Seeing so many dead palm trees in Houston. (Dallas, Austin: real estate, new house)

[OptimusPrime69]

I'm looking at real estate in and around Houston and there are so many dead palm trees in people's yards. Tis a tragedy really...... look like sad sticks in the ground, especially around people's pools. Is it the same story in Galveston? Hate to see it really... Do you think ppl will will replant and replace or is this the nail in the coffin for palms around Houston?

[Ghost Town]

There are lots of palm trees in my area.
At this point I see most of them are coming back, some of them already recovered to a large extent.
Personally I have 4 palm trees: 3 taller trees 40-45 ft and one shorter. The taller trees were trimmed 2 months ago, no signs of recovery yet. Their status is unknown. The shorter one I trimmed myself back in February and it's been growing back since late March, it's doing pretty well.

[gwarnecke]

Our new house has five palm trees in the backyard. All of them looked pretty dismal immediately after the freeze, but we had them trimmed and they all came back just fine.

[Texas Ag 93]

I have 7 palms of various varieties in my yard. Only had one die (a big one in the backyard). Had several large ones in the front come through the freeze without even turning brown.

[jfre81]

At their best, they look sad because they're not in their native environment. That's because, even in a normal winter without abnormal deep freezes, it gets too cold for them in the upper Texas coast region.

They're non-native wood roach habitats that serve no purpose other than to the flying wood roaches and to people who want to pretend they live in Florida, and out of the two I would prefer the flying wood roaches.

[elnina]

I also noticed that many seemingly dead palms are showing signs of life. Sometimes with tall palms you don't see it, yet.

My orange tree appeared to be dead. All brown branches, no leaves, no new life. It's standing there, middle of my backyard, sad, quite depressing. I thought I lost it during the deep freeze.
Yesterday, I saw tiny little green dots few inches up the bottom part of the trunk. Yesterday! End of June!
It IS alive!!
I am so glad, I didn't remove it like my neighbors right and left. They got rid of their "dead" plants by the end of May. They decided that whatever looks dead by then - must be dead.

[texas7]

Most palms came back. Most Queen Palms did not among people I know who have that type.

[nidex]

Like 3/4 of them are coming back from what I've seen. Seems most cabbage palms weren't even affected.

[OptimusPrime69]

Oh good, I'm glad to hear some are coming back. Not for nothing, but I love a palm....and Mediterranean style plants too... Italian Cypress are great. Houston isn't exactly that beautiful, so I appreciate some of the warm-weather plants it is able to sustain. Makes it feel different that say Dallas or Austin... I'm looking to move to Houston in the coming months for a job opportunity and as I was browsing real estate listings, I was just noticing all these tall, dead sticks in the ground and I was like "what even is that?" and then I realized "oh...they're dead palm trees."

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

I was just noticing all these tall, dead sticks in the ground and I was like "what even is that?" and then I realized "oh...they're dead palm trees."

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Yeah, pretty much.