Please look at the attached image. These Coconut palms have been growing at the corner of South Orange Ave. and Kaley Street in Orlando for a number of years. As I am sure everyone know, Orlando had not had a freeze of any kind in a number of years. This past February, that all came to an end as much of the area fell into the upper 20's briefly. The outlying areas fell into the lower 20's. My Winter Springs location, Northeast of Orlando hit 24F.

These Coconut palms completely defoliated and the coconuts hanging on the larger trees fell to the ground. Well as you can see from the image, these trees survived the event and are well on their way to re-growing their crowns. So, not only will they survive, it looks like they will continue to thrive.

There are also a couple of Coconut palms planted on the other side of Colonial Drive from Orlando Fashion Square Mall. I didn't get a picture but, these trees are also pushing out new growth and obviously survived the cold event.

So, it's good news for Coconut palms in Orlando, Florida...

Edited Monday at 02:10 PM2 days by ck_in_fla
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Thats great, I hadn't been by those yet to look.

I'm amazed at how many coconuts are growing back after lows of around 24-25. I had 23F (below 32F for 10 hours) at my house in Altamonte and my Green Malayan (with about 3-4ft trunk) was totally defoliated, it was not protected or wrapped. It had no spear pull but once it warmed it started putting out new growth. Its on its 5th leaf now. So far every one has been shrunk/deformed but each new leaf is bigger and better. The new spear looks even bigger now. Theres another a few blocks down from me and it gets no care/irrigation. Totally defoliated but its also growing back. Theres a house a few blocks from Leu Gardens with 2 trunked specimens and they also have good growth coming out.

The coconut palms at the old Smashburger across from Orlando Fashion Square on Colonial Drive also look really good...

It's good to see and hear about so many coming back.

My Maypan and Atlantic Tall made it, but a few of the smaller coconut palms I had fizzled out. A few of my neighbors had coconut palms that lived and are recovering, but others decided to remove them. There are a few that were bearing fruit near Lake Parker that are still fighting the good fight. I've still got a Panama Tall and one of @redant 's Atlantic Tall seedlings in pots. They'll likely end up in the ground before too long.

The removal of the I-Drive coconut near Charley's was heartbreaking. It was fun to watch it fully mature and survive countless cold fronts with minor or no damage.

My family is getting ready to have our annual family week at the beach next month. We normally drive down A-1-A and have dinner at JB's Fish Camp. Last year there were lots of coconut palms planted beachside along the entire drive from our New Smyrna Beach condo. It will be interesting to see how many of those survived. If some of the Orlando coconut palms survived, I would bet that there are survivors along the ocean as we drive South along A-1-A. I will check when I am over there.