All my palms and bananas are wrapped or boxed except my large Sabal minor. We are at -4c this evening and going as low as -7c. I added a layer of foam board insulation to my newest planted (Sabal palmetto, June), youngest (Washingtonia filifera, 1.9 years old from seed) and my most irreplaceable (Brahea armata 8 years old from seed ).
Bananas already insulated, as well as the unheated T fortunei and Medjool date.

I will sleep well already knowing some of the thermocubed bulbs won't have to work as much or as long.

Have a good one, everyone.

Oh and throwing a thick sheet over a palm for a night or two is very effective in my experience. I used a large painters drop cloth of thick canvas-like material. Weighed down the edges with a few rocks, for the wind.

Cheers!

Mike

I was looking at your averages...mostly because I thought you were full of #### 😉

saying it rarely gets below 20F there..I was really shocked to see the coldest average
for Jan is 26F/40F! I can't believe you guys are that freaking mild in winter!!!!!

I think we are probably close to your low for an average high in January!

Anyway...I get it,I see why they call it the "Garden State" now-that is amazing! 😉

lmao, right see i don't friggin' lie...we don't friggin lie in new jersey, Fugheddabout it!

Sid, take a deep breathe. Then make a pot of gluhwein. 😆
Your Trachies will be fine. In city, planted close to house, facing East.
If it will make you feel better, toss an old bed sheet over them overnight, and place a gallon plastic jug of hot water under the sheet near the trunk.
Then have another mug of gluhwein. 😀

ah Gluhwein...I went to univeristy in Strasbourg France, plenty of Gluhwein!!!! i put a poncho on them and jumped in the hot tub...now I am drinking some red wine myself....the trachies will fare fine, i'm more concerned about ho wi am gettign out of the hot tub since my shorts blew away in the 20 mph sustained winds
🙁 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

All my palms and bananas are wrapped or boxed except my large Sabal minor. We are at -4c this evening and going as low as -7c. I added a layer of foam board insulation to my newest planted (Sabal palmetto, June), youngest (Washingtonia filifera, 1.9 years old from seed) and my most irreplaceable (Brahea armata 8 years old from seed ).
Bananas already insulated, as well as the unheated T fortunei and Medjool date.

I will sleep well already knowing some of the thermocubed bulbs won't have to work as much or as long.

Have a good one, everyone.

Oh and throwing a thick sheet over a palm for a night or two is very effective in my experience. I used a large painters drop cloth of thick canvas-like material. Weighed down the edges with a few rocks, for the wind.

Cheers!

Good luck Adam in Beamsville....hang tough dude

Adam,
Can understand how relaxed you feel now that everything's protected.
Especially that B.armata :love10:

Yup, throwing a blanket/sheet/whatever over a plant has worked for me lots of times...until they get too large.

ho wi am gettign out of the hot tub since my shorts blew away in the 20 mph sustained winds

ho wi am? 😆 😆 😆 :drunken: good gluhwein!
You are soooo funny, Michael.

Barb

Adam,
Can understand how relaxed you feel now that everything's protected.
Especially that B.armata :love10:

Yup, throwing a blanket/sheet/whatever over a plant has worked for me lots of times...until they get too large.

ho wi am gettign out of the hot tub since my shorts blew away in the 20 mph sustained winds

ho wi am? 😆 😆 😆 :drunken: good gluhwein!
You are soooo funny, Michael.

Barb

Ja, jaja es schmeckt mir sehr gut mein Gluhwein....xoxoxo Barb

moi aussi :bootyshake:

😆

moi aussi :bootyshake:

😆

lol, stay warm Barb!

Heck, that isn't even cold! lol On a serious note I can speak from recent experience.

Had to go out of town a couple of weeks ago. Have two Windmills palms in the ground (2 and 3 years) no protection up at all at the time. Wasn't worried about them because forecast showed lows when gone only to around 20 F....well they were wrong, one night temp dropped to 9 F

BOTH windmills sailed through that cold, but both are protected now.

Heck, that isn't even cold! lol On a serious note I can speak from recent experience.

Had to go out of town a couple of weeks ago. Have two Windmills palms in the ground (2 and 3 years) no protection up at all at the time. Wasn't worried about them because forecast showed lows when gone only to around 20 F....well they were wrong, one night temp dropped to 9 F

BOTH windmills sailed through that cold, but both are protected now.

We're babies about the cold here in NJ.....It's 26 F now and it feels like -100 F, especially with the 35 mph winds...ugh! We're beahch people!!!!! HELP supposed to go to 20 F tonight....that's insane!

Too funny! I wouldn't even buy a winter coat if it only got to 20 deg.

On a sad note. I also had left out my potted Mexican Fan Palms, (5) CIDP(2) and a European fan palm in that 9deg cold. May have lost the Mexicans, CIDP took a hit as well but I know they are tough and should come back. European sailed through just fine.

Mike

You are fortunate to live in such a garden state!

Only problem is...you have no excuse not to grow almost everything-lol

Bill was telling me about all the huge bamboo and Trachys and what not down there-
makes me wish I would have tried a garden like this in St.Louis when I lived there....
even my dwarf Cavendish were getting 6-7' tall in a summer there.

Too funny! I wouldn't even buy a winter coat if it only got to 20 deg.

On a sad note. I also had left out my potted Mexican Fan Palms, (5) CIDP(2) and a European fan palm in that 9deg cold. May have lost the Mexicans, CIDP took a hit as well but I know they are tough and should come back. European sailed through just fine.

i must say I really don't wear coats either and I still jog in shorts and a nice LL Bean fleece jacket. Good luck with all your stuff!

Mike

You are fortunate to live in such a garden state!

Only problem is...you have no excuse not to grow almost everything-lol

Bill was telling me about all the huge bamboo and Trachys and what not down there-
makes me wish I would have tried a garden like this in St.Louis when I lived there....
even my dwarf Cavendish were getting 6-7' tall in a summer there.

we are fortunate to have a long growing season basically from march through november...even longer at our shore place in north cape may along the south jersey coast on the bayside...most people do not protect anything but their babnanas down there.....here are a few pics i just took (of neighboring gardens) this weekend at the shore house....We just bought the place last spring so we have a lot of growing to get started!!!!

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didn't know these Passiflora vines grew here and are root hardy. they are all over empty beach and lots

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Wow, that s a nice Washy Mike... 😀 ,,,

Ben