Good News From Mobile!

[ntxpalms]

In Mobile to see the SS United States and I am glad to see the palms are recovering from January’s freeze.  Robustas coming out nicely, even P. Canariensis is recovering. Sabals are undamaged, many Sagos look great and even Bamboo palm looking fine. 

[KPoff]

29 minutes ago, ntxpalms said:

In Mobile to see the SS United States and I am glad to see the palms are recovering from January’s freeze.  Robustas coming out nicely, even P. Canariensis is recovering. Sabals are undamaged, many Sagos look great and even Bamboo palm looking fine. 

I wonder how cold it got there? That sago looks solid!

[ntxpalms]

I think mid to low teens. Here’s a couple more pics. 

[JLM]

14 hours ago, ntxpalms said:

In Mobile to see the SS United States and I am glad to see the palms are recovering from January’s freeze.  Robustas coming out nicely, even P. Canariensis is recovering. Sabals are undamaged, many Sagos look great and even Bamboo palm looking fine. 

This just reinforces the need for me to get my hands on a C. microspadix. Also the low temperatures in the Mobile area ranged from 6F to 15F. The lowest reading in Mobile County was 4F in Grand Bay, which is closer to the Gulf. The 8 inches of snow cover saved most of our palms along the Gulf Coast. Had it not been for that layer of insulation, it would’ve been a total wipeout. All the sylvestris and canariensis are coming back over here from 12F!
 

Edit: I even saw some Butia with minor leaf burn in localized spots here, which is just bizarre to me.

[Fusca]

26 minutes ago, JLM said:

This just reinforces the need for me to get my hands on a C. microspadix. 

I noticed that too.  I'm growing a few from seed right now but I had a juvenile in San Antonio that mostly defoliated with only one sucker surviving after 9°F in 2021.  The bigger the better! 

[ntxpalms]

I’ve saw several specimens of the Bamboo palm around downtown Mobile and most were in really good shape. The aspidistra shows no damage at all, and many sagos with minimal damage. Where I am from in Dallas, Tx, the aspidistra is totally browned at 10 degrees. The damage around Mobile looks more like what you get at 18-20 degrees, not 10 or below. Maybe the snow cover helped. The loquats look fine, too.  

[MarcusH]

1 hour ago, ntxpalms said:

I’ve saw several specimens of the Bamboo palm around downtown Mobile and most were in really good shape. The aspidistra shows no damage at all, and many sagos with minimal damage. Where I am from in Dallas, Tx, the aspidistra is totally browned at 10 degrees. The damage around Mobile looks more like what you get at 18-20 degrees, not 10 or below. Maybe the snow cover helped. The loquats look fine, too.  

Whatever it was to kept them alive was a blessing . Low single digits with that degree of damage ? I find this astonishing.  In my opinion Sabal palms are the best palms and most reliable ones from Texas to the east coast.  Even those washies look pretty impressive.  Glad the they're recovering fast.

[ntxpalms]

A few more pics from downtown Mobile.  P. sylvesteis putting out new growth, P. dactylifera at the old train depot putting leaves and seed heads, sabals and sagos with no damage, pindo looking good, too. 

[ntxpalms]

Recovering P. sylvestris downtown Mobile 

[ntxpalms]

Near Bel Air Mall, six miles west of downtown Mobile. Robustas, filibustas, and even canariensis recovering nicely.