Palm Trees in Atlanta (Savannah, Macon: transporting, home, buying)

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by CaliDreaming01

I think they look out of place too. Are there people who really want to plant palm trees here? I guess you could make them survive if you really are bound and determined but why??? That's probably would be a sign that person should just move to a place that naturally has palm trees and quit setting up innocent plants for a painful life and probable death.

We have three in our back yard. While I don't care for them, they have been alive for 15 years.

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

We have three in our back yard. While I don't care for them, they have been alive for 15 years.

Wow Next year they’ll be old enough to drive!

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Wow Next year they’ll be old enough to drive!

You're funny!!!! Thanks for the Monday morning chuckle!!!

[CaliDreaming01]

Yes, this thread is getting me through this cold Monday...lol

[JPD]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Wow Next year they’ll be old enough to drive!

They're already old enough to drive as long as there's a palm tree over 21 in the car.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

PS — We also do not have Spanish Moss north of the Fall Line, a fact that Hollywood moviemakers have refused to get right for generations ... and the real reason why we’ve taken over the industry. Enough is enough already!

This so annoys me when watching films that take place in the South. Cases in point:

GWTW: Tara, with the dry, almost treeless hills of SoCal in the background.

Auntie Mame: Peckerwood Plantation, "outside of Savannah", with the same SoCal hills as GWTW.

Savannah: That awful nighttime (and short-lived) soap, set in Savannah and obviously filmed in Atlanta.

Walking Dead: Oceanside community, ostensibly set somewhere around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, was filmed on clearly subtropical Jekyll Island.

And as many times as Savannah has subbed for Boston in the movies, the editors always manage to overlook the presence of palm trees in their street scenes.

[KingKanye]

Originally Posted by CaliDreaming01

quit setting up innocent plants for a painful life and probable death.

I don't mean to ask a stupid question, but can plants have a painful life if it's too cold? I never have heard this before? I do see more palm trees around Atlanta lately maybe because the climate has definitely warmed here.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Another vote for them looking out of place and ridiculous anywhere north of Macon. Truett’s Luau in Fayetteville has replaced all their palms like 3 times already because cold keeps killing them. But Chick-Fil-A has deep pockets, so ...

I suppose palmetto palms that are firmly established can survive and do well in the metro area, but there’s certainly nothing natural about them. And if you have to go out and wrap them in blankets every time there’s a deep cold snap, what’s the point?

PS — We also do not have Spanish Moss north of the Fall Line, a fact that Hollywood moviemakers have refused to get right for generations ... and the real reason why we’ve taken over the industry. Enough is enough already!

Palms were popular in Houston in the 60s & 70s, but few survived there. Even Macon is too far north for them to make sense.

[CaliDreaming01]

Originally Posted by KingKanye

I don't mean to ask a stupid question, but can plants have a painful life if it's too cold? I never have heard this before? I do see more palm trees around Atlanta lately maybe because the climate has definitely warmed here.

LOL. I was not really serious when I posted that. I don't think they can actually feel pain, but I really don't know.

[JMatl]

My neighbors 3 doors down have beautiful windmill palms in large, waist high pots. They're thriving, and I have seen them covered in snow and over the years.