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If anyone's looking for a good Youtube video to watch here's one. I really enjoyed this one! there's great scenery of palms in the video

Hey I was supposed to do this 3 months ago. The 2 foot Boost Lighting $25 deals on eBay KILL the 4 footers. The Wal Mart shop lights are actually wonderful. After doubling up my Barrina tubes I must have done something right because the bananas are gonna hit the ceiling, I just kinda hung them in a V pattern - I zip tied them in pairs and hung them from S hooks and chains. Mentioning this again, especially for the price point, the Wal Mart shop lights are wonderful - if you're not looking to fruit or flower, grab them. I also just snagged these. First and foremost, I want to say I do not like The Millennial Gardener. Something about him just... Just stop pretending you're poor and on a budget. You're not bootstrapping anything. Anyway, he was right about these lights. https://a.co/d/0gVKcpKn I wanted something to fill out my new bench, it's 87.5"w (I'm using repurposed shelving so I get weird sizes) and I already hung a Wal Mart shop light dead center so a couple of 2 footers on either side of that should do great. Then I busted out the Photone app and holy poop on a stick From 6" I got like 500ppfd. The 4 pack is $30 if you have Prime, I didn't need the timer since I bought smart outlets for all my lights. 500 ppfd for under $8 is insane. That's the same number I get from my doubled up Barrina with the shower curtain reflector (which believe it or not made a HUGE difference) - and the 6 pack of those is typically $130. The power cords are a little short but I'll just Mississippi something together. I'm gonna have some very happy plants over here.

In League City TX, just south of Houston. We had one night at 25 and the next bottomed out at at 23.5. It did get above freezing in between. Mule unprotected Majesty that I defoliated and wrapped with blankets and heat. Too easy to protect to risk losing it. L. Chinensis (unprotected) and Acoelorrhaphe Wrightii (blanket and Xmas lights) C. Alba just got a blanket (had lights on it but they didn't work!) and the Arenga Englerii had no protection. Another Chinensis behind that. Decora unprotected Bizzy unprotected Chamadorea Hooperiana (I think?) just had a pot flipped over it What I thought was Seifrizii but got absolutely toasted with canopy Cham Costaricana that just got a blanket. I may have overestimated it's cold tolerance Licuala Spinosa strap leaf just got a pot flipped over it A small Cham Radicalis and some transplant Rhapis did fine Chuniopheonix Nana had a pot flipped over it with a string of Xmas lights laying next to it Licuala Fordiana? Lanonia? I have to keep better records. Had a pot with some Xmas lights next to it. Cham Elegans unprotected A Cham Tepejilote that I decided would be easier to just dig up and replant after the freeze. Doesn't seem to have missed a beat. And last but not least, a potted Ptychosperma Elegans that I somehow missed when I loaded up the greenhouse. May he rest in peace.

Kind of a nifty diminutive palm, although I don’t think it’s particularly cold hardy. Nice deep red crown shaft and colorful seeds. The mother plant is posing with the shovel, while the offspring are growing nearby. Tim

Great video. Nice scenery!

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

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

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.

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.

Yeah totally. I'm still in high school and I would love to have a career owning a nursery and a landscaping company. I would love to specialize in palms and exotics but obviously that's not what everyone wants in their garden.

One would need a place to store said dug up Ensete. I have enough potted things taking up valuable space. Personally, I don't find it to be any bother at all.

Call me crazy but I’m going to plant some Hesperaloe and Yuccas. Oh so tender.🤣

I guess when I go out there again I'll test the PPFD of the new 4 foot Boost/Dymond/DynaGro lights (all brands are the same thing) but I gotta say just looking at the mounting attachment I'm happy. There's a little flip out clip for your S hooks. That alone in and of itself makes me very happy. And the price was right. I'll do another video when I mount them too. Maybe I can bribe my brother to hold the camera so y'all can watch me sweat and listen to me swear while every measurement I take is off by like just enough to piss me off and bother me. I think at the price point, if you're overwintering enough stuff these might actually be a viable alternative to shop lights unless you're already in the market for shop lights.

I thought it survived if I mber correctly. Mine is in absolute beast mode right now. Mine did well in a pot but grew out of pot sizes pretty quick. T J