Pigeon Forge, TN

[Palms4Prez]

Back in August 2024, I went to the smoky mountains. To my surprise there were palm trees!

[SeanK]

I wonder if the palmettos get wrapped for the winter?

[bubba]

Annuals?

[SeanK]

12 hours ago, bubba said:

Annuals?

Wouldn't think so. They don't recover from hc in a season. If they wanted annuals, they could buy Rhapis and Adonidia.

[bubba]

If they are not annuals, that is an amazing feat! My Brother-In-Law in Atlanta has a neighbor, who plants Sabals and yanks them out and replaces them the next year. Do not assume that all annual planters know their palms!

[bubba]

Checking the climate of Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee. Wikipedia Geography has a rendering of the all time low of -18 F in January with below zero low temperatures recorded also in December, February, and March. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is located 33 miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee. Do Sabal palms grow as pictured in Knoxville?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Forge,_Tennessee

[PAPalmtrees]

7 hours ago, bubba said:

Checking the climate of Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee. Wikipedia Geography has a rendering of the all time low of -18 F in January with below zero low temperatures recorded also in December, February, and March. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is located 33 miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee. Do Sabal palms grow as pictured in Knoxville?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Forge,_Tennessee

I don't know of any palmettos of that size in Knoxville but Knoxville does have its share of cold hardy palms there is many trachy, sabal minors, Needle Palms and Sabal Louisiana's, Sabal brazoriensis And on Facebook I saw a post of someone who had a big Pindo Palm there.   I'll share some pictures of palms in  Knoxville

Sabal Louisiana at University of Tennessee Gardens

 

 

Big trachys At a private garden in Knoxville Tennessee 

 

Here's a picture of the famous Needle Palm in Knoxville TN that survived an all-time record low of -24 in 1985 (None of these pictures are my own)

 

Sabal miners from Gary Holler in North Carolina planted in 2006.(None of these pictures are my own)

big Sable Miner