PalmTreeDude Posted August 14 Report Share Posted August 14 Hello! I haven’t posted for a while but I’ve definitely still been growing palms! I just wanted to give an update on some of my palms. These are near Richmond, Virginia. ^ My King Palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana). This gets a box in the winter and is the only palm I extensively protect. ^ My Needle Palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix), it does very well, the brown is just a sucker that got choked out, it has an absurd amount of suckers. ^ My Sabal minor ‘Dallas’ ecotypes. They are slow but do really well here. ^ My Mediterranean Fan Palm (Chamaerops humilis). I usually never do anything to protect it, but this past winter we had a very early cold snap (got down to 6.6°F according to my thermometer in December one night) so I just threw a bunch of pine needles over it, whether it did anything or not I don’t know but the trunks all survived. ^ A Sabal minor clump I bought at Myrtle Beach late last summer, it had some shock when I first planted it last August but it is growing well now. ^ Two small Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens) seedlings that I grew from seed. One survived last winter with some pine needles and one I planted early this Spring but It randomly spear pulled and is regenerating now. These are just kind of an experiment, I know long term they’re 8a palms. ^ I scattered some Sabal palmetto seeds in this planter years ago and some are still going even after the winters and getting stepped on over and over again, the spot is really shaded though so they’ll likely never get to any good size. ^ This is an Areca palm (Dypsis lutescens) that I had for a while in a pot, I don’t have room for it so I planted it as an annual. 8 PalmTreeDude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVEinMB Posted August 14 Report Share Posted August 14 9 minutes ago, PalmTreeDude said: !!! Hell yea man! I now immediately want to try one 😂 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Adair Posted August 14 Report Share Posted August 14 Amazing what you are growing so well in Virginia! 4 Cindy Adair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLM Posted August 15 Report Share Posted August 15 That king is impressive! Gives me extra hope for my foxtail 😁 3 Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 2 W. bifurcata, 4 W. robusta, 2 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 3 P. sylvestris, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 2 BxS, 2 L. chinensis, 1 C. nucifera, 1 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 1 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 1 C. cataractarum, 1 S. repens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmatierMeg Posted August 15 Report Share Posted August 15 Good work! That Archo is stunning in your yard. I bet it turns heads. 4 Meg Palms of Victory I shall wear Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise) Florida Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal Elevation: 15 feetI'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZPalms Posted August 16 Report Share Posted August 16 Would love to see your box set up for your king, It looks perfect! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmTreeDude Posted August 16 Author Report Share Posted August 16 On 8/14/2023 at 4:32 PM, DAVEinMB said: !!! Hell yea man! I now immediately want to try one 😂 Thanks! It is a fun experiment for sure! An extreme out of my zone push lol On 8/14/2023 at 5:17 PM, Cindy Adair said: Amazing what you are growing so well in Virginia! Thanks! On 8/14/2023 at 11:41 PM, JLM said: That king is impressive! Gives me extra hope for my foxtail 😁 Thank you! On 8/15/2023 at 8:01 AM, PalmatierMeg said: Good work! That Archo is stunning in your yard. I bet it turns heads. Thank you! Yeah a few neighbors came to see it and thought it was pretty neat! 11 hours ago, ZPalms said: Would love to see your box set up for your king, It looks perfect! It looks like I didn’t step back and take any pictures of the box fully for some reason, so sorry for the crappy pics, I’ll get better ones this winter. My father and I work on protecting it, I’m not home most of the winter because I’m away at college so we both kind of monitor it once the box is up, my father started liking palms now thanks to me lol! We have a small greenhouse heater inside that kicks on when the temp drops below 50°F automatically, during the day it is typically in the 70s or even 80s inside from the sun. This next winter is the last time we’ll be able to protect before it is definitely too big, I’ll try to figure out what to do with it after. 3 PalmTreeDude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmTreeDude Posted August 16 Author Report Share Posted August 16 Another king palm picture from today. 7 1 PalmTreeDude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZPalms Posted October 6 Report Share Posted October 6 I'm so excited to see your protection method, I think of your king palm often because of how cool this is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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