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Yeah definitely dosent look like a bad place only concern is temp up there but if it dosent get below 10 often then your probably good besides temperature that looks like a great place but yeah if you get about 100 seeds every year and some live plants themselves you could get a population there and from your channel that palm all the way up in PA outside no protection to seem with no leaf tip burn from the cold is shocking and a great sign for this goodluck! sabal minors can survive and create populations all over the places i talk about and there but for them to spread natually takes to long so us planting seeds can actually create a population thanks for sharing! good luck with this endever. if you want to see the delmarva stuff I talked about like bethany and janes island just search up Wild S. Minor on MD Eastern Shore? topic on google. Heres the images of Janes island state park needle palm.

As someone from caroline county I have a sabal minor from seed in my yard and never needed protection from the cold in a 7a climate zone because of global warming climate zone maps are outdated its more like 7b here now not 7a. hasnt even gotten any leaf tip burn so def not implausible in my opionon

That Dacty doesn't look good at all. It is definitely on borrowed time for you there. It looks fairly dry where you are too as well. I am surprised how bad that Dacty has fared though from just 22F. And how quickly the damage has showed. Are there any half decent sized Dacty's in San Antonio? Or even Houston?

Lol it's been a thorn on my side for some time now. Someone claimed it already! It'll be in a new home this weekend.

Yes it did. We only had freezing rain without snow but ice didn't melt all on the first day due to lack of sunshine.

Yes I agree I would say Hancock Maryland is easily a solid 7b (Except last year's and this year's Winters) This is the area I would like to plant them in It is very swampy and in person it looks like you're somewhere in North Carolina it's very cool. Next time I'm there I'll get some pictures, I would also like to plant some 1-2 gallon sabal minor Also. It would be north Potomac. Thanks for the recommendation if I do scatter seeds I'll make seed balls! Also thanks for checking out my channel!

Welp, the damn Brahea pic from above mention failed to post, my bad. So here it is! I think it did fine. Update: Finally a couple of days in the 40s has allowed for melting enuf to get out and run errand. Pretty remarkable as 2"snow on top of almost 2" sleet made for a doozy slurry so most of region shut down, lots of acxidents for those that dared! Power outages were minimal thanks to dumb luck (no freezing rain) I will keep coverings on palms a couple weeks and make sure b4 another surprise atrack, if any come but Momma Nature plays dirty tricks🙃

The hourly forecasts are starting to show up and the wind speeds that night near me won't be as bad as further east closer to the low. I'm hoping my practice and these past few years being cold at my spot have me prepared better than I was last year. That damage was pretty nasty and I don't want/can't afford a repeat a second year. Even with good care that's a death sentence for some plants but I'm starting to think I lost the wimps right away and have less to worry about. I'm not adding heat or anything active, just thick blankets and, if I can, a weed mat stapled up as a windbreak between the blanketed palms and the wind. I'll get pics if I get it to work. With the wind speed Saturday being up over 30 mph as the front moves in it may not happen. I have the stapler and clamps to hold it when done though so it's possible. I'm also going to move some other plants if the forecast gets worse here, it IS north Pasco after all, and it gets cold when the wind dies in these events.

good thing you are digging it out now josue. i got one from patrick which was supposed to be b x j and i just let it grow even with my suspicions and too lazy to dig out and now 15 years later, i have a huge full blown butia.

Your Dacty spear pulled already from 22F...!? That was like 3 days later. Did you have any snow with this freeze?

Needing to make some space, and this butia hybrid turned out to be mostly, if not entirely, butia. A beautiful palm, but I need the space for something else. I am game to help you dig, would be a simple task as long as you steer clear of the neighboring agaves (lots of spines!). Soil is very loose, sandy loam. You can cut right through it like cutting through butter. Pick up in Fresno.

Glad you agree cause climate zone maps are very outdated because of global warming most areas are a climate zone higher now if not 2 so I think its very possible your area can support them. Im hoping 10 years of this 1000 seed plan will get a population but I noticed Pokomoke definetly has a more dixie feel to it and I know a good spot to go from I saw another form on this website where there was a needle palm spotted in Janes island state park which is southern delmarva to. Potomac is a great place to start but I recommend finding a place at least 100 feet from the river because to much flooding will wipe out seeds. I also recomend making seedballs because another huge threat to seeds is rodents and seedballs help mask the sent of them. Are you thinking about the south Potomac or north but I definitely recommend a continued spot because polination between eachother is key once you got about 100 that reach breeding age there population will grow alot without you. But im not an expert but I have researched alot. I would def recomend Caledone state park. But if you ever find yourself in delmarva definetly head to pokomoke to plant some besides that pokomoke is a wonderful forest. Thanks for your response though ill def check out your channel!

Aftermath of Arctic outbreak in Dallas zone 8a. we only bottomed out at around 15°F and not the 6°F that was predicted thanks to cloud cover. Only 50 hours of consecutive hours below freezing than the 85 predicted. Now that we are above freezing, some frond damage is already apparent. The only palm that is showing leaf damage at this time is Sabal uresana green form. This is very preliminary and More foliar damage will appear with the arrival of warmer April temperatures. 🌴 These pix are meant to educate folk about how some cold hardy palms handle prolonged freezes. Some species here will never show any damage after these recent conditions like Sabal minor. Others will show some damage on oldest leaves and a few will mostly defoliate. All these palms should survive. The winter of 2025’s low temp was 12F so the palms in these images reflect one growing seasons growth. We love to share pix of our palms when they are healthy and vigorous but it is also very helpful to see how they look when stressed by climate. That way we can make better choices for our own new garden plantings. 🌴 washingtonia filifera Sabal Lisa Sabal Lisa Sabal Louisiana sabal minor chamaedora microspadix ceratozamia hildae Sabal Birmingham Sabal uresana blue form Sabal uresana green form Sabal brazoriensis nannorhops richtiana Sabal mexicana Chamaerhops Humilis cerifera

I can't tell you how long I lost track of it but it felt like a whole day of freezing temperatures. Definitely colder here than Houston plus the ice would not melt on most palms on Sunday . It was close to 22 in my neighborhood. Damage report : well it is too early to say that everything looks better than I thought. Filiferas look the same. Robustas is slowly turning brown I just don't know by how much yet. Butias look the same. Sabal minor look the same. Your Trachies look the same, Queen looks the same. Phoenix dactylifera spear pulled yesterday and looks brown. I pulled on all spears. Let's see how things go next week after the next cold front. Low 20s for us in the forecast but no precipitation.

Schippia concolor anyone!

Aren't you guys having your mildest winter on record pretty much right now in the PNW? Seen a number of references to Vancouver having the latest, or joint latest, air frost this winter. Quite a few people saying how mild the autumn/fall and winter has been so far. All the cold in recent weeks has clearly bypassed the west and been funnelled down east of the Rockies. Not seen any kind of major cold for coastal BC and the PNW. Every time I check the temps there this winter, it is as mild as it is here. If not milder. Although you won't get anywhere milder than the Isles of Scilly off Cornwall at 50N. It is now 8 years since the last nighttime frost in the islands. And 29 years now since the last January nighttime frost back in January 1997, when it went down to -0.2C / 31F. Just regarding the polar vortex in general, I am seeing a brutal reloading of cold air masses again and again for the northeast and eastern USA over the next 2-3 weeks. The first 2 weeks of February are going to be amongst the coldest on record in Boston, NYC, Washington etc and possibly the Carolinas. Scope for it penetrating into Florida again sometime around the 10th February too.

Don't know about Greece, but on the other side of Southern Europe, Spain, there are nurseries growing all these palm species in various sizes. They have become quite common in garden centers and among landscapers along the Mediterranean coast and on the islands.

Let's not and say we did 😁

Barry Which FLorikan mix did you use? I see 12-6-6 and 20-4-9. Meg and searches suggest 3-1-3 or 5-2-5. I don't want to buy generic palm fertilizer since this species is....special. thank you.

Up to a dozen seedlings to a pot . An old nursery trick people see a clump of palms and bingo instant sale! The problem is when they get planted in the ground up to dozen mother plants one by g ugly clump of canes. Planted in singles and a bit of time much better looking clump.

Thank you, sir! I'm crossing my fingers that this year won't be their demise.

Nice! Congratulations on keeping them alive thus far through these last couple of brutal winters!

A mild 72 w/ some thicker mid level clouds passing through at 1:49PM.. Will they thin out enough-, long enough, to reach the suggested forecast high today? We'll see.. Regardless, upward trend continues as we head through the final days of Jan. '26.. Weekend ahead? ..If it holds ofcourse.. Chef's Kiss First week of the final 28 days of winter here? ..Looking just as nice. We'll see how any passing cloud cover helps ..or hinders.. reaching ( or exceeding ) the currently suggested forecast highs.. 78 or 9 could end up a deg or 3 warmer if clouds ain't messing with insolation. We'll see how long it lasts.. Lots of Sunrise / Sunset opportunities over the coming days regardless.. Side note P.V. check: 🤔 Why is a Bruce Springsteen track suddenly ringing in my ear 🤔 ..I'm goin down, down, down.... Also, While only worth 1/4th of a penny < at best >, Accuweather's thoughts on Spring were dropped this morning.. Worth even less, but, Old Timer's Almanac also released their " Spring season " thoughts yesterday too..

This too shall pass. Real world cold tolerance information gathered here will be amazing, and we all love stories of recovery . Peace, stay warm, and think about Summer 2026 😎

yes, they do get warm for sure. Haven't had issues yet, and I try to keep them off the frost cloth. The PVC is just a drainpipe for the pool, that is hooked to the pool pup behind the palm tree