Thanks! I can see I will learn a lot here. Its a great place.

I have been trying to get a couple cold hardy palms all summer from a few different places , all I got was TAKEN, never got any seeds or plants , which cost me about 158.00. would love to find a honest place where I could get a few seeds or seedling from some hardy palms , without getting taken again, but I am a little leary now sorry to say , can anyone help

it would help if I put my e-mail on here
featheredfrnds@aol.com

Welcome to the forum Feathered.

That's a real bummer. 🙁 I would send you some seed for free if i had any left. I'm sure someone on this forum can help you out.

Regards,
Jay

i'm new to this board. I live in Ohio- zone 5. i'm afraid growing in my basement is as close as I get to growing palms in the cold!!! But I sure wish I could 😀 I hope to move to a warmer climate when we retire. I guess I will just have to dream until then.

Welcome butterflybabe.

I wish we all could live in a warmer climate. 😀

Regards,
Jay

I heard it said many times before, "It sure would be nice to live in a warmer climate." Someone in zone 4 would love a zone 7, someone in zone 8 wants a zone 10. Well I'm in a zone 8 and don't mind it at all. There are times when I know I've said, even a half zone warmer would be nice. Especailly when cold temps threaten a cherished plant.

Cheers, Barrie. 🙂

I'm at the far boundary for growing palms outside...7a is about as far north as cold hardy palm growing gets. I would definitely settle for zone 8. I would love to grow Sabal palmetto's! But, I guess zone 7 beats zone 6!

I have been growing hardy palms in Crossville, Tennessee for four years now. My palms include: Sabal palmetto;trachycarpus fortunei;cycas revoluta(sago palm);washingtonia robusta;rhapidophyllum histrix. The first two years i grew only the windmill palms and the sago palms. I protected the windmills a lot. A string of christmas lights kept them warm from November to March. On the coldest nights, a cotton blanket covered them(nights with lows of 15 degrees or lower). The sagos I only covered with leaves. These sagos have amazed me. They stayed buried under the leaves and flush twice a year in the summer, once in early May and again in early August. They have done this for three years now. They look great. The trachies have grown slowly. They are about 7 feet tall altogether with about 4 feet of clear trunk. They look great, I just wish they grew faster. I have not protected these at all the last two years. I added a needle palm last year and planted it out by the road. I did not protect this one. Winter low of ten degrees only made this bad boy laugh. I also added a 15 gallon sabal palmetto on the southeast side of my house and my heating unit blows out heat on this one all winter. I then planted this year 3 washingonias around the sabal. We'll see how the washies fair here in tennessee.

Sounds ausum to me! Sabal minor grow's very slow, but my R. hystrixs' added 4-5 new fronds during their first summer. I'm going to protect all of my palms this year. I'm going to buy some Trachy's this spring, as well as some more Musa basjoo, Cacti, and I'm planning on trying a Live Oak. I know there are some specimens growing in Tennessee, most of them around the Memphis area. I may try some Sabal palmetto. I collected some seeds from St. Augustine, Florida over the summer. If you would like to see some pictures of a few of my young palms around the yard, click on this link: http://community.webshots.com/user/planesandpalmsguy

There is also some neat pictures of the area I live in, where S. minor was native over 100 years ago, before agriculture hit the region. 😀 There are some pictures of my St. Augustine, Florida trip in my picture album also.

Wats up everyone! U might know me from GW and HP&SB.
If you don't know me, I am from Chicago, and this will be my first winter overwintering:

Trahycarpus Fortunei
Sabal Minor 'McCurtain'
Musa Basjoo
Agave Americana
Agave Harvardiana
Yucca Rostrata
Yucca Thompsoniana.

I have some methods in mind for my trachy and others, Ill explain and posts pics etc. later, but would just like to say hi!

Peace
Kyle
Chicago, IL

Hi Everyone!
I am from Southern Iidaho and have had good luck growing several things. Here is a few of he plants I grow in my yard- Joshua-trees, Yucca elata, Y. Scidigera, Y. Riggda, Y. Tompsoniana, Y. Rostrata, Many deferent cacti, a few agave, and one Needle palm, etc..... It gets very cold here (below 0 F. ) every winter, but they just keep growing!

Hello everyone:

😯 (the look of Zone Denial)This is my third or fourth post, but I havn't formally introduced myself. I live in SE Wisconsin Z5b(maybe I'm the craziest of them all!).

My first interest in palms was when I was 17 years old and took a bus trip to Phoenix. I remember seeing my first palm tree in Cottonwood, AZ. By memory it was a date palm, probably a Canary Island date.

Ever since then I've been in love with palm trees, however only recently have I (been obsessed?) tried to plant or grow from seed myself. This is pretty ironic since in the 80's I lived in Phoenix and Southern California.

I currently have 3 R. Hystrix (needle palm) in the ground that I planted last Spring. We've had -6F as a low so far this winter, and with the exception of some minor leaf-tip burn, they seem to be doing well. This palm thing is an education in progress, since my first try a couple of years ago with a Needle was a disaster--got into the ground in late summer, then with absolutely NO winter protection. R.I.P. 😥

This past year, besides getting into the ground early, I'm trying semi-opaque plastic covers with drill holes for ventilation. I hope to get some pics in the next few weeks and post on the "winter protection" forum.

I've also got three musa basjoos, covered with styrafoam rose covers, also vented at the top. We'll see how they turn out.

My ultimate goal is to have a trunking palm survive (and thrive) long-term. I will probably get a T. Fortunei or a T. Takil. Is anyone familiar with the Takil? I havn't seen any mention of it in the forum.

I'm also "incubating" som s. minors, s. palmetto (free from a recent rip to FL), Butia Capitata (for container only here), Nannorhops Ritchiana (Mazari Palm) and Washingtonia Filifera (way outside chance here in Z5b)

So be incouraged you souls in Z6 and higher--Unless we get a new member from Minnesota or the Yukon, what makes it here should work for you! It's o.k. to be the guinea pig 😆

Something to consider: If we all lived in Miami, would we be this interested in palms, especially the cold-hardy variety? 😀

Welcome to the forum Estiva. 😀 Glad to have you here to share your experiences with everyone. Let us know how your needle palms fare. I also used the rose cover trick for two of my Musa Basjoo this winter. 😀

Regards,
Jay

I've been growing palms for a couple years here (indoors) and i'm wondering which palms would do best outside here. I plan on protecting them, but i'm unsure of which palms would handle the hot and humid summers and the cold and dry winters. Currently i have a 4 foot phoenix roebelini ( in a pot ), 6 trachycarpus fortunei, about 100 washingtonia robusta seedlings, a couple majesty palms, etc etc. i was thinking of a needle palm perhaps, but after reading many forums it seems that many of them are not surviving. This is scaring me away from this palm because of the high cost and overall slow growth. For now i just sink the pots in the ground in late march/early april and bring them inside to my sunporch for the winter. This results in faster growth because the palm doesn't nearly die each year and have to "recoup" it's losses from the winter season. My only experience with palms outdoors in our zone 7a/6b climate is when i got a trachycarpus from san diego, where my father lives and planted it in the backyard as an annual. It died over the winter, but to my surprise began to sprout new growth in the spring. It only grew one leaf before our dog finished the job of killing it, but i'm wondering if all palms in this area will act as a deciduous plant and die each year, or if any can adapt to this climate for an extended period of time. Any help would be a plus. Thanks