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Glad to hear they grew for you! How about an update?

The NWS is forecasting a low of 26F and 29F over the weekend. I'm thinking about how I'm going to protect my coconut palm. I don't think Christmas lights are going to be enough, probably need a hotter lamp and a lot of blankets.

Schippia concolor anyone!

A view from my deck ! 15 years old and my largest of 4 Lepidorachis.

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.

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 😁

Your welcome the species name I do believe is arenbergia, I have a few different ones that are a bit tricky to remember. Radicalis pop up all over my garden most I leave and the same with plumosa, adscedans, elegans in fact all chamaedorea species pop up, some wanted and a few unwanted. I have sefritzii throughout the garden but never any seeds on them. I still say you need some adscedans in that garden, I got a stack more seeds maturing in the garden, I might have to get those craftwork beads abroad. Your garden is always well maintained one advantage to a house garden, pick a spot in my garden and work that area and move onto the next spot first chance you get it never ends! Richard

Chrysalidocarpus titan beginning to gain more height. No trunk yet, easily 15ft. tall. Had to get a pic with the blooming vireya.

We bought them in 2023 at Lowe's

I have generated some probability maps for those in central and southern Florida for Sunday morning, which looks to be the worst as far as low temperatures go. All maps below are using data from NWS Blend of Models. Starting in central Florida, here is the probability of seeing temperatures less than 32F. Probabilities are quite high for at least a minimal freeze: Next up, the probability of seeing a temperature of less than 25F. Probabilities of this occurring are at least moderate, especially in the vicinity of Osceola County. Areas north of I-4 stand a greater chance: Lastly for central Florida, the probability of seeing temperatures below 20F. These probabilities are very low, but not zero. The greatest chance (still quite low), is north of I-4: Now for south Florida. Only doing 2 maps for this region. The probability of seeing temperatures less than 32F in south FL is particularly high around Lake Okeechobee. Areas in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale areas have a very low chance of seeing a light freeze as it stands right now: Lastly, the probability of seeing temperatures of 25F or lower. These probabilities are quite low, but any chance of this happening is generally confined to areas north of Lake Okeechobee: Take of this data what you will. As time moves closer, we will see how things trend, hopefully it trends warmer for everyone in the state.

The SoCal mid winter munch making a go at it.

I woke up to 24.8 this morning. Yesterday's low was 22.8. This is what they looked like yesterday:

Very brief dip to 25F this morning. Washies are not happy campers. Bizzy not showing any signs of damage but I know it will soon. Queens look mostly fine, front yard queen burn might be the result of that really dry wind. Backyard queen looks fine for now.

A spot of pruning and turning around the old kerriodoxa was beaming. And the sallehana is starting to put out a new leaf and likes its new home!

Heres the 1 having a wig out in the pot twisting around

Hard to get a good picture as its buried in behind a few things but after 10 years in the ground from a 8 inch seedling its starting to get moving prob 5ft tall hasnt split yet but growing well all year round, ive got another in a pot that fell over and started growing up whilst on the ground hates being stood up really strange what its doing

Cymbidium season has begun in my garden. They are dependable color.

Nearing 22:30 hrs - Jan. 28, 2026 - Through the kitchen window.

See if your local Home Depot or Lowe’s stock heater cables for pipes. They are thermostat controlled to switch off above freezing and a lot less likely to trip a GFCI or breaker than incandescent lights.wrap the heater cable around the trunk focusing on the growth point as the priority. Then wrap it in a tarp. You can leave the thermostat portion outside the wrapping so it will stay on while freezing outside and not just under the wrap. If you think the fronds will burn in your lows, which is likely, you can cut the fronds off in advance and wrap the tarp over the growth point. https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Frost-King-6-ft-Electric-Water-Pipe-Heat-Cable-HC6A/202262328?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&fp=ggl&pla=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=vantage&utm_campaign=106880&utm_content=109927&mtc=SHOPPING-RM-RMP-GGL-D25H-Multi-NA-FROST_KING-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-MK731149001-106880-NBR-1577-NA-VNT-FY25_Q1_Q4_ThermwellProductsCo_FrostKing_D25H_RM_ES_AON_BAUOpportunity&cm_mmc=SHOPPING-RM-RMP-GGL-D25H-Multi-NA-FROST_KING-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-MK731149001-106880-NBR-1577-NA-VNT-FY25_Q1_Q4_ThermwellProductsCo_FrostKing_D25H_RM_ES_AON_BAUOpportunity-23224722228--&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23224724871&gbraid=0AAAAAolLu9_JuRJlIkxQSOHXZIEwdlr1o&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3MDk6u2vkgMVR3R_AB30qCBLEAQYAyABEgLXA_D_BwE

IVE HAD ENOUGHHHHHH!!!! I'm gonna need these temperatures to start going back up!

The west coast is actually right about average for rainfall, remember all the flooding back in December? It's just been warm so it's all come down as rain. Historically we usually get a big dump in April/May on these dry years that brings it close to average when summer begins.

I know there are older threads with similar themes, but hopefully we can get this forum moving again. Post your pics before the snow melts.

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.

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!

Year 6 for the sabal Mexicana. The smaller is sabal palmetto 4 year seedling (trap cylinder) all were wrapped this past Friday 1/23 OKC 7b. Not to often do we get 8-9” of snow and rarely does the snow stick around for days. Hoping to unbox the sabal Mexicana in a few days

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

Climate and especially the western climate is so fascinating to me

Thanks - it has awesome colors! Hyophorbe do very well in relatively small pots. My bottle palm was in a small pot when I purchased it as well. The spear of the spindle is moving so it's rooting in. I wrapped it with a canvas tarp - the fronds are quite stiff and remain mostly upright so it's easy to wrap. Here's the bottle: Those palms in the background of the other photo are Veitchia arecina. I collected 5 seeds and they all germinated!

Yes, it looks a lot like my Butia. I got mine from Houston Garden Center in 2019. It really worked on trunk girth first and then took off. It's actually been one of my fastest growers. 😲

For once the Houston Area palm lovers are being spared and Florida is getting abused 😆❄️ .

I have dug up and moved bananas before. What I can tell you is that the corm underground gets huge fairly quickly. An established clump will usually need to be removed in pieces as its just too heavy to manage. And then you'll likely not get all of it and see new bananas popping up. Its pretty hard to kill the corm.

I have found that they need plenty of sun to flower in my climate.

Should be a few less skeeters and flies this year.

Miami and Fort Lauderdale both just hit 88F degrees Monday January 26th, which were record high temps for that day. The all-time coldest recorded temperatures ever for both cities is 28F degrees last reached about 50+ years ago. At those temps, there would be some major damage of just about everything with obliteration of vast swaths of plants. Those numbers are being thrown around here, but it will be quite an event if it were anywhere in the low 30s. It’s hit freezing here overnight just 3x in about 50 years. 1x in the past 30 years. Hope it doesn’t come to that.

More Coconut palm

Out here in Oregon it's been warm. I'm at the same latitude as the Vermont/Canada boarder, and last week was our first freeze of the year. No rain for 3 weeks and the temps have been in the 60's up in the mountains, above the fog inversion. The few ski areas are able to open are only operating about 25% of their lifts. Garden looks good though. A couple of pics from last week. The famous Mt. Hood from a few weeks ago. There should be 5-10 ft of snow at this time.

I could realy use some of that global warming tgey keep screaming about. Lol

The first night of Adonidiageddon here was 29.1F but no visible frost. It stayed under freezing for 3.5 hours. The local airport registered 34 degrees for 2 hours. Current forecast lows are still the worst on Saturday morning at 25F and Sunday morning at 27F. Back to 9A here instead of their silly 10A rating!!!

It got down to 35F here. When I woke up it was closer to 38F, but it dropped pretty quickly before the sun came up. The airport recorded just a hair under 34F for a low, so in the historical records, it will probably be marked as 34F. It may not matter much come this weekend as predictions of mid-20s or lower are now common place in the forecast models.

Forecast for last night ended up being way off. NWS predicting 30F and we bottomed out at 37F. Whole thing really a non-event here in Brownsville. Over in Mission it looks like it's down in the upper 20s.

That's a lot of work. Do you just leave it until March at this point?

24.8 in my backyard- Manvel much better than the 17° predicted a few days ago . dwarf bird of paradise look a bit sad as expected they all recovered nice from last January just to be fried again haha . And of course the bananas look gross

Man o man Jim, that looks stunning. Unbelievable based on where you’re located!

I was there yesterday and got some fruit . The thing is massive . One trunk was cut off years ago but still three healthy trunks. Terry and Sevan gave me permission to take all the seeds I want . Harry

Alongside this, we should do something what the Conifer Society does and create reference gardens at botanical gardens and universities. I know the Southeastern Chapter of the IPS puts a lot of work into palms at the Coastal GA Botanical Gardens, but what if we expanded upon this, and created reference gardens where we could. The conifer society will designate preexisting collections, but I think we as a society should work on both creating and and identifying palm collections that we believe are a good reference to the palm world. This can also tie into conservation with placing an effort on endangered and threatened palm species when we create palm collections where it is permissible to do so. And I think if our focus is universities and botanical gardens, we could easily find horticulturalist who would want to work with us who can help us create elaborate palm reference gardens. And this can be anywhere where palms grow and we could do across the U.S. And expanding the local chapters might be a way to encourage more local palm involvement so people can enjoy the palms near them without having to spend thousands to fly to the South Pacific to experience what the IPS can offer. https://www2.conifersociety.org/page/Referencegardens

It amazes me that sabal is so diverse, and really one could do so much in their landscape (if they can only really handle really cold hardy things) with just sabal minor.. that's just Minor... now add in some of the other trunkers available (louisiana, brazos, birmingham) and you could have quite a beautiful spread.