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I have a few palms that are out of zone, but perhaps the most tender that has had some success has been Chamaedorea elegans, this is a zone 10 palm by most accounts. This palm is now going on its 4th winter. It gets damaged every winter, and is in one my gardens most favored micro-climate. It has received very little protection, I throw an old bath towel over it. This is not a long term palm, nonetheless it has been a fun experiment.
What palm are you trying to "push" in your zone with. Do you have a palm you know you have no right to believe it will grow, yet somehow it has stuck a round a few winters (without Herculean protections). Please post a picture and share your story.
This is a picture taken last spring, you can see some damage and some new growth.
Posted : 09/12/2005 12:22 pm
Well I know I might be crazy but as soon as spring hits I payed for 2, big takils and I bought a fully mature butia bonetti. I also have some sabal minors and some louisianas going in the ground as well. So ask that question again later next year and ill show you the results.
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Posted : 11/12/2005 11:14 pm
I would have to say my most marginal species of palm planted out in the garden is Rhapis excelsa. I planted a 1 gallon specimen in 2001 and it has thrived since then. I have it growing in a west facing L-cove very close to the house. There is also a large tree fern growing beside it. Last Winter and the one before I just layed a piece of bubble plastic over top of it in the cold snap. I have a large clump of ginger growing beside it that looks as green as it did in the Summer. I once had a Rhapis survive for 5 years in the garden, but it died from lack of Summer irrigation when I went away on holidays. The poor little palm dried up. Joe
Growing palms and other exotic plants here in the Southern Gulf Islands.
Posted : 12/12/2005 3:49 pm
Would be either my brahea armata (new this winter) or chamaedorea microspadix.
My 3 chamaedorea microspadix survived last winter with very little protection. My low was -6.9C. Not sure what that is in F but it is around 18 to 20 I believe.
I also had a trachycarpus latisectus and jubaea chilensis seedlings survive outside unprotected but close to the house under a soffit.
Wes North Vancouver Zone 8b/9a
Keats Island BC Zone 8a
Palm Springs CA Zone 9b/10a
Posted : 14/12/2005 12:22 am
Wes, -6.9 C. is equal to approx. 19.5 F. Cheers, Joe
Growing palms and other exotic plants here in the Southern Gulf Islands.
Posted : 14/12/2005 12:55 am
