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I suspected this would be the case... I'm in the Orlando area and we haven't seen temperatures like this in at least 40 years. I wonder if any of the coconut palms further South on A-1-A directly on the ocean survived. I was over there back in August and we drove down to JB's Fish Camp. And on the drive down there I saw lots of coconut palms, many looked like they had been there for a number of years. So, perhaps some of them directly on the ocean survived.

Images of Dallas zone 8a, unprotected palms in 2021 with a winter low of 3F and in 2026 when the low was 15°F sabal palmetto Lisa sabal Louisiana Washingtonia filifera

Do you think the having the weather station 10 feet up raises or lowers the temp readings during cold events? Mine is set up the same way except it’s about 20 feet above ground. (I have a raised house with the floor being 16 feet above ground) I feel like it gives colder readings because it doesn’t get any ground heat up there but then again cold air sinks.

More cold damage is starting to show on a lot of my palms. I don’t think anything is going to die except maybe my last standing Adonidia that I think had some sort of fungus before the winter. My C. macrocarpa is pretty beat up from frost but I don’t think it will die this winter. The problem is that it is super slow for me and between hurricane damage and freeze damage it may not recover enough before next winter sets in. Fast palms for the win in this area… My smaller, more exposed coconut took a lot of frost damage too. We will see if it makes it. Most of my palms look more or less ok. I’ll post pictures maybe in another week to really let the cold damage expose itself. I’ve been through this plenty of times to think a palm is ok after the first few days to only see it turn into a crispy critter or otherwise decline and die.

That's really cool! I love the greenhouse did you build it yourself? Me and my dad want to build one.

Further up A1A, Paradise Beach park https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KFLINDIA326/graph/2026-02-2/2026-02-2/daily 1/31 34.3 2/1 26.2 2/2 32.7 2/3 35.4 Sea Hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus) Coconuts are cooked, even on the beach Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera), I never thought I'd see them like that on our beaches. Spiny Fiddlewood (Citharexylum spinosum) last picture are sea grapes facing the beach

Has anyone done business with this website seller ? Is this a legitimate vendor ? Sometimes when extremely rare plants are offered it's "buyer beware' ! Thanks

E. Nubimontanus seeds. Extremely high viability. I’ve cut 10 and all 10 were viable. 5usd per seed. Located in the US.

I bought them at Home Depot a while back. They had Alexandrae. I couldn’t believe it. I never saw them there again. It was the Home Depot off Narcoosie RD and Leevista. That was 15 years ago. The Cunninghameana were here when I bought the house and they naturalized all over the yard.

High school huh? I started my last year of high school in 1976, 50 years ago. At the risk of going way off topic, back in the first decade of the 2000's I ran my hobby nursery for a few years before the district decided it wanted permits, certificates and property rezoning. Here's a couple of pics from back then.

Very similar to scenes around PSL. If you had Queens, Sabals, Washies, Roebeliniis, Thatch, Livistona, Sylvesters, Date Palms, Reticulata along with a Ligustrum Hedge you'd be golden round these parts. Just about everything else...not so much. ...and the mangoes, of which some had flowered early this year, got hit really hard. It would seem that most will pull through, but this was pretty unprecedented here, so only time will tell. They look BAD.

Thanks for the recommendation, I well watch this later!

Here's empirical evidence that shows planting on the south facing side of a large building, blocking the cold winds of an advective freeze event, is a sound strategy. These palms were much less damaged then their nearby counterparts. In the second photo with the Flamboyant (Delonix regia), at the bottom right, is a volunteer royal with no damage at all, and that wall protected it from those freezing winds.

Yes, I am very fortunate to be growing this palm! I’m curious to see how it does in full sun since I’ve only seen them in deep shade at Floribunda. But I was thinking that since all of the other Hyophorbe do well in sun, this one should too. Here’s another picture. Some nice dark coloring on the petioles and leaf bases. But like all young plants here, the rose beetles start chewing holes in the leaflets.

Palms in general . Will any of these make it?

As I get more canopy I begin introducing companion plants. The garden is still very young so the focus for now is on palms.

WHAT A TROOPER! Thanks for your service keeping everyone updated on this special palm.

Ficus lyrata

Heptapleurum actinophyllum

This is what people's landscaping looks like in Brevard as of today.

Typical sad royals you'll see a lot of throughout downtown. Not well taken care of and embarrassing. This freeze could be the final nail in the coffin for these sickly royals

The mango trees are defoliated. I don't know how bad these are set back. Some of these trees in the old downtown part are pretty old, like the size of laurel oaks. In residential areas where the trees might be around 30 years old, are in the same damaged condition.

There are several other 2010 survivors in downtown. One of them is certainly dead, the bud is leaning like it is falling out of the crown, the others look like the coconuts pictured above. My coconut palm looks like these as well.

Next stop, downtown Melbourne. Closest weather station reported the following: 1/31 33.3 2/1 26.0 2/2 28.3 2/3 32.6 2010 coconut survivors. I'm not sure if they will pull through this time.