And Bisbee - minus 13C.

I wonder if the two 85 year old W. filifera's in Bisbee are doing. It may have been below 0f in some parts of town. 😡

I planning on gowing there in May/june I hope too see some form of life on the palms there. 😐

5F is pretty cold for a Saguaro! 😯

5F is pretty cold for a Saguaro! 😯

I think that saguaro... two years ago survived three very cold nights in a row, 4f, -1f, 3F I think that is what my nieghrs said they had that week. And sense then it has grown over a foot taller, they grow faster than most people think. Well maybe not in the wild?

Some of the saquaros and and other cactus froze that winter there, I think they are running out of big specimens. There was a very nice Trichocereus tersheckii in town (Sunsites) before the "big freeze" but I could not find it that summer. 😡
And they had some of the biggest golden barrels I have ever seen, but they were just about all dead. Other than the "big freeze" the coldest I've seen it there over the years (sense I've been watching) was 12f.

wonder if the two 85 year old W. filifera's in Bisbee are doing

Yeah, too bad the RVers aren't there this winter.
They could have checked.

I just got of the phone with my nieghbors in AZ and they had a low of 5f/-15C

Wow

wonder if the two 85 year old W. filifera's in Bisbee are doing

Yeah, too bad the RVers aren't there this winter.
They could have checked.

I just got of the phone with my nieghbors in AZ and they had a low of 5f/-15C

Wow

You may want too give them a mapped out plan where we want them to go next year. 😉 😆
I try this ever year with the inlaws, but they just keep going where ever they want. 😡 😆

I was also suprized how cold it can get in some places of the soutwest, I guess that's why some of those plants can deal with even our cold. 😀

how cold it can get in some places of the soutwest

Yeah, especially with elevation.

the inlaws, but they just keep going where ever they want.

You'll have to get them "into" cold hardy plants...

Just got an email from friends who live in Scottsdale AZ during our Cdn winters.
She said a few of their full-time (U.S.) neighbors are heading off to Hawaii to get away from AZ cold. :confused1:

Barb

Hard freeze warning for Nevada
10 to 25 F

Poor palms and yuccas.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=824c9db1e5b5cd06&hl=en&gl=CA&source=web

Aaron..........you'll have to collect some seed off that Saguaro!

Hard freeze warning for Nevada
10 to 25 F

Poor palms and yuccas.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=824c9db1e5b5cd06&hl=en&gl=CA&source=web

There will be some burn on the date/phoenix palms. But most everything but queens should alive. It's all up to Jay for a full report. 😉

Aaron..........you'll have to collect some seed off that Saguaro!

If I can I will, people don't like when you throw rocks at thier plants or slap them with sticks to get the seeds down. 😆

This was the summer after the "big freeze" just up the road from my place. You can see the winter burn.

Hummm....St-Georges, Utah will hit 15F tonight...will be on the edge for palms , lots of Washingtonia and Phoenix over there 😕

Ben

Here is a few official records that came from the Sunday freeze. These are all from places that are zone 8 or better, have large, long term palms growing. I could post about warmer area's, but sense this is a cold hardy forum I thought I would post about the places on the egde of the "palm zones". 😯

My property (Sunsites) 5F

Sunsites AZ 7F old record 13F 1964

Kingman AZ 11F not a record, record 9F 1963

Bisbee AZ 7F old record 18F 2005

Deming NM 5F old record 6F 1962

Hummm....St-Georges, Utah will hit 15F tonight...will be on the edge for palms , lots of Washingtonia and Phoenix over there 😕

Ben

Thanks for posting St George, UT 😀

Sunday freeze

St George UT 16F record still standing 2F

I checked climate statistics for St.George, UT at the Wikipedia:

Record low °F (°C) −11 (−24)

I checked climate statistics for St.George, UT at the Wikipedia:

Record low °F (°C) −11 (−24)

Yes...the all time record. Thanks. 🙂