A few random palm pictures checking in on the cold

[happypalms]

Just floating around the garden checking out the cool weather damage. With the temperatures dropping to 6 degrees Celsius after some fairly warm weather and rainfall. Well the southerly winds have hit with snowfall on the tablelands with sheep graziers alert for frost  temps got down to minus -6 in those areas so that means we get the cold affects, thats does the cold damage to the the palms. No damage yet but just checking things out moving a few Palms here there tucking them away. Placing some up higher out of the cold floor space. And any areas that have a draught iam putting up hothouse plastic to keep out winds and all ventilation is closed up doors and exit areas to the potting area have had the sheet plastic put up.  So it’s time to put that extra degree or two difference with a bit of winter protection keeping things a bit warmer. And see how the little dypsis minuta and dypsis brevicaulis survive the winter along with the rest of them. 

[peachy]

Today was cold but not frigid (19c) unlike the 14c maximum yesterday and 5 nights in a row down to 5c. I am already sneezing, snotting and look like I am using red lip liner. So far the palms are okay, even the babies.  All my Mussaenda still have flowers and leaves too. Usually this time of year they are just bare sticks. The wind is the worst bit, straight off the snowfields brrrr. I saw a long line of brass monkeys waiting for the welder to open this morning.

Peachy

[happypalms]

On 6/10/2025 at 9:53 PM, peachy said:

Today was cold but not frigid (19c) unlike the 14c maximum yesterday and 5 nights in a row down to 5c. I am already sneezing, snotting and look like I am using red lip liner. So far the palms are okay, even the babies.  All my Mussaenda still have flowers and leaves too. Usually this time of year they are just bare sticks. The wind is the worst bit, straight off the snowfields brrrr. I saw a long line of brass monkeys waiting for the welder to open this morning.

Peachy

Don’t forget the Chaffee lips from the cold wind! When it snows at Armidale that cold air sinks down of the tablelands into the Clarence valleys and with a nice southern wind blowing. She’s a killer in the palm department. Did the monkeys ever get fixed or were they busy playing hand ball 🥎 . I dont know how they can grow palms in that cold little island they call Tasmania! Our daytime temperature today was 17 all day not cold in comparison to Manitoba, but cold.

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Winter is challenging for the palms out of the tropics. Last year was the first time I added some little palms to my collection in a long time so I was a bit nervous to try the new species….uncertainty. We had a mild winter so everything was fine . The most challenging aspect for us is wind , we get some very strong winds from the east that will strip some palms of leaflets . The larger palms , except the Ravenea , seem to be OK . My most sensitive palm , the Venezuelan Royal , has been a trooper . Good luck to all the “down unders” . Spring is on the way!! Harry

[peachy]

Since my last post on here, all the nights have been 3c or less, with 2 nights of 0c. All the palms are fine, the Mussaenda is dropping flowers and leaves at last and it was cold enough to kill a cane toad !  My darling 1 year olds brought a dead one into the house and were playing with it. UGH

Peachy

[Jonathan]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

. I dont know how they can grow palms in that cold little island they call Tasmania!

We install skylights in the roof of our igloos!

[happypalms]

11 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Winter is challenging for the palms out of the tropics. Last year was the first time I added some little palms to my collection in a long time so I was a bit nervous to try the new species….uncertainty. We had a mild winter so everything was fine . The most challenging aspect for us is wind , we get some very strong winds from the east that will strip some palms of leaflets . The larger palms , except the Ravenea , seem to be OK . My most sensitive palm , the Venezuelan Royal , has been a trooper . Good luck to all the “down unders” . Spring is on the way!! Harry

The shortest day of the year June 22 is what we look forward to from then on it’s up and away to sunny days and summer. I take my hat off to those that grow in the cold zones like 9a and 9 or lower that’s dedicated growers. We have dead zones in my area for all that lovely tropical stuff, at least I can get away with growing the good stuff to a certain degree (no pun intended). 
Richard 

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Jonathan said:

We install skylights in the roof of our igloos!

Do use a sky hook 🪝 to install that, I would prefer to use a bucket full of steam for warmth 🤣

[happypalms]

11 hours ago, peachy said:

Since my last post on here, all the nights have been 3c or less, with 2 nights of 0c. All the palms are fine, the Mussaenda is dropping flowers and leaves at last and it was cold enough to kill a cane toad !  My darling 1 year olds brought a dead one into the house and were playing with it. UGH

Peachy

Yes that chilly cold wind blah not for me. What we need to do is start a retirement fund through palm talk for members and build a nice village with lots of palms in a nice warm Location say around the Sunshine Coast area. Then we retire in a nice orderly manner and grow all the mapu palms we want. Those cane toads are making their way into the Clarence valley now. Obviously no bio security back then in those days yet we can’t even bring in a palm seed. I know lets introduce feral animals into Australia they said what a great idea they thought, and we will let the sand mining companies bring in lantanna and bitou bush even better they thought! Kharpa beetle is all about the grain industry. It goes to show who runs the country mining companies and big grain farmers so they can export and pay big taxes to the government. All backed by the government so they buy new cars and have pay rises, meanwhile the rest of the country goes broke! 
Richard