Howdy from Little Elm, Texas

Rocky,

Your place is beautiful!! $3 Trachy and it looks like that? WOW!! Hope my $2 Trachy looks like that one day.

I only wish my yard could look like that.

Mark

Thank you all. The larger Trachy actually only receives morning sun. The ones I have seen here that are planted in full sun don't look as robust as the ones I have seen planted with evening shade. My house faces east so it receives some evening shade during a few of the summer months. I have also found my sabal minors planted with evening shade seem to do much better than the ones planted at the same time in full sun. I am trying to create a shady corner in my back yard so I can plant a couple of pawpaw trees. I grew up in the mountains of upper east Tennessee and remeber these trees as a kid.

As for the zone here, I work with people who swear we are just inside zone 7, but looking at what seems to be the official zone map we are clearly in 8. I do know that Waco TX is not that far away and they can easily grow palms we cannot have here. People here (me included the first couple of years) waste a lot of money at Home Depot and Lowes buying palms that are meant for houston and south of there. For example a California Fan will do well here but you can only find Mexican Fans for sale. The Mexican Fan will do great so many years but we will suddenly have that winter that kills them all. One problem here is the sudden drop with no warning. Winter before last we went from 79 degrees to 17 degrees in less than a three hour time frame.

The yucca had maybe four leaves when I bought it. It was labeled as a Great Yucca. I am not sure what it is but I have no doubt one of the leaves could go straight through a person. I didn't want to cut the leaves back but I had no choice because of the risk of seriously hurting someone.

My wife is from Colombia South America and the last time we were there I took a photo of one of the most beautiful palms I have ever seen. The photo does not do justice but if I can find it I will post it on here.

Rocky,
thanks for sharing the photos. I was especially impressed with the pindo palm. I hope mine looks that well in, oh, a decade.
I bought it at HD. As you said, they do not seem to pay attention to local climate the way locally owned nurseries do. I can only assume Tulsa got a shipment because it was in a distribution zone with you folks down there.

That's it! I'm moving to Texas!

Fabulous palms, beautiful yard.
And that Yucca! 😀

waste a lot of money at Home Depot and Lowes buying palms that are meant for houston and south of there.

Right about now, you'll hear a loud groan from all of us in Canada.

Rocky's Zone 8B and Zone 8B in Vancouver BC are seriously different because of hours of daylight/latitude.

A belated welcome aboard!
Barb

Thanks Barb. There are other palms I would like to try here but I am concerned about the wet winters we can have. This winter is unusually warm. It is now 8PM on December 23 and I have my windows open. Usually by now we have had an ice storm. I think I would trade you this palm tree climate for your Walleye fishing climate 🙂

Rocky,
Nice photos, I grew up not far from you (Aubrey). Wish I knew palms would have grown there. There were plenty of yuccas and cacti. I remember a wall of very large agaves that grew in a yard in Denton, just off of Hwy 380. A few years ago I visited a palm dealer in downtown Dallas. Do you know if he is still there?
Jim

The yucca had maybe four leaves when I bought it. It was labeled as a Great Yucca. I am not sure what it is but I have no doubt one of the leaves could go straight through a person. I didn't want to cut the leaves back but I had no choice because of the risk of seriously hurting someone.

Again...very nice. 8)

I think it could be yucca treculeana?

Would trade you this palm tree climate for your Walleye fishing climate

DONE! 😈 😆

My window's open too...frozen.
Barb