Zone 10 Palms in the Orlando Area Mega Thread

[Merlyn]

1 hour ago, RiverCityRichard said:

For real. I can’t imagine how much they paid for those. I’d wager that area is mid-z9b. If they get a chance to establish before that next 10 year freeze, they may just exist there looking haggard for most of the year. But I am curious how the Ptychosperma will do. Seeing more planted around and didn’t notice any casualties from that 2022 cold snap.

Given how many there are, I'd have to guess $50k or more?  I really don't know how much a 10+ foot cocos goes for these days, installed.  I'm interested in the Ptychosperma Elegans too, reports have them surviving into the upper 20s in kinzyjr's spreadsheet.  I am going to try them out here and see what happens.  Schefferi and Macarthurii haven't been total failures here, and grew back from the roots on two smaller 3-4' tall clumps.  I need to get back in touch with the PTers who had some Elegans available!

[pj_orlando_z9b]

Cleaned up the coconut today removing lots of boots and fruit. Clear trunk now about 9 feet. On to winter we go. 😬

[kinzyjr]

On 3/28/2019 at 5:17 PM, Jimbean said:

What about pond apple, (Annona glabra) ?

I would assume they could grow them there for some period of time between nasty freezes.  We have some CFPACS members in the Sanford/Orlando/Kissimmee areas that grow them. They are also grown at Hollis Gardens in Lakeland:

The city maintains a fruit tree digital tour here:

https://lakelandflorida.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=ceb70c93127c47239300fa348fc2536b#

 

[FlaPalmLover]

Large coconut palms in Winter Garden, Florida. Sorry if these were posted already.

[Spikeinthetriangle]

Royals and Ravenea on Lake Dora visible from the canal tour. Apologies for picture quality. Best I could do from the boat.

Lots of successful zone pushing along the Harris Chain lakes…for now. Hoping for a few more years without catastrophic cold 🤞

It’s been a somewhat miserable and protracted winter for much of central Florida. Especially north of Orlando. Heat loving palms/ plants have certainly languished, but many marginal tropicals still looking quite good in this area 

[FlaPalmLover]

On 2/24/2025 at 1:21 PM, Spikeinthetriangle said:

Royals and Ravenea on Lake Dora visible from the canal tour. Apologies for picture quality. Best I could do from the boat.

Lots of successful zone pushing along the Harris Chain lakes…for now. Hoping for a few more years without catastrophic cold 🤞

It’s been a somewhat miserable and protracted winter for much of central Florida. Especially north of Orlando. Heat loving palms/ plants have certainly languished, but many marginal tropicals still looking quite good in this area 

With climate change being what it is, I don’t see there being much of a problem zone pushing many tropical palms in that area anytime soon.