Planting shock.... patience is rewarded

[Tracy]

Before this last winter wound down, I planted a Dypsis cabadae, as temperatures were warm and the cold spells seemed to have past.  The plant didn't know that.  It went into rapid shock, with just about every leaf turning a crisp brown.  I was encouraged to see a green spike pushing up from one of the two trunks, followed by a hint of green on the other.  My wife asked me what I had done, and why I planted such a brown twig in such a highly visible spot.  My patience was rewarded though, and you would hardly know it appeared to be on the brink of death a few months back.  My February photo after the first signs of recovery followed by a shot last week.

[foxtail]

Wow, incredible. 

Congrats! !!

[doranakandawatta]

WOW,
Looking forward to seeing next months' updates, Dypsis cabadae is a real lovely species.

 

[quaman58]

Good for you Tracey; that's quite a comeback. I've had no luck with those, as I don't have the heat I think they need.

[Palm Tree Jim]

Well done......tough grow for us here in Southern California.

[Tracy]

1 hour ago, quaman58 said:

I've had no luck with those, as I don't have the heat I think they need.

Early signs are positive, but I guess it depends on whether it is the lack of heat that has been the problem you experienced or our prolonged cool, but not "cold" spells in winter.  I would expect that overall daytime highs are higher where you are.  Hopefully the brick bbq will be a little bit of a heat sync, keeping it warm as the sun sets as well as reflecting some additional heat during the day.

[DiegoGM]

Incredible! It looks fantastic

[Tracy]

11 hours ago, DiegoGM said:

Incredible! It looks fantastic

Hi Diego, just curious what you are growing in A Coruña ?  I was in a few cities in Spain this last summer, Barcelona, Madrid and Cáceres‎.  It was interesting to travel so far and see that one of the most common palms planted is Washingtonia robusta, a new world plant native to parts of Mexico, just south of where I live, and naturalized throughout Southern California.  My wife and I didn't make it up to Galicia.  How cold is it in the winters there?

Back to the D cabadae, we are starting to get some cool nights.  Sometimes our coldest weather comes in November when we get cold desert winds blowing toward the ocean, blowing off the marine layer of moisture.  Normally the marine layer holds in some heat, but when those Santa Ana winds blow, we hit our lowest overnight lows right by the ocean.  I'm hoping the D cabadae doesn't do what it did when I planted it last winter, and this will be it's first winter test since planting.  I'll try to share an update of what it does after some of our coldest spells.

[Tracy]

I know its not been long since I posted this string, but a quick photo as we depart our warm nights and enter our cold night period.  Hopefully this newbie still looks good next Spring.

[Sanips]

On 31/10/2016 14:21:51, Tracy said:

Hi Diego, just curious what you are growing in A Coruña ?  I was in a few cities in Spain this last summer, Barcelona, Madrid and Cáceres‎.  It was interesting to travel so far and see that one of the most common palms planted is Washingtonia robusta, a new world plant native to parts of Mexico, just south of where I live, and naturalized throughout Southern California.  My wife and I didn't make it up to Galicia.  How cold is it in the winters there?

Back to the D cabadae, we are starting to get some cool nights.  Sometimes our coldest weather comes in November when we get cold desert winds blowing toward the ocean, blowing off the marine layer of moisture.  Normally the marine layer holds in some heat, but when those Santa Ana winds blow, we hit our lowest overnight lows right by the ocean.  I'm hoping the D cabadae doesn't do what it did when I planted it last winter, and this will be it's first winter test since planting.  I'll try to share an update of what it does after some of our coldest spells.

A Coruña is warmer enough to have mature old Kentias like this one 

The absolute minimum temp registered was 26.6ºF (-3) and it happened on February 1948. The anual average temp is 58.6ºF (14.8ºC). I lived there a year and it could be quite rainy and windy sometimes.

 

Edited November 14, 2016 by Sanips

[Tracy]

20 hours ago, Sanips said:

The absolute minimum temp registered was 26.6ºF (-3) and it happened on February 1948. The anual average temp is 58.6ºF (14.8ºC). I lived there a year and it could be quite rainy and windy sometimes.

Nice!  Sounds like you can probably grow a lot of things there.

[Sanips]

15 hours ago, Tracy said:

Nice!  Sounds like you can probably grow a lot of things there.

Yes, I think @DiegoGM is trying stuff like ceroxylons, hedyscepe canterburyana, tree ferns... He could tell us better.

[DiegoGM]

On 31/10/2016 14:21:51, Tracy said:

Hi Diego, just curious what you are growing in A Coruña ?  I was in a few cities in Spain this last summer, Barcelona, Madrid and Cáceres‎.  It was interesting to travel so far and see that one of the most common palms planted is Washingtonia robusta, a new world plant native to parts of Mexico, just south of where I live, and naturalized throughout Southern California.  My wife and I didn't make it up to Galicia.  How cold is it in the winters there?

Back to the D cabadae, we are starting to get some cool nights.  Sometimes our coldest weather comes in November when we get cold desert winds blowing toward the ocean, blowing off the marine layer of moisture.  Normally the marine layer holds in some heat, but when those Santa Ana winds blow, we hit our lowest overnight lows right by the ocean.  I'm hoping the D cabadae doesn't do what it did when I planted it last winter, and this will be it's first winter test since planting.  I'll try to share an update of what it does after some of our coldest spells.

Hi tracy

A Coruña have a warm oceanic climate, like Auckland. 75-61 F in summer and 57-45 F in winter. We have 0-5 frost every year, but  they are shorts 1-2 h and weak, 32-30 F. My garden in very young but nowadays i can grow howea fosteriana, howea belmoreana, hedyscepe canterburyana, syagrus romanzoffiana, archontophoenix purpurea, archontophoenix alexandrae, archontophoenix cunninghamiana, ceroxylon quinduense, ceroxylon alpinum, chambeyronia macrocarpa and rhopalostylis sapida.

Of couse i have others subtropicals like cyathea cooperi, cyathea medullaris (giant form), cyathea milney, cyathea cooperi (crested), cyathea large crown, ensete ventricosum, ensete ventricosum maurellii, musa sikkimensis, alpinia caerulea, canna sp, alcantarea imperialis, dracaena drago, phyllostachys vivax aureocaulis, phyllostachys nigra boryana, tetrapanax papirifer, araucaria heterophylla, araucaria bidwilli, ficus macrophylla columnaris and heliconia schiedeana.

[Tracy]

On 8/8/2016, 7:38:13, doranakandawatta said:

Looking forward to seeing next months' updates, Dypsis cabadae is a real lovely species.

11 months after the "ugly photo", where it appears near death, its weathering this winter much better thus far.  A bit of yellowing, but I'm seeing that throughout the garden, across several genus and species of palms.  I can only hope that it continues to be a good grow for me in my climate, as I do agree, it is a lovely species!

[GottmitAlex]

7 minutes ago, Tracy said:

11 months after the "ugly photo", where it appears near death, its weathering this winter much better thus far.  A bit of yellowing, but I'm seeing that throughout the garden, across several genus and species of palms.  I can only hope that it continues to be a good grow for me in my climate, as I do agree, it is a lovely species!

It's a beautiful species.