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Here is a bigger cropped pic, the image shack nazis restrict pics to 1024xderp for some reason. What sites do you guys use?
Nice pics!!
I use Imgur, works pretty well, although some people on here seem to be living in 1999 and still have dial up as their computers can't handle a webpage of images above 1024x700
The data is what it is. At a natural growing state, both palms have the same zone 8 hardiness.
And facts speak for themselves, Sabal palmetto has survived far lower temperatures than Chamaerops humilis could, I really don't see what is so hard for you to understand about this...
Trachycarpus are a dime a dozen around here.... looking to see how Vancouver diversify its palm pallette.
You could try some of the other Trachycarpus species? Some are more tender but others are reputed to be as or even hardier than T.fortunei...
Do you see any Butia planted? You could always grow them in pots/tubs until larger so that they could be brought under cover just incase a cold snap hits, though it is easy enough to protect palms in ground too...
The McDonalds/Burger King (known as Hungry Jacks here but the same thing) carpark
Just incredible to me from my North American perspective. Your town is at the same latitude as Columbia, SC here, and the same distance inland. You won't find any of those palms growing there where the avg winter lowest temp is 16F. You have to go down into Central Florida here to see that kind of palm variety. And people wonder why I find so many issues with the winter climate of supposed "subtropical" climates in the Southeast.
So, how far south the eastern US do you have to go to get palm scenes like Coldfront shows from Australia in the Southeast? New Orleans certainly didn't look like that and neither did the Gulf Coast of AL or Savannah. So to be able to match the palm growing of inland Australia at 34S, where would you be in the Southeast? South Padre Island, TX, and Orlando, FL?
Your town is at the same latitude as Columbia, SC here, and the same distance inland. You won't find any of those palms growing there where the avg winter lowest temp is 16F.
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