Hi Gonz, welcome aboard.

That's one healthy palm to grow four feet in 3 years! It obviously likes your soil and microclimate on the east.
And a 7 footer...wow. 😀

Hope you'll be able to post some pictures soon.

What have your lowest temps been this winter?
70 degrees! that's quite the warm spell for January!
Barb

I think what the best choise for palm entusiast's, who is living at zone 6 or 7, is trachicarpus wagnerianus. Especially if you have wet climate. This palm is very pretty and not enough tolerant for hard freeze. I'm hear what this palm is groving at Iсeland.

Hi Gonz, welcome aboard.

That's one healthy palm to grow four feet in 3 years! It obviously likes your soil and microclimate on the east.
And a 7 footer...wow. 😀

Hope you'll be able to post some pictures soon.

What have your lowest temps been this winter?
70 degrees! that's quite the warm spell for January!
Barb

I think the lowest temp was about 12F during the ice storm the other day. A giant green ice ball for 2 days.
Hoping I do have some sort of microclimate. It gets warmer in that area with full sun until noon.

Was away from mid Oct to Jan 1st and was told below 15F 2 or 3 times during the night.
Pretty mild so far this winter.

I think I will uncover the crown for the rest of the week because of the full sun.
Need to look it over.
Suppose to be above 60f Thurs. and Fri..(days)
Nights below freezing for first three days but it should be ok.

Will clean things up and take pictures early spring.

great to here from someone in tulsa im actually in bartlesville but my businesses are in tulsa . im really excited to here the palms are doing good i dont want to wait for years for them to get big im planning on buying several 8 fot palms . have you seen the palms that are near 51 and memorial these are the ones i was speaking of the trunking ones are at least 10 ft tall and the ones i believe to be birminghams are 7 to 8foot tall

Here in Belgium we had -18°C for a couple of nights. TF, butia, jubaea and chamaerops have severe leafburn or are dead. Only trithrinax campestris survived without a scratch! 😯

Here in Belgium we had -18°C for a couple of nights. TF, butia, jubaea and chamaerops have severe leafburn or are dead. Only trithrinax campestris survived without a scratch! 😯

Really? Wow! I'll have to do some digging to see what I can find out about the species...

Has anyone else noticed extreme hardiness in T. campestris? I've not tried it, but I have heard of rumors of hardiness to -15C, maybe there is something to this...

I have a very small one in the front yard,the leaves are pretty fried but it is still solid and no spear pull so far after lows of at least 12F

here are some of the palms i was speaking of ,they looked better a couple of weeks ago before we had the ice storm but they have suvived many can anyone tell me what they are,hope the pics downloaded

more pics

OMG 😥

The wrapped one looks so good...Why didn't he wrap the others?

Will leave the ID to other folks.
Barb

http://users.skynet.be/fa950006/hiver2008-2009.html - here was described about "crush test" palms in Belgium. This palm was damaged by freeze near -15 -20 C. So, winner's are trachycarpus wagnerianus and sabal minor.

barb last winter 07 we had a really bad ice storm every tree in northeast oklahoma was either damaged or uprooted i remember driving by the palms and thinking wow they came through in great shape i drive by them almost dailey and they looked fabulous the folowing spring

I'm always impressed with the vigor and absolute rock solid performance of Sabal 'Birmingham'. Even this seedling that's just showing the first divided leaves has been untouched by a very nasty late December cold snap.

Cheers, Barrie.

Feb.04-09

great to here from someone in tulsa im actually in bartlesville but my businesses are in tulsa . im really excited to here the palms are doing good i dont want to wait for years for them to get big im planning on buying several 8 fot palms . have you seen the palms that are near 51 and memorial these are the ones i was speaking of the trunking ones are at least 10 ft tall and the ones i believe to be birminghams are 7 to 8foot tall

I remember those.....west of Fontana.
Have not seen in a while. I moved to Tulsa in fall of 1980 and remember seeing them for the first time.
Also remember the pink insulation wrapped around them back then.
Going to get a closer look at those palms this spring.

The winters has gotten milder here in Tulsa through the years so I am hoping my palms will be around for a long time.
Some of my neighbors think I am crazy.
We will see.

still dont know what they are birmingham or what anybody have any ibea