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How things are looking here. My large Grevillea (right) has the vegas lights. Large cat palms, some dwarf Heliconia, and everflowering bottlebrush are on the left - they needed a serious haircut to get them to fit this year. Kangaroo paws and small Grevillea behind the car also have lights. Mountain bottlebrush and narrow leaf bottlebrush aren't getting covered this year, just a little mulch. Everything else gets mulch (or nothing). Arenga sp. usually get buckets over them, but they have now outgrown that. Cham. mircospadix. These seed grown ones are much more vigorous than a large one I bought. They just get mulch poured on them. Cham. cataractum and Cham. radicalis seed. Figured I should actually save some. Only a fraction of what they set this year. The large Heliconia just get mulch piled up around the base. There are three new flowers coming on x 'Coral Surprise' that I'm sad to lose. I'm not wrapping any citrus this year either, only mulch.

Couple of nice varieties, the masoala has been a bit tricky to work out there specific needs, Iam learning they are a bit like Howea species, in my soil and climate. And I got the basselinas worked out they seem to like my soil and climate. You learn your palms after a while some are tricky others are easy.

But 90% of your yard needing protection is usually far more interesting. Atleast protection from the last few years, not an eventual average one. I drove into Pearland and spent about 4 hours protecting various palms and other species, some didn’t need it, but there’s a good chance all will survive another year . Sounds like a lot but less than most have spent staring at weather updates. last summer

ATL at 43° and dry all day

I've had one for a few years here in Lakeland: My Progress Thread: Palms and Others of Interest

Man that is coooooooold!!

It takes patience sometimes . I have learned some tough lessons on easier palms than those . For many years I just grew easy ones , then built a greenhouse to make it easy for some more difficult palms . When I moved to this place with no greenhouse , it got real . I am learning too. Some good looking seedlings , good work there . Keep pushing the boundaries and learning what the little ones want . Harry

Eh I mean we are leveling off due to the forecast being within 3 days it won’t change as much, the -5F is in 4 days+ so it’s fluctuating. Now -4F but yeah I’d say within 1-3 days least fluctuation 4-10 days don’t trust it yet.

The situation with the ice storm is very very bad. This amount of ice in TN.. ALREADY is a very bad sign. Models could have underperformed this will be going on for a bit longer. I think the “catastrophic level area” has moved away from AR and more into MS and TN.

I’ll look into that. NWS is saying 20 tomorrow night and 21 the following. We’ll see.

In those conditions it’s hard to keep your plants safe . Even with lights and covering it will be colder than most living things can handle. Good luck . Harry

Wish I got some daylight pics. This is before everything got mummified. Crazy I haven't protected at all this winter and now the forecast is 15F🤦‍♂️

Here’s my smallest. It gets more sun and doesn’t look ideal but again, I’ll take it. -dale

LOL toasty Brownsville actually clocking in a heat index with its 70F dew point

If you've lived in pennsylvania or do, you know this image is very true LOL

K elegans fan dance caught my eye so I shared my orange with it.

Veitchia vitiensis, one stunning smaller palm. A grove would be nice, but at least I have the one to oogle. Tim

Phoenicophorium borsigianum, a Seychelles palm. Tim

Pinanga maculata. Tim

Pinanga disticha, Licuala grandis, Licuala glabra var. glabra.

Mid summer follow up. All my seedlings, 3 sets, (Reynaldo) died this past winter. We had 2 nights of 4f. Rocks and leaves were not enough. Except...... 1 bunch survived. They did happen to have the largest rocks. Mixed in were some T or C seeds. I believe these are the actual 3 survivors. So 3 (t or c) survivors continue on. I have upped the "rockage". First pic is showing protection in winter. Reynaldo grove. RIP! Other seeding in place have taken place this year. Some Texas, some AZ ecotype and CA natural grove. 2 month old babies in situ and liners. Shout out to @Ltapia for some seed and 2 AZ ecotype filifera 2 year olds! They are taking off! Note the spear damage grow out in pic #2. More to come....

Yeah, they grow big pretty quick here! This one is my only Fenestralis, planted from a big 3g in April 2023. It's done well so far with a couple of upper 30s frosts, but hasn't really been tested...yet... It's more lime green in full sun here, where Alfredii is always deep green in sun or shade. I planted it too close to the walkway on the right, but that just means I'll have to aggressively prune it back for clearance.

The finger points to some young ones

Merry Christmas Eve!

@CascadiaPalms I actually sprinkle cinnamon on top of the soil to prevent pests and mold.

Here’s some habitat photos from just below the summit of Mt Gower