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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by Asagi
Phoenix has millions of palms?
As for the "doum palm", it might take 22F in a very warm subtropical climate like Phoenix. No chance in England and probably won't like New Zealand either.
Funny thing is we haven't even gotten that cold since 1971
Funny thing is we haven't even gotten that cold since 1971
Yep, the palm is pretty much a 9b/10a palm that might survive a very rare dip or two into the low 20s. Not for areas that get a hard freeze every year. I'm fully aware of how mild Phoenix is...I was originally surprised that another poster would even compare Phoenix and Dallas.
In the case it does, it's a shame that it doesn't adorns parks, lanes and gardens in those regions, because I find it very aesthetic.
It does grow in the UK as well as northern France. They are very slow growing & so quite expensive, that's one of the reasosn why they are not widely planted, though there are a few mature specimens in England...
I'm finding that Dwarf Cavendish seem to follow the 15C rule - as long as the temperature rises above 15C, they will push out some growth. That means about 9 months of reliable growth, which bodes well for about 15 I'm planting in a particularly sunny, frost free spot with springs, that I have [also a problem area] .I have a couple of Misi Luki as well, and about 100 Basjoo, so the area should be looking good in about a year or so.
The old banana patch has got to go - it's encroaching on a bunch of citrus, which are now seeing no sun for about two months, and very damp conditions. Surprisingly that doesn't seem to have affected cropping though.
The Canary Islands grow in heavy large scale the Musa Acuminata (native from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc purely tropical climates) and they also grow in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
Wonder if they will grow in a protected spot in the south coast of Spain like Cádiz or Málaga? Or maybe they need at least climates with average winter highs above +20ºC?
The Canary Islands grow in heavy large scale the Musa Acuminata (native from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc purely tropical climates) and they also grow in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
Wonder if they will grow in a protected spot in the south coast of Spain like Cádiz or Málaga? Or maybe they need at least climates with average winter highs above +20ºC?
Possibly -worth a try. There must be plenty of regular eating bananas grown in Spain.
Guajara has posted some great photos from the Canaries, showing banana plantations.
Possibly -worth a try. There must be plenty of regular eating bananas grown in Spain.
Guajara has posted some great photos from the Canaries, showing banana plantations.
Yes, you find then even up to 41N in Barcelona. The yard of my old school has various banana trees, I remember when we used to throw bananas at us. we also had a loquat tree, a couple of olives, oranges, cidp, syagrus... good old times.
The banana also had some strange big fruit which had liquid on it, something purple and big under the banana fruits.
Probably it's not the same specific species as the Canarian one but it's fully edible and becomes yellow when mature.
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we also had a loquat tree, a couple of olives, oranges, cidp, syagrus... good old times. 