bit worse.

[Chester B]

Yucca filamentosa are hardy into upper zone 4.  Very tough plants and a commonly used one in the NE.

[Brandon James]

On 2/20/2023 at 8:20 PM, ChicagoPalma said:

The ones you have look a bit worse.

They have taken some wind damage from the arctic front earlier this month. We hit -14f with windchills into the -40s. The windmill palm that I cover each winter even took some frond damage 

[ChicagoPalma]

Not bad, mine got cosmetically fried by the c9 lights, but its not yellow and the damage is not bad. March is near and we got a whole day of rain so we should be in the clear for next week. The second week of march I might uncover it.

[ChicagoPalma]

Wow, I got people saying I can't grow palms in Chicago, but here it is, a windmill palm in maine.