Landscape change

[Bkue]

I would imagine myself and many others are in for a change. We have all seen the threads in cfla over the years of us zone pushers. Here is our reckoning. The only hope I see is we are supposed to have decent wind. There has been a bit of frost this year which always has an impact but doesn’t kill. 
 

I am putting a couple heaters in the vicinity of my 3 adonidias. They are too big to cover. The hundreds of areca’s are on their own. The royals should live. 2 are under canopy and close to the house. 1 is in the open and already showing signs from the frost. 
 

for those that have gone this low, with trees too high to cover, are there any suggestions? 
 

Currently forecast 25ish. I do have a lot of canopy over most, and do sit high on a “hill” comparatively speaking.

 

[kinzyjr]

A few considerations for the palms you have that might yet be saved:

• Are any small enough to dig up and resistant enough to root disturbance to put in a pot until the end of March?
• Are any that are root sensitive small enough to put a cage of dead leaves around?
• Is there any way to lower the wind speed?  Particularly from the north and from the sides.
• For the large ones, is it possible to protect the trunk and the growing point so they can come back, even if they defoliate?
• Do you have any C9 Christmas lights to put out?  Can you get any on short notice?
• Do you have or can you get any barrels to put in the ground and fill with hot water? (The plastic ones usually work better than metal for this).  You can cut slots in the top that will let the heat slowly rise out.
• Do you have a lot of jugs you can fill with hot water and place close to, but not touching, the trunks?

My wish is that I had better news, but we are all in for some cold with howling winds.  The one bit of hope I can offer is that there was a small coconut that took the full brunt of January 2018 here and came back.

After the January 2018 Advective Freeze:

 

Palm on the right - June 2019

 

Same Palm - October 2019

 

November 2022:

 

November 2023:

It's currently flowering and has immature fruit, but this might be the last hurrah.  Hopefully it makes it.  All of this to say that I hope everyone gets a few good surprises instead of only bad experiences.

[Harry’s Palms]

We all fear that dreaded extreme weather event . I hope your losses or damage is not significant. When I was at my old house , we had a historic low in Southern California . It was the early 90’s . The farmers lost almost their entire crop of Avacados and lemons . We had frost in our back yard but I didn’t have anything too sensitive at that  time , I had only just started collecting . Harry