Hi Barb,

yes those leaves sure do moderate the temperature........when dry. If they get too wet then there are other issues. 😥

Hi Andy,

your colder than me so far this 'winter'. Our daytime highs have always hit at least 32F so far. This winter so far is like last year.....very warm. December is 5F above 'normal' so far. I kept the Trachy exposed to sun as long as I could but I had to protect it since we were forecasted to get many, many days of RAIN. I was afaid that all the wet and night below freezing would be too much. Lack of daylight does not seem to impact palms for some reason.....as long as the roots are 'cold'. The only palm which I have difficulties protecting is Sabal..........They always brown out on me even though they are green which I remove the protection.

I have another question for you Andy.........in 2010 when you had that 2 week cold spell........did Fatsia die to the ground? I'm trying to figure out which marginal plants survived and which plants died. I recently purchased a few 'hardy' Scheffleras and a couple 'hardy' Metapanex plants. How hardy are these???

Ooops. nearly missed this. Tim I had two Fatsia... Fatsia Polycarpa and Fatsia Japonica. F Japonica survived with little damage. F Polycarpa ( the more beautiful species IMO) appeared to be ok but suddenly died on me in September '11 nine months later from that freeze :scratch: Cannot for the life of me get Metapanax Delavayi over here. you may need to protect this plant as its considered a zone 8a plant.

What Scheffleras did you buy? pics please of your booty 😀

Hi Andy

I received S. delaveyi, taiwaniana, and a species from northern Vietnam at 2,150m sold bt Far Reaches Nursery. I was hoping your Fatsia was damaged after the 2010 cold spell. As for Metapanex I picked up delaveyi and davidii.

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Only the leaves outside the protection got burnt....overall the palm looks good.

Tim that came out mint this year..... Good job!

Well done, Tim, looks perfect!

Araucaria looks good too.

Barb

I feel left out! still have all mine with cages still around, but making a quick trip to Maryland so don't want to unwrap and have weather forecast be wrong and me away....They will wait till next week when I get back.

Encouraging to see everybody's palms look so good after what seems to be a longer than usual winter.

Better safe than sorry if you're going away, Scott.

If you were home, we'd say "yank 'em, that's enough" 😆 😆

Have a good trip.
Barb

Nice Tim

Quite the friendly winter,at the rate the temp goes up over
the next few weeks,plants should have a 6 week jump over last year!

A friendly winter? I disagree really. Thats all am going to say for now.

Tim, good job!

Winter is still here in northern Croatia and most of Europe. The end of March and it is almost 20 cm snow outside 🙁 Still waiting for warm Spring.

Tim Nainital after winter looks great invented 're good protection 😀

Good result Tim, you did have any heat for that Trachy ? I know that you don t really need where you are.

Don t worry Henoh, you are not alone, still at leat 30 cm here north of Montreal, plus snow bank of 3-4 feets. But its melting quite fast now, days between +6 to +8c and night near freezing point. We are finally in the normal 😀 .

Ben

Same here Beny, but we didnt quite have a winter like you did. Toronto got more snow then I did up here....

Beautiful palm Tim-nice to see it back in business!

Very nice looking palm, came through winter great.

Wow it came through perfect! Good work!