Welcome!
I have never been to Ukraine, although my sister-in-law is from Lviv, and my brother does business in Kiev and so flies there from their home in Oregon, USA, often. Hopefully I'll get tag along some year.
What is the climate like there? Is it like Odessa? What palms can you grow there?
--Erik

Hey Yuri

welcome to palms north.

Good to see you over here.

Thanks, Erik and Jim! Good to know there are people connected to Ukraine even so far away.

Erik,
All the cities you've mentioned - Lviv, Odessa, Kiev are really nice, and I'd say worth the visit, being rather different. I'd also add the Crimea to the list.
My climate is similar to Odessa, it's 1-2 degrees cooler in winter, but warmer 2-3 degrees in summer - a bit more continental as we're farther from the Black Sea. I'm in zone 7a/6b, but cold spells do occur in winter, like this year, when the mercury dipped down to -23.8 C (-11 F, I believe), and usually Kherson receives about 15" - 16" annually, and areas south of it get away on average with 10". Usual summer highs are about 86 F, and up to 104 F during the hotter spells.
My range of palms is rather modest now, I've got 2 trachies (bigger one survived this winter unprotected), washy filifera, chamaerops humilis (these two were protected with boxes), and a sabal minor which i planted out this spring only. I'm going to try the mazari palm, brahea armata and needle palm as they become bigger (they are seedlings now).
In Crimea, on the south coast you can find more tender palms, like butias, jubea, CIDP's. Trachies and waggies also grow in Odessa, and in Western Ukraine, of course, with some care.

Welcome Aboard Yuri!

Bill

Hi Yuri, glad to have you with us.

I remember seeing pics of palms around the Black Sea area (and north of that), and was amazed at the beauty there in so many places.

Your Trachy survived last winter unprotected?
Excellent!
We heard Europe generally had a terrible winter, cold and lots of snow.
7 a is a fabulous zone for growing palms, and we'll look forward to seeing all of them as they go into the ground.
I have two small brahea armata that are such a beautiful blue color, I will not keep them outdoors in winter...too nice to kill.

Looking forward to seeing your pictures!
Barb

ZDRAVSTVUY YURI,

Greetings from Oakville, but indirectly from Hungary!!!! Welcome and enjoy your stay here. Please be so kind to us to send us lots of pics on your garden, agreed? Also, if you have any exotics worth mentioning in Kherson, can I please ask you to post some pictures on them, too? I guess you guys are a bit warmer than we and probably your growing season is a couple of weeks longer, but not that much, so your results can in principle be like the next goal for us....

Thanks in advance!!!!!
Rob

Thanks everyone, you guys have an awesome forum!
It's not a lot of exotics in town, but I'm trying to grow everything that can possibly grow (and what I can put my hands on 😆 ) I'll post some pics soon, not much to see after the cold winter, but freshly planted stuff still looks good. 😉