Zone 10 Palms in Corpus Christi Micro Thread!

[Xerarch]

In the spirit of some other similarly themed threads I’m starting one for Corpus and really anywhere in South TX anyone wants to post. The market here isn’t nearly as big as the cities in Central Florida and we’ve had a rough go of it post ‘21. Nevertheless there is still some zone 10 stuff around that I’ll post. 
 

I’ll start with my own yard, many of these have appeared on other threads here on PT, but what the heck, it’s my thread. Cocos, Wodyetia, Roystonea, Chrysalidocarpus, Hyophorbe, Ravenea, Archontophoenix, Bismarckia etc, and I’ll throw in one of mules just for fun. Most of this stuff has been in the ground a couple years, a few things only 1 year. 

Raja Puri

This Royal has grown FAST, at the time of planting it was smaller than the other Royal in another photo. I give them both ample water but this one is sitting in a basin that is much easier to fill with several inches of pooled water  

[Xerarch]

Been watching this one for a couple years,  nice fat base on this Royal  

[Xerarch]

There are at least 7 royals on this property, here are 4 of them, with a GBOP as a bonus  

[Xerarch]

Nice planting of bottles 

[Xerarch]

Nice group of coconuts planted by @Mr. Coconut Palm At some condos on the island. 

[Xenon]

Your palms are looking great, look at all those huge new leaves !!! 👍🌴

[Xerarch]

Not a palm but this Ceiba was huge, got cut way back after ‘21 but still has a big trunk and now a lot of regrowth.

[Xerarch]

These Foxtails are pre-‘21, they must have been protected but I did not witness it. This is a pretty craptastic photo but stalking people’s palms while driving and trying not to attract too much attention is a delicate art. 

[Xerarch]

Royals/Foxtails, along the lines of stalking people’s palms, there are a lot more things I’ve seen around town that I don’t have photos of as I’m just not in a position to get photos all the time.  Also, not to mention all the photos I have that buried so deep in my camera roll I’ll never find them.  

[Xerarch]

This tall coconut was planted last year, it was beautiful. Tough freeze in January, it was wrapped in plastic but no heat source, so not great insulation and no heat, but it pulled through, some other coconuts and Adonidia. Fair amount of Adonidia around, don’t think I have many photos  

[Harry’s Palms]

I’ve never been there but it looks like an excellent palm environment. Thank you for sharing. Harry

[Xerarch]

This yard has several of these coconuts in pots, they are always there and I don’t get the drift that these pots really get moved, but I don’t know, I wouldn’t be surprised if the roots have grown through the bottom if these don’t move.

[Xerarch]

Some more Bizzies, there are better examples of tall-ish ones around but would have to get photos. 

[Xerarch]

Random foxtail 

[flplantguy]

I remember visiting there in 2004 in april and seeing a little ficus in the ground on the water and being surprised. This would have been a game changer seeing these then.  I decided on those trips to parks in texas at that time that plants would be my focus. I have never been able to attain that level of perfection in my work as in those parks, but at home i can!  I really hope this last bout of extreme temps is like the one before and we get 30 years of benign weather again.  Im collecting all the freeze dates and temps for the closest station to me so i have a full history (over 100 years) of expectations to work with and plan for.  I bet that area has some interesting data too. 

[kinzyjr]

@Xerarch Thank you for starting this thread and posting all of these. 

@flplantguy - Which stations do you want records for?  Do you want them for just the impact freezes?

[flplantguy]

@kinzyjr i have the lows for every day recorded for St. Leo and im grabbing all the freezes recorded for each winter and putting them on a list so i can see them all together. I think my location is about 2 or 3 degrees warmer than that, but its the closest to here both physically and in situation (not a cold hole like Brooksville, and it looks more reliable than Tarpon outside of missing data).  If there was an Aripeka station with records back to 1895 that would be ideal but i dont think it exists.  Elfers too, but i didnt find a stream of data for that like i did St. Leo.  Most of the freezes there are above 28 so my location, in theory, could be freeze free for multiple years at a time, much like Tampa or Orlando (im close to heritage pines too, and above there by the same).  IF thats all true, but the 2022 freeze was warmer here by that amount, so im crossing my fingers.

That kind of list for a city like Corpus Cristi could also be very useful, with adding your microclimate to get an idea of your location nearby for a cold event. Any city in the south where we zone push really.

[kinzyjr]

@flplantguy I can save you some time.  Give me ~30 min to an hour and I'll send you a PM with the data you are after.

[flplantguy]

That would be awesome!  I'm terrible with numbers and excel and stuff so its slow going, but your data is super helpful! It may get others to create them for their cities too, at least in marginal areas like ours.

[Xerarch]

Taking a closer look at my larger Royal, I do have some trunk peeking through. Soon as these boots come off it should reveal more, when I got my foxtail it had the slimmest little ring of trunk visible in the very bottom, but boy has it gone vertical since. I suppose that’s what I can expect from the Royal. 

[Xerarch]

Found myself in McAllen today, lots of zone 10 stuff there, Royals being fairly common. This is probably one of the best concentrations of them in one place, some Foxtails too.