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I never posted pics of an Areca palm growing in Columbia. I was talking the Queen palms etc. I should have clarified "except the Robusta", which btw are marginally hardy in Columbia. The pics from Columbia were most likely filibusta, more cold hardy than Robusta.
I never posted pics of an Areca palm growing in Columbia. I was talking the Queen palms etc. I should have clarified "except the Robusta", which btw are marginally hardy in Columbia. The pics from Columbia were most likely filibusta, more cold hardy than Robusta.
Who cares about palms? Large trees are what I'm interested in.
Who cares about palms? Large trees are what I'm interested in.
The title of the thread is "palm" not "large trees". I think a thead about large trees would be cool, but then we might be converting this into a garden forum instead of weather. We would have to keep it large trees related to weather somehow. I do like large deciduous trees as well.
I love the American Chestnut, Ash, and the America Elm. Chestnut and Elm I'm hoping will make a comeback someday. They were amazing in the forests of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Also, I really like long leaf pines. I wish they were vastly replanted all over the Southeast.
I never posted pics of an Areca palm growing in Columbia. I was talking the Queen palms etc. I should have clarified "except the Robusta", which btw are marginally hardy in Columbia. The pics from Columbia were most likely filibusta, more cold hardy than Robusta.
There are plenty of queen palms in New Orleans, I'm not sure why you didn't see them.
Plus, Washingtonia and Phoenix palms are everywhere along the AL coast:
I asked a few people from the Southeast on the gardening forum about these palms in Riverland, AU. Turns out Dypsis lutescens died in Brunswick, GA. Many of those palms growing there need to be south of Orlando, FL here.
34 lat in Australia equals 28 lat in the US. Though I doubt 28 latitude in Texas can grow them either.
Queen Palms are found all over S. Lousiana and southeast Texas...
Dypsis lutescens is less cold hardy than a royal palm...find them in the warmer parts of S. Texas and central Florida.
What is so surprising about Australia have less extreme temperatures than N. America? Lol
Australia is not what is surprising, it is the deviation from averages here that every winter seems to re-shock me for some reason lol. Every winter you see the purple anomalies over North America. Renmark AU has an avg July low of 37, colder than Charleston, SC, yet it seems to drop only maybe 10F from its avg low or why else would Queen Palms be all over the place.
Australia is not the exception in humid subtropical climates. I think North America is and east Asia.
Australia vs US in a palm battle and Australia wins hands down.
Very few Sabals were lost in the Southeast in the 80's, but the Med Fan palm was wiped out in places like Myrtle Beach, etc.
Sabal honestly never ceases to impress me, and this a palm whose native range extends into the tropics. I know you find them ugly, but I love how they look in their natural state with a full crown and a long smooth trunk. I hate the hurricane cut look, it makes them look sickly.
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Savannah, Georgia (for example) has lots of very old & mature Sabal palmetto palms, these survived 3F/-16C in 1985, as well as other cold spells. You only need to look at where there are mature ones growing & take a look at the record lows they have taken. Chamaerops humilis are only safe down to around 14F/-10C & 11F/-12C at a push...
Chamaerops humilis really must be a zone 8b palm then. All this time I thought it was on par with Sabal palmetto & Butia odorata.
Sabal palmetto is incredibly tough though. Most palms wouldn't survive being stripped of their crown and root mass and thrown to the side while waiting to be bought. And many of them end up planted hundreds of miles away in a different climate.
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