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Photos from January 2026 along the Elliott Coues Nature Trail at Fort Macon State Park (Atlantic Beach, North Carolina)

A few more germinated seeds that need to be potted up. Lucked up with a few more dypsis minuta popping up. A good germination rate on the large form dasyantha and a few Pinanga spiralis. I used a fork to tease the seedlings out and will repot the rest the next chance I get, I hope this helps @Than it’s an easy process just don’t fuss over them.

I went ahead and put the Lepidorrachis in the ground today, since the weather dial in CA seems to be permanently set to "warm/sunny". I chose the more sheltered spot. It'll remain in good shade throughout the year and I hope it will do well. The trunk at the top left of the second photo is cousin Hedy.

Satakentia, trunk is clean, smooth, and straight as an arrow. Looking good in the afternoon sun. Tim

In our last significant freeze in 2010, Adonidia took a few weeks to show damage. We probably won't know full extent of cold damage until March.

Alfredii looks like a winner here! Those coconuts in Satellite Beach…. Ouch.

For the overnight of Feb 1st: South Florida is protected by a lot of nearby water and the Gulf Stream. The all time record low for Brownsville TX is 12F and for Miami and Fort Lauderdale is 28F, both records in the distant past. We bottomed out at 35F, or so, for maybe an hour in the AM here this time. The predominant plants are quite tropical here, and at those temps, some did take damage, though not severe. (Jensen Beach, FL hit 29F for this event)

Throwing em in the ground while the summer heat and rain is about. With so many good plants to choose from and only wanting the best ones for the driveway garden! And i finally got a spot the newly acquired Zamia skinneri. 5 years time should see all the new plants fitting into the garden well. carlucdova palmatadypsis pinnatafrons ficus damearopsis draceana goldieana sabinara magnifica chamaedorea deckeriana

So it looks like I took a severe hit. Just got home and of course it's dark out, but overall, it doesn't look good from a first inspection. So we hit 26f for around an hour and were under 32 for about 11 hours. The second night, we dropped to 31 for maybe 30 minutes. So here are some data points for anyone curious: The coconut looks like it just took a severe beating. Still has green ribs on the fronds but the leaflets are mostly browned out. Certainly losing all the fronds. Can't tell what the spear looks like at this point. Hate that I have to ask, does any green on the palm mean it's heart is still beating? Maybe there's a chance??? Archontopheonix Alexandrae: this is a small palm, maybe 2 ft of trunk. Totally browned out. Archontopheonix Tuckeri: these were next to a big boulder wall but without much of a canopy. 2ft of trunk. They look great, very little yellowing. Buccaneer palm: this guy was out in the open and took this like a champ. Looks great. We'll see how it looks in the daylight but I'm seeing very little bronzing. One of the top performers for sure. Dypsis pembanas: I have a lot of these. Some bronzed a bit but doesn't look bad. Most of them look really good. I think the clumping ones handle these cold spells the best since the sheer volume of tightly packed fronds help protect each other. They handled this probably the second best to the Buccaneer. Dypsis lutescens: I have a lot of these as well. They did well, also heavily clumped so they managed things just fine. Some bronzing to the exterior fronds that were exposed the most. Some variety of a Christmas palm: didn't do very well, think I Iost these (2). 8ft trunk and 3ft trunk. Keptiosis olivformis: these are big specimens, trunk at least 15 ft. I have 5 of them. One was heavily exposed to the wind and looks really beat up. Lots of bronzing but still plenty of green. 2 that are protected by some bamboo and the side of the house look unscathed. 2 more that were not as well protected but not totally exposed look to be bronzed but ok. They should be able to push through. Areca vestiaria: this little palm doesn't do much growing for me but it didn't skip a beat. I was very surprised to see it not browned out completely. But it looks just as good now as it did before the storm. Roystonea regia: this one is a big tree with plenty of grey wood, at least 15 ft. Its hard to tell how it did. I can see green ribs but can't get a good view on the frond leaflets. At first impression, it seemed like it was ok but now I'm thinking there's a lot of brown. This one was out in the open and was totally exposed. I'll have to report back. Chambeyronia macrocarpa: got blasted. Green ribs and crownshafts look good but the leaflets are browned out. I had 3 healthy ones and 2 that were struggling from the hurricanes over the last couple years. The 2 that were struggling I think got wiped out. The other 3, maybe a chance. It'll take a really long time though to see this recovery since I only get 3 new fronds a year if I'm lucky. Very sad to see all the years of work wiped out so quickly. But that's the game we play up here in Central FL.

If the bud is still alive it'll start pushing the "dead" spear further up to "normal" length anyway. If the bud is ok the biggest risk is a fungal infection. For anything within reach I'll be doing a hydrogen peroxide pour and follow up with Daconil. Hopefully that'll be a good preventative for things that don't have a D-E-D bud or trunk daamage. I will probably do a soil drench of Banrot or Alliette on many palms and cycads, starting tomorrow. I am not planning on cutting any fronds or chopping anything down until March, except in cases where it's blatantly obvious. There are some small seedlings that are obviously burnt to a crisp and have no chance. I'll be marking a lot of spears horizontally with a sharpie to check for movement.

Here's a view of the windy 22.6F and then 24.4F with light frost does to the backyard: The two Bottles on the right were already badly damaged from previous upper 20s frosts. The foxtails and fishtails on the right are almost completely brown. Oddly enough the Ptychosperma Schefferi just behind the Bottles looks discolored but maybe ok? I really thought that one was a wimp? The Alfredii looks much worse today than yesterday, and has turned a sickly olive. To the right of the Alfredii a Cryosophila Warscewiczii looks really good, but Cyphophoenix Nucele and Elaeis Guineensis "Whole Leaf" mutant are torched. On the left a Dioon Spinulosum and Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus Lanceolata are torched. Elsewhere Lutescens and Pembana are equally burnt. Not quite visible is a badly burned Attalea Brejinhoensis, and of course on the far left a Sabal "Lisa" looks like nothing happened. Up front I had more tender species, since it's usually a few degrees warmer in the front yard: The 3 Kings on the right are likely dead, the Arenga Pinnata hard to say, and the giant Encephalartos Ituriensis is defoliated. Around the front a bunch of Encephalartos are also badly burned, with Ituriensis, Laurentianus and Gratus x Laurentianus at least partially defoliated. The "Jesse Durko" bamboo is rapidly becoming a mass of sticks: On the East side the Philodendron Selloum turned to stinky mush the first night. On the far left a Butia shrugged it off, but a pair of Kings are scarlet red. Just below the octagon window another Elaeis Guineensis is torched just as bad as the background fishtail and right foreground Arenga Pinnata. The box in the bottom foreground covered a Corypha Umbraculifera. With the box as protection the fans were burnt off but the petioles and new spear still look ok: Just to the left of the above photo a pair of 20+ foot Alfredii still look tattered but reasonably decent. The Encephalartos Kisambo shrugged it off:

Some surprises in the yard. My cheapo vevor weather station recorded 26, 24 and 28 the last 3 days now my area is cold a lot compared to other parts of fl I have already seen 27 and 28 degrees a handful of times this year and freezing temps to many to count lol. The biggest winner in my yard to me is arecas. Under canopy they are completely untouched in the open tops are scorched. coconut palm it was defoliated last winter at 27 it looks better after this than 1 night of 27 last year. Foxtail did worse than last year but not much same with royal

Houston isn't anywhere near the latitude of central Florida or Orlando. It falls right around St Augustine and long term is pretty analogous to that region of northeastern Florida. All time record lows in the 1980s and 1890s are very similar in Houston-Galveston and Jacksonville-St Augustine. A 2021 event in Florida would have snow on the ground in Jacksonville for days with consecutive freezing hours numbering in the days, not hours. With a low somewhere in the low-mid teens. The January 2025 snowstorm that nuked Louisiana through to the western FL Panhandle was pretty similar. Florida really starts to diverge temp-wise relative to latitude deeper in the peninsula with increasing water moderation. Roughly around a line from Daytona to Ocala to the Gulf +/-. All places south of there are warmer or much warmer than the equivalent latitude in TX. Nothing to debate there. Extreme southern Texas might draw comparisons to central Florida, not Miami. Miami/southeast Florida especially is crazy crazy warm, one of the most anomalously warm places on earth. It's warmer there than 21-22 degrees latitude in Mexico along the Gulf, coastal Vietnam at 18 degrees latitude, etc. A continental location at 25-26 degrees latitude with a nearly 70 degree average mean temp in January is absolutely bonkers. Some winters don't even drop below 50F. Don't want to detail this thread into some climate debate comparison. Hopefully winter is over for all of us!

Iin Belle Isle, here is my summary for 2/1: 10.5 hrs 32.0 or lower 6.5 hrs 28-32 4 hrs 25.7 - 28 For 2/2: bottomed at 34.5 as light west winds off the lake gave me protection from radiational cooling. Winds were relentless. 50 mph gusts destroyed my coco frame and even started unraveling wraps. Coco and foxtail: protected but heavily bronzed with a smidge of green on some fronds near the top. Foxtail same. Christmas palms: protected. As of now, more green than i expected. But I assume all will brown over next couple weeks. Beccariophoenix in pic below looks good. A few bronzed tips. I'll give other updates soon but these are my priorities. One observation...there js a new 2 story home in Belle Isle that has foxtails on the east side, wind protected. Brown but the one against the house looked as I drove by today, to be completely green. I had to do a double take but was driving by. I will.go verify this week and take a picture if I saw correctly.

Common but colourful Radicalis.

My students and I have been landscaping our school for 40 years and we have a long-tested collection of Sabal palms. I thought that people in zone 8* would be interested in what can be grown long term. The coldest temps these palms have experienced is low teens. I will add more pics if people are interested. The list: S. causiarum, S. minor, S. tamaulipensis, S. rosei, S. x texensis, S. uresana (green and silver), S. pumos, S. bermudana, S. mexicana, S. etonia, S. palmetto Lisa. (4 years old). Added last summer: S. blackburniana, S. miamiensis. In our area, S. palmetto reseeds like crazy. S. minor is native and common in low lying areas. Rhapidophyllum and Serenoa are native about 1 hour south of town. Pictures in order top to bottom: S. causiarum, S. uresana (silver), S. tamaulipensis, S. Lisa, S. Riverside, S. palmetto

@Kiplin if the lower part of the spear is still green I'd mark it horizontally against a nearby frond with a sharpie. That way you can see if it's pushing growth next week. As long as it keeps moving then the bud is alive. Don't cut anything off or give up until it's stationary for several weeks straight. Some stuff might not really grow until well into March. Likewise if the leaflets are dead but the frond stem (rachis and/or petiole) is still green then don't cut it off. For recovery any palm will need nutrients, and anything green still provides nutrients. My treatment for bud rot is a big squirt of hydrogen peroxide, followed up later with Daconil. I got that from other people on PalmTalk and it's been pretty effective. Another PT'er said to use Mancozeb on crown rots. Halley said this was very effective on his Alfredii seedlings. I've bought some but haven't tried it yet. For some of your palms, this is my experience from repeated 27-30F frosts and one night at 24.4F with frost: Pembana, Lutescens, Christmas, Macrocarpa and K.O. (now changed to C.O.) - all had problems with crown/bud rot after cold fronts. They did ok with defoliation and recovery, but some caught a bud rot and died. Pembana and Lutescens I lost trunks out of the cluster but most of the time they grew back. I did lose one big Pembana cluster from upper trunk rot (likely Thielaviopsis). Archontophoenix - Most grew back from defoliation in the upper 20s, with one Tuckeri surviving 24.4F + frost and still growing fine. Hopefully these are "bud hardy" even if they get defoliated. Royal - I've seen these get torched in Lake Mary/Sanford and grow a new frond a few weeks later. Maybe these are "leaf wimpy" but "bud hardy?" Buccaneer - very tough. I lost a small one to a random summer bud rot, unrelated to cold. Otherwise tough to 20? Areca Vestiaria - now that's unusual. Most Areca are absolute wimps to cold. If that survives 26F at your place I need to plant one here!!! Some stuff that was a sickly olive green has turned crispy brown today. For sure it'll be bonfire time in a few weeks...

Nice! Hopefully many happy years of growing ahead. They're pretty distant cousins as it turns out. Lepidorrachis is subtribe Basseliniinae, so related to Basselinia, Cyphophoenix, etc, and Hedyscepe is with Rhopalostylis in subtribe Rhopalostylidinae, which was previously included in Archontophoenicinae (what a mouthful!). Fascinating how such a small island can have four endemic palms and only two are closely related!

Sabal minor? And is the spikey guy some sort of yucca?? Not a family associated with the US east coast in my mind for some reason, more the south west...very interesting!

Pictures from yesterday of nearby damage. Next-door Across the street looking south Across the street looking north Driving around the neighborhood, there are several dozen scenes like these.

First one is Chrysalidiocarpus Lutescens and I do believe the second is Washingtonia Robusta. Harry

And a couple of last photos for today. The two Alfredii are peeking up over the mass of dead Tiger Grass leaves, but the Sabal Mauritiiformis looks pretty good! Encephalartos Ituriensis on the left is pretty bad...: I didn't get a good photo of the Copernicia Baileyana today, but it looks really good. The fans of the below Fallaensis peeking up in the middle are a bit burnt, but the other sheltered ones look fine. The Cycas Multipinnata is defoliated, and the crimson red Dioon Spinulosum on the right is impressive. A small Syagrus Schizophylla in the lower middle looks D-E-D, which is surprising. I thought Schizophylla was pretty hardy. The Furfuracea is crispy as expected, and even the lower left Dioon Merolae isn't happy: And this is the "Whole Leaf" mutant Elaeis Guineensis with complete burn up top. The lower petioles are still green, so hopefully it'll have enough energy to grow back: Here's the somewhat damaged Ptychosperma Schefferi on the left, a wilty Cycas Multipinnata in the middle, and a plant I hadn't even noticed before. In the upper right is a "volunteer" Cycas Micholitzii. I thought it was an offset from the Multipinnata, but it's about 2 feet away! There are some surprisingly good successes out there, like unprotected Syagrus Amara, Sancona and Lorenzoniorum seedlings in good shape. A batch of Kerriodoxa Elegans, Licuala Ramsayi and Distans and Sumawongii, Chuniophoenix Hainanensis and Nana all looking like there wasn't even a cold front. Others are probably already D-E-D like Ravenea Hildebrandtii, Dypsis Cabadae, Syagrus Schizophylla, Cyphophoenix Alba, Nucele and Elegans, and a couple of Burretiokentia Hapala and Viellardii. But then there's a 5' tall Carpentaria Acuminata that looks so far really good...go figure.

And a couple of last photos for today. The two Alfredii are peeking up over the mass of dead Tiger Grass leaves, but the Sabal Mauritiiformis looks pretty good! Encephalartos Ituriensis on the left is pretty bad...: I didn't get a good photo of the Copernicia Baileyana today, but it looks really good. The fans of the below Fallaensis peeking up in the middle are a bit burnt, but the other sheltered ones look fine. The Cycas Multipinnata is defoliated, and the crimson red Dioon Spinulosum on the right is impressive. A small Syagrus Schizophylla in the lower middle looks D-E-D, which is surprising. I thought Schizophylla was pretty hardy. The Furfuracea is crispy as expected, and even the lower left Dioon Merolae isn't happy:

In the 90"s I was buying a lot of palms to try out from Inge Hoffman in California and in Ft. Lauderdale and other places in Florida. I wanted to try just about anything to see what would work. I had great success, but wasn't as careful as I should have been about tags, since I assumed I was on some sort of horticultural fantasy tour. Well, lots of things worked really well. The biggest failure was S. maritima. It never died, but lost its foliage every winter, so I took it out. I bought two palms from Fr. Lauderdale (mail order). I've lost the receipt, so I don't know who the vendor was. I assumed they wouldn't make it for too many winters. Wrong! They did great. One is definitely S. Bermudan, but the other was shy to bear seed until last year. It's a big tree, 16' overall. It had a bumper crop of seeds last year and the President of the Southeastern Palm Society was visiting and said that he thought it was S. pumos because of the size of the seeds. With the fruit on them, they are truly huge. How did I get the. thing? Speculation time: True - Dr. Scott Zona was working on his survey of Sabal and had collected pumos seed in Western Mexico. Here's the speculation: seeds might have been shared/distributed with South Florida palm people and I lucked up (by accident) with a baby. It has grown beautifully along with S. rosei, also from W. Mexico. Rosei bears smallish seed precociously and I'm on my second generation of mature adults. The pumos took forever to bear seed. The pictures show relative seed size of the Sabals that I have. Tom McClendon lined them up. We're going to do the same thing again on graph paper, so there is a real measurement shown.

Planting a sabinara magnifica gets my attention today!

Planting a sabinara magnifica gets my attention today!

Licuala peltata var. sumawongii. Spectacular palm with huge leaves. Tim

Here is my latest photo of my Hyphaene Compressa. I found out it is a female. So now I have a male and a female. What are the chances of this happening! I'm excited! Only problem is that they are getting so tall, it will be hard to harvest the seeds! Rod Phoenix, Az

After the 2018 hard freeze, there were good discussions about talls vs Malayan Dwarf hardiness. In Orlando, talls aren't common but the I-Drive coconut is one. Will try to take a pic today. In 2018, the I-Drive coconut showed a little less damage than the Malayans but recovered much faster.

The three burnt coconut trees in the back have distinctly yellow/orange nuts, the one in the foreground has green ones. That is some good information on the cold hardiness of your Panama tall vs Malayan dwarves, thanks for that. I had a bizarre experience with some cold weather and Malayan dwarves that may be interesting. Not sure of the year, maybe 2004, a strong cold front came through followed by high winds and extremely dry air. I had just planted 4 Malayan dwarves in my front yard, walmart specials. My bright idea was to points a strong stream of water into the wind so that it would blow back over the coconuts, thinking this would keep everything warmer. When I woke up the next morning there was no freeze and the neighbor's plants mostly undamaged, but my front yard was a winter wonderland coated in ice, I guess because of evaporative cooling in the dry air. The coconuts stayed green for a couple of weeks but they were goners.

Those are good questions. Not sure of the variety. I think coconut is even more sensitive to cold weather that Adonidia merrillii. Even though it never froze here in 2010, my rough estimate is about 70% coconut mortality by 2011 after the long cool spells of 2010 and again in 2011. According to UF/IFAS (https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ST658) Christmas palms are considered to be cold hardy down to about 30°F. As Zeeth suggests maybe the Adonidia are slower to show the full extent of damage. Many here inland who keep their coconuts alive through freezing weather have far more experience than me, but I can't imagine coconuts can tolerate freezing temperature for more that a couple of hours, much less the 9-10 hour freeze we just experienced.

Had a low of 34F this morning. Get a little break from cold temps tonight before the next front moves in. Looking at 32F Wednesday night then 30F on Thursday night. After that, I don't know when the next freeze will be, but I'm sure there will be another towards the end of February into March.

Yes! There is also naturalized Sabal palmetto in the park. Also yes! I'm not sure what specific species of yucca though. These are common in coastal NC, especially on or near the dunes.

Yeah it probably gets a lot more water allowing it to maintain many more leaves than it would in say a more deserty place. Another thing too people there probably don’t trim palms as much just for the sake of trimming. Sure the fire risk exists but a lot of washies get buzz cut on the monthly it’s refreshing to see one with a dense crown.

Well, my last video is Sancho pooping to Salt N Pepa's Push It which probably isn't a good fit for this audience here. Or any audience really. It'd just be nice for continuity. The links, not the pooping. It was dark so it wasn't terribly gross but you could tell.

@JohnAndSancho Instagram links are a bit strange. They will embed perfectly fine on some apps but not others. There are 3rd party sites to work around this, but they get shut down pretty quick due to Meta rules.

Saw some incredibly low temps in Brevard this morning, multiple personal stations at 21 degrees, all on the mainland of course. Merritt island was far warmer, as was Orlando.

I wasn't able to get an accurate measurement in my yard due to all the drifting, but Swansboro in Onslow County recorded 17 inches and Peletier in Carteret County recorded 19.5 inches. Both communities are within a few miles of me.

The NWS recorded a minimum of 24.3F overnight at ~4:15AM. Temperatures in my yard ranged from 26F-28F. The forecasts throughout the area was for 27F-28F, so respectably close. It wasn't as mild as @pj_orlando_z9b's place, but better than another 24F on the board. The forecast tonight is for 30F. At this point, there's a chance that a few of the damaged palms here will live, but if we get another spell like this, they'll definitely be headed to the mulch pile. The lineup for the first half of the month is less than impressive by our standards:

I have things to take care of tomorrow morning so I won't be able to take screenshots for day 3. @Matthew92@JJPalmer@UK_Palms If you want to, or anyone else.

We live in N Houston, and after losing all our palms and fruit trees to the polar vortex freeze in 2021, we decided to start covering when temps drop below 24. It’s work, but we order 40’x40’ 4mil plastic and put heat lamps under. The canopy droops a little when we pull it off and fronds look a little beat up, but it’s better than the alternative. Problem is, the sun shines and temps hit 60+ before the final sub 25 degree night, so we run shop fans under the plastic during the day to keep them from sun scorch till we can finally remove it. This has kept our 12 year old Mule palm healthy for the last 3 years we’ve had it in the ground. People say it’s too much work for them, but Christmas lights are just as much work and you only get a month to enjoy. We love our mule and it’s worth it to us to sit and watch the lacy fronds dance in the wind all year. Such a beautiful hybrid palm species.

Not taking any chances here lol

Well my two orange trees survived the deep freeze and snow event in January 2025 just fine (amazingly!) in reference to my last post. There wasn’t even that much twig dieback. They didn’t bear much after with the Glen navel having a grand total of 1 fruit on it and the Parson Brown about 25. They got whitefly+sooty mold really bad as I didn’t keep on top of the whiteflies enough but the trees remained vigorous otherwise. Here they are today after enduring two nights at 20 deg (the first being windy advective and the 2nd calm/radiational). I didn’t do any protection; however, just to the north of them is my 6x10ft and about 7 ft high greenhouse and the fence to the west probably helped block some of the bitter winds somewhat. We’ve had a good amount of cold weather before this event so I think they were sufficiently dormant to not be shocked like they were in Dec 2022. They’re quite stressed and I think there’s going to be quite a lot of leaf drop but they should survive without too much dieback from what I can tell. They’ve been through as bad or worse before. Also it’s actually kind of good when they drop some leaves or even die back a little because it really knocks back the insect pests (such as whitefly, leaf miner) and the new growth in spring is unafflicted and pristine for awhile. Parson Brown on the left, Glen navel on the right Parson Brown Glen navel Many of the interior leaves look good still

Hard to tell but if you look closely the cardboard palms are about half brown. Strelitzia nicolai mostly unscathed? Or just not showing damage yet. I’d be surprised if they don’t show more damage. When I visited Disney after January 2018 I found some Strelitzia nicolai at the Polynesian that were mostly trunk as the damaged leaves had to be cut away. And that feeeze was not even as severe as this one. In my town, I notice that at around 26-27deg and below is when the leaves will start to get all brown and contorted. A damaged Crinum lily alongside some shrub hedge that is also damaged.

Disney’s Polynesian this morning. Heliconia leaves looked curled but haven’t turned brown yet. Foxtails definitely showing it

From Sunday, 1 February 2026. We had 3.5" of fluffy snow - no heavy ice or sleet. The lowest low was around 17F briefly and we made it way above freezing every day during this winter insult. The cycads will have to be defoliated which is not an issue. They'll recover quickly and the defoliation will remove a lot of scale.

We got live ones under the covers! Unprotected Queens and bismarckia have some discoloration at the leaf tips if you look closely (the burn will show up later) Euterpe edulis lives to see another summer Cyphophoenix elegans Lychee new growth looks good to go

Hey all - I'm in New Smyrna Beach on the barrier island and have a lot of nice specimens in my yard so naturally am freaking out a bit, as many here are too. I soaked my grounds over 2 days time leading up to the event hoping that along with the coastal location might help mitigate damage. I put some C9 Christmas lights up around 3 of my palms...2 Ptychosperma elegans and 1 Archontophoenix cunninghamiana. And heating pads around the trunk of my Satakentia liukiuensis . I also brought as much potted material inside my home as possible.....palms, bromeliads, orchids, crotons, & misc. So there was still a lot outside and exposed. I have numerous Archontophoenix palms on the property, 2 Royals, a Dypsis cabadae, large Areca lutescens that was here when I bought the place 30 years ago, 3 large Coconuts planted back in 2017 from 30 gal pots, various Cycads including 2 very nice Queen Sagos, some Dypsis pembana - 2 still in pots and 1 planted, a nice Veitchia joannis, a very nice double trunk Dictyosperma album plus some in pots, a nice trio of very mature Foxtails that I planted back in '06, a nice Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, and some other odds and ends including many that are considered cold hardy so I wont mention those. I just came in from a walkabout on my property and am see damage on a few including the Coconuts, Satakentia, Royals, but the Archontophonix are actually looking stout at this time. Some off color but nothing like the others that are showing damage. I realize we won't know the extent of damage yet for a week or so but wanted to share what I'm seeing in my location. Cheers! My Satakentia: One of my 3 Coconuts. They are all the same size: My Veitchia joannis: My Bottle: My 3 Foxtails: My 2 Royals: My double trunk Dictyosperma album"

So I know that you were not happy with me and my comments before but this is exactly what I was trying to convey. I was not trying to hurt your feelings or be unsupportive of your ventures. I was simply advising you of the harsh reality of nature. Nature does not care what mankind has described a region to be or that a general trend of warm temperatures is a sign of some sort of absolute minimum temperature. This type of thing happens and will continue to happen. I have (as well as many others) seen this occur several times in my lifetime and have come to the realization that Florida is not immune to intense arctic cold fronts, especially at the worst possible time. Planting tropical palm trees in Florida is always a risk as is any zone pushing. If you want to grow coconuts and similar palms, that’s great but they will never be viable long term in North Florida. And as you can see, even Central Florida is not a sure thing. At this point, there are people in South Florida who are worried because they have super tropical stuff like Areca Vestiaria and Cyrtostachys Renda in the ground. So they have been zone pushing too and it had been working out due to the moderate winters. But it had risk all along just like growing Coconuts and Adonidia in Jacksonville. Wrap your plants, add lights, move what you can indoors and hope for the best. But if your plants die, you will always be able to replace them. It just depends on whether you want to continue spending money on temporary plants.

Cyphosperma naboutiniense. Tim