Photos of palm trees in Albuquerque. Cold Hardy Palms

[GabrielPalms]

Hi everyone. My name is Gabriel and I want to show you pictures of palm trees in Albuquerque New Mexico USDA zone 7a 7b.  Enjoy!

[GabrielPalms]

This first one I went to go see the other day and it is a Washingtonia Filifera or California fan palm. Very big palm!. 

[GabrielPalms]

This next one is one of my favorites. This is a windmill palm or a trachycarpus fortunei. They always have Christmas lights on them. 

[GabrielPalms]

This one is another California fan palm and this one also has some windmill palms. 

Edited November 9, 2022 by GabrielPalms

[GabrielPalms]

This is another windmill palm and is very big.

[DTS]

nice looking palms!

[GabrielPalms]

2 hours ago, DTS1 said:

nice looking palms!

Yes they are beautiful palms in the summer and fall, and part of spring. The windmill palms stay green all year round, but the Washingtonia Filifera loose there green in the winter and grow right back in mid spring.

[GabrielPalms]

These palms are windmill palms and there is 3 big ones and a bunch of babies or seedlings under it, some 1-2 ft tall. These windmill palms are pretty tall. 

[GabrielPalms]

This is a Washingtonia Robusta or Mexican fan palm, I don't know if it is alive today, this picture was in winter and was getting protected.

[GabrielPalms]

This was another Mexican fan palm, but it is dead today, this picture was in 2011. I don't think it was ever protected. 

[GabrielPalms]

This is a date palm I think, or a sago? Let me know. 

[jwitt]

54 minutes ago, GabrielPalms said:

This was another Mexican fan palm, but it is dead today, this picture was in 2011. I don't think it was ever protected. 

This is what I termed a skinny filifera.  Your picture proves it lived thru 2 back to back nights of -11f.  It saw zero again the next winter and then succumbed. Never protected.  Google street view proves this.  There are fatter Trunked specimens near this one that all lived. So in a nutshell, this is the only palm in this neighborhood that succumbed, over a year later. 

Some of the neighboring palms are unprecedented and unmatched temperature wise,  anywhere. Anywhere. Period.

Welcome, from Rio Rancho 

Oh, and I'll add, this specific palm even leafed out in spring 2012 then done. Believe it or not!

Edited November 10, 2022 by jwitt

[jwitt]

52 minutes ago, GabrielPalms said:

This is a date palm I think, or a sago? Let me know. 

CIDP suffering from insufficient growing season and near yearly total defoliation.  My best guess.

Those rocks are the reason it lives

[jwitt]

1 hour ago, GabrielPalms said:

These palms are windmill palms and there is 3 big ones and a bunch of babies or seedlings under it, some 1-2 ft tall. These windmill palms are pretty tall. 

Hint, there are and were some rumoured 1971 survivors here.  I became aware of these(2) and another one in the north valley in the late 1970's.  I worked in the nursery trade at that time(late 70's) here locally.  

I won't mention the row of filiferas south of downtown that succumbed in 1971. 

This is all second hand knowledge eight years or so after the fact. 

These pictured lack sufficient water for what would be considered normal growth rates. 

[jwitt]

6 hours ago, GabrielPalms said:

Hi everyone. My name is Gabriel and I want to show you pictures of palm trees in Albuquerque New Mexico USDA zone 7a 7b.  Enjoy!

A couple you posted are actually a warm 6b.  Westside near river north of paseo and Corrales.

Edited November 10, 2022 by jwitt

[GabrielPalms]

Some more windmill palms at this house has a lot of little ones. There is palms all around the house

[GabrielPalms]

On 11/9/2022 at 9:17 PM, jwitt said:

A couple you posted are actually a warm 6b.  Westside near river north of paseo and Corrales.

Oh ok, Albuquerque/Rio rancho is 6b/7a but some of Albuquerque is also 7b. It would be cool if some of Albuquerque was zone 8, because then more palms could grow here. 

[GabrielPalms]

These Windmill Palms at the house in Corrales/Albuquerque had a bunch of seed on them when I went to go see the Washingtonia Filiferas there. There is a lot of Washingtonia Filifera in that area. Right by the Seven Bar Ranch, by Alameda and Coors bypass 

[jwitt]

14 hours ago, GabrielPalms said:

Oh ok, Albuquerque/Rio rancho is 6b/7a but some of Albuquerque is also 7b. It would be cool if some of Albuquerque was zone 8, because then more palms could grow here. 

Much of ABQ is zone 8. 

6b only along the river north of Paseo.  Zone 7 and 8 west of Coors roughly.  Until up near the Volcanoes, Double eagle, the zone 6b again. 

I would venture far NE ABQ is nearly 8b. But you won't find long-term palms there.

Edited November 12, 2022 by jwitt

[Jtee]

I noticed the house in Stranger Things, the one filmed in Albuquerque has a small filifera or a robusta out front, I looked back on Google maps and it wasn’t there in the past, maybe the film crew added it to give it a more California look. 

 

Edited November 13, 2022 by Jtee

[GabrielPalms]

On 11/12/2022 at 7:19 PM, Jtee said:

I noticed the house in Stranger Things, the one filmed in Albuquerque has a small filifera or a robusta out front, I looked back on Google maps and it wasn’t there in the past, maybe the film crew added it to give it a more California look. 

 

Oh cool! Yeah I think it was planted by the crew for the look.  If it is a California fan palm (Washingtonia Filifera) then it could survive Albuquerque's winter weather. I hope to see them grow big!

[GabrielPalms]

And then there is this windmill palm, and it is by an elementary school. This was actually the first palm that I've seen in Albuquerque. When your driving on I-40 east, you can see it a little bit over the walls of the freeway. 

[GabrielPalms]

And at this restaurant Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, there is a small windmill palm. I circled the palm because it's pretty hard to see. 

[ChrisA]

21 hours ago, GabrielPalms said:

And at this restaurant Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, there is a small windmill palm. I circled the palm because it's pretty hard to see. 

When Pappadeaux first opened they had a lot more palms, several more Trachys and some Sabals if I recall correctly. Google street view does not go that far back though. Anyone else remember what they had? 

[jwitt]

1 hour ago, ChrisA said:

When Pappadeaux first opened they had a lot more palms, several more Trachys and some Sabals if I recall correctly. Google street view does not go that far back though. Anyone else remember what they had? 

Med palms and trachies.  East exposure doesn't work here locally when on the edge of the palm zone.  

[GabrielPalms]

Here is two windmill palms decorated, they are every year. Look beautiful every year.

[NMPalmjunky]

Here is a nice palmy house that is for sale in the north valley.

[palmnut-fry]

That is a nice house esp for new construction! They:re doing all those putrid gray & charcoal boxes in my city! This is what i would consider classy!

Always wondered if there were many palms there in New Mex so this is a good compilation! Looks like New Mex missed the big freezes we endured in my neck of the woods last few winters (including NOW)! But anyway, you're much drier and higher altitude so your specimens look dif, almost chunkier. I swear that one you identify as a Trachy. is a Trithrinax sp!

Nifty info but why would Stranger Things film it all the way out there when there are tons off that kind of homes in L.A? Much less do landscaping? Does not the google street shot prove it had other palms planted b4? Anyway, it looks cool, 

Cheers🌴