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Jacaranda is common but not as flamboyant as the Royal Poincianas which are also common. A lot of common tropical plants like the Poincianas, Ficus/Rubber Trees, Seagrapes and Scheffleras (all common zone 10 tropical landscape plants) froze back to varying degrees in the 2011 freeze (some streets were filled with Ficus benjamina trees that had completely frozen to the ground) but these plants all grow relatively quickly and should look like they did pre-2011 after a few more mild winters. Saw some traveller's palms and small tree sized plumerias back in 2010. I imagine the plumerias froze back quite a bit. Royal palms and foxtail palms are popping up everywhere too, should be a lot of giant royal palms in the Brownsville area in a few years.
When you talk about these trees frozen to the ground or froze back, do you mean they were killed and re-planted by the owner (and have since grown back quickly)? Or do you mean that they didn't die and grew back from the frozen plant?
When you talk about these trees frozen to the ground or froze back, do you mean they were killed and re-planted by the owner (and have since grown back quickly)? Or do you mean that they didn't die and grew back from the frozen plant?
Frozen to the ground means the plant froze back to it's roots and resprouted from there. F. benjamina is especially tender. Most of the other tropical trees had branch dieback while a few froze back to the main trunk (including some giant rubber trees).
Have the mangoes and other tropical fruit trees made a comeback since the 1980s freezes? I grow guavas here in San Diego, and I think they'd probably do very well in Brownsville.
Frozen to the ground means the plant froze back to it's roots and resprouted from there. F. benjamina is especially tender. Most of the other tropical trees had branch dieback while a few froze back to the main trunk (including some giant rubber trees).
I fount it amazing when streetviewing San Antonio how many Canary Island DP's looked wiped out in February of 2011(when SPI stayed at 32F for 24 hours), but by April of 2011 had green shoots coming out the top of the crown. The date of the streetview was April 2011. That February San Antonio went down to 19F, but also had two ice days in a row.
This is the street views of a diff CIDP's in San Antonio:
And finally, these are the view on Google Earth taken in April of 2012 one year later. They look completely recovered and doing well:
I think the reason for this is that temps in the US tend to rebound quickly after a cold arctic outbreak. It is how our averages end up balancing out. In the US South the temps rebound to almost summer like levels after some severe arctic outbreaks.
It would be interesting to see what has happened to CIDP's in the UK during December 2010. Considering the cool, wet winters without the summerlike rebound of temps in San Antonio, did they die from rot due to fungus after the freeze? I'm thinking FlamingGalah might be able to answer that.
I'm starting to think these massive, stately palms are very cold hardy, more so than just a palm that supposedly can only take down to 20F (zone 9a). Am just curious how cold hardy they really are.
Have the mangoes and other tropical fruit trees made a comeback since the 1980s freezes? I grow guavas here in San Diego, and I think they'd probably do very well in Brownsville.
Pretty sure they all died in the freezes of the 80s. Plenty of trees planted after that though. There's even a nursery near Brownsville that sells all sorts of exotic tropical fruits...Rivers End Nursery
Canary Island date palms survived the freezes of the 80s(low teens/high single digits) in the Houston/Galveston area. Unfortunately a lot of them are slowly dying off due to disease
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