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Leu Gardens FL and Winter Park FL

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August 23Aug 23

Hi! I visited Orlando this weekend and oh my lord! I found lots of palms it was cool the place I stayed at had lots of palms and natives like Saw palmetto and Sabal Palmetto. There was also some pretty Naturalized Queens that weren’t planted here’s a few of the place I took today! Ima post more including Leu Gardens which is crazy! It has Palms that shouldn’t be in that 10a/9b place in Winter Park. I think the heavy tree cover helps some of those things survive. They also might take other measures.

-Cfa- Humid Subtropical Hot Summers Mild Winters- in Lexington and Kissimmee __ -Cfb- Subtropical Highland Warm Summers Mild Winters- in SW VA

-Lexington KY Palms: In ground (4)-Musa Basjoo👍 (2)-Majesty Palms👍 (1)-Pindo palm☠️ (20+)-Sabal minor mccurtain👍 The pindo and majesty will be protected when needed. Germinating Sabal Minor ‘Razorback’ or Arkansas

-Kissimmee FL whew (3)-Majesty Palms👍 (3)-Bottle Palms☠️ (4)-Foxtail Palms☠️ (1)-Sabal Palmetto👍 (1)-Clump of Bird of Paradise👍

-Recent Lows __3.8F 25’-26’__-6F 24’-25’__16.8F 23’-24’__2F 22’-23’__. ☠️=Dead 👍=Alive

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Aug 23Aug 23 Palmerr changed the title to Leu Gardens FL and Winter Park FL

Tuesday at 09:33 AM5 days

Nothing beats a nice stroll in a garden and even better if it’s got palms. Some good pictures thanks.

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Thursday at 11:46 AM3 days

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If you look really close at the palms with the sign you can see they actually have some sabal minor and palmetto rare types! I have never seen a variegated Palmetto In person I thought that was so cool! They also had sabal Brazoria and for example things like blountstown dwarf minor. Again what I loved about Leu gardens is how they take advantage of the live oaks to use as a microclimate to grow palms I thought couldn’t grow in this zone! When you get out of the city areas where they only plant date palms palmettos and queens rarely in the town, seeing how many palms can actually grow in Orlando is crazy. (I thought only sugar palms and other things besides the regular would do well there. Also chamaedora or whatever. Could also tell some things did get damaged in winter I know this winter in Orlando was hard. But everything seemed to pull through!