Palmy Portland

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri May 16, 2014 10:57 pm

I grew up in Portland, Oregon, a palmy city despite being at 46 oN latitude.

This cell phone snapshot from today is of a McDonalds drive-through:

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drterdal/14200632945" title="portland scenes by Erik Terdal, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5152/142 ... 9bc3_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="portland scenes"></a>

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat May 17, 2014 11:46 am

So nice to see people get the hang of planted palms at this--and higher--latitudes.

Trachies look good despite the worse than usual winter.
Nice pic.

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat May 17, 2014 12:04 pm

Tarchycarpus are all over the place.
Not a terrible winter here; low for winter was +12 oF, with a few days below freezing, back in early December. No big deal for a windmill palm and they are flowering all over the city.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat May 17, 2014 12:51 pm

I'd give my eye teeth for that type of winter.

Trachies would be gorgeous in Vancouver too at this time of year.
They're planted all over the beach at English Bay.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat May 17, 2014 10:13 pm

lucky1 wrote:I'd give my eye teeth for that type of winter.

Barb

eye teeth are freaky.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun May 18, 2014 2:08 pm

Worth the trade, Aaron.