Hardy palms and unseasonably cold weather

[Cambium]

Ha, I read the first sentence in the opening post and was about to check some stats on how the weather has been past few weeks. Then I realized it was from January 2014. lol

Originally Posted by Tennesseestorm

Well here we go again, it has been a very long time since we have had temperatures this cold in Tennessee... since 1996 to be exact!

Then read this..

It has not been this cold here in 18 years, so hopefully we can go another 18 years without weather this cold again.

Guess we didn't. Very next winter was even worse. I gave up on tropical plants. Pointless

[Infamous92]

Guess I lucked up, my Windmill Palm just survived its first winter in the ground with no damage at all, but it was a mild winter.

[muslim12]

I was surprised overall at how light the damage was here. No dead windmills,needles or sabal minors of course. Some sagos survived, most Pindo palms I saw survived. Sabal palmetto were 50/50.

My fig died to the root in 2014 and 2015 but that caused explosive growth with some trunks growing 6 feet in a matter of months after dieing to the root in 2015! Crazy, fig is pretty big now, with more trunks, one new trunk that sprouted up in March is now 3 feet tall. The old trunks from last year are slowly putting on height. By slowly I mean a few inches already this past month!

[muslim12]

Originally Posted by Infamous92

Guess I lucked up, my Windmill Palm just survived its first winter in the ground with no damage at all, but it was a mild winter.

Nice,hopefully the past 3 winters are just flukes, and the climate has truly warmed ( optimistic) Last thing we want is more extreme cold in 2017, well cambium wants that lol!