Palms a year after cold snap in Nola

[ShadowNight030]

I went down to New Orleans for the weekend, and while I was down I kinda looked around at palms since I haven’t really seen many of them since the winter of 2017/2018 when the city hit 18-20 degrees. The drive down I remember a queen being in New Roads, and earlier this year it had new growth, but I did not see it on my drive down. I didn’t see a queen in Baton Rouge, either. Now in Nola, queens and Pygmy dates looked fine. I did see 2 dead Pygmy dates, but compared to how many I saw alive and well is pretty good. Queens had full crowns, at least most did. I saw a few that looked like they were struggling or they were dead. In Kenner I saw 3 fruiting papaya trees. I didn’t have enough time to look around the neighborhoods in detail, so I don’t know how Bismarck palms faired. I’m sure the foxtail palms and royal palms didn’t make it. Then the palms that looked beautiful and full were the dates, sabals, washingtonias. I saw near canal street where a grouping of yucca elephantipes are, they were cut down about half way. I did see a fair amount of rhapis palms that looked good. 

[Tropicdoc]

Ditto. Wwas in NOLA 3 days ago and the queens looked very, very nice. When we have normal winters, I find our queens here look better than other places in the US. It is probably the black clay soil and steady rainfall. They say queens are heavy feeders and I understand black clay is very fertile. (It just doesn't drain well at all)

[Sabal_Louisiana]

This past mild winter (lacking of freezes) was a much needed break for our palms and other tropicals to recover from the damage of the Jan 2018. Already, things are looking robust for the year ahead. Provided we dont get hit with a TPPD epidemic as in Florida. A lot of palms are looking good but some look bad only because proper maintenance is neglected.

I was surprised to see a couple of large, very healthy Queens in Spanish Town in Baton Rouge the other day. Good microclimate and some protection is what saved them maybe? They are not new and have been around for some time.

In February i saw a Queen around Morgan City putting on fresh growth - dormant for over a year after presumed dead. I've never seen one at least try to recover after that long.