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Hey everyone, I posted a topic about how my palms fared over the winter in the cold hardy palms section of this forum. http://palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3605 My needle palm is all but dead, but my dwarf palmetto lives on. I think the fact that the dwarf palmetto was so much larger than the...

Thanks for the compliments! It is in a fairly sheltered location; a row of spruce trees is protecting it from the north, and it is on a slight slope facing east but still gets wind from the west. I mulched it in November to protect its roots from the cold. It is also near a stone patio which may hel...

Hey everyone, Sorry I haven't posted in a long time; I've been bogged down with college lately. However, spring is basically here, and I'm getting that itch to try some more hardy palms again. My experience was that my Dwarf Palmetto, not my Needle Palm, turned out to be the tougher of the two. Perh...

Looks like the server that hosts the images is down. On another note, I got scared for my needle palm since it is still young and the temperature is supposed to get down to 6 degrees tonight, so I wrapped it's trunk with an old hand towel. Better than nothing, right? The needle palm is on the southe...

For a windmill palm, I wouldn't be confident enough to grow it here without protection during it's first year. I'm actually scared that I'd mess up and cause more harm than leaving them unprotected. If my experiment fails, I will definitely protect the new palms I would get. I have family that lives...

It's not those spots that I'm overly concerned about. It's more that where the frond splits to form it's palmate appearance. Here's an analogy: If the leaf were a hand, the beginning of the thumb to the knuckle is brown, from the knuckle to the tip, it's green. The brown area has caused the "th...

Okay, I pulled some pictures of my palms off of my girlfriend's facebook. In the center of the close-up picture of the needle palm, you can see the browning that has occurred. What should I do about this? I also put in some pictures of my dwarf palmettos that are literally right next to each other (...

I took pictures on my iPhone, but I can't upload them since this thing doesn't have flash. I do have some on my computer; I'll upload them soon. It's supposed to get down to 12 degrees tomorrow night, the coldest these palms will have experienced so far. Nice to meet all of you, btw. Thinking of try...

I'm about 20 miles or so west of the Chesapeake bay. From the ocean, I'd say about 80 miles if you travelled off-road directly east. The climate here is moderated by it, but not as much as it is in the counties to the east of here. A horrible week long cold snap is coming starting tomorrow. I really...

They came together in a pretty big container, I don't recall the size but it was between 10 and 20 gallons. I'd say they're around 3 feet tall. It usually doesn't get too cold in the winter here; we average highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s; old USDA map I'm borderline 6b/7a, but it rarely gets b...

Hello everyone. I have had an account here for a few months but have never actually posted anything. My name is Jim, and I am growing 3 palms in my yard. 1 needle palm and 2 dwarf palmettos. The needle palm is on the southeast side of my house, and the 2 Sabal Minors are growing next to each other i...