Zone 7 Palm trees!!!!

[Okanagan desert-palms]

Hey guys and gals check out this site I ran into a while back for growing many different types of palms. I would like to give credit to the person who started it! http://ourworld.cs.com/hbrahea333/palms.html Simply an awsome site for us in zone denial.
John

[Jay-Admin]

Hi John, Ya that's a great site. I noticed that site a year or two ago but forgot to bookmark it. Thanks for posting the link.

Regards,
Jay

[DesertZone]

That is a very good website Very good info.

[Alchris]

Very nice Site. Too bad they don't have annual pictures of the Sabal Minor or Sabal louisiana on the web site.

Allen

[Wes North Van]

Great site!
The growth he gets out of his palms in a year is amazing. Must be the hot summers.

[desertdave]

This is an inspiring site. It has encouraged me anew to try to grow some palms here... I wonder which would survive longer here, a well protected Washingtonia filifera (I have heard they do fairly well in the Tri-Cities, Albuquerque, and other dry, cool-winter, hot-summer areas) or a well protected Trachycarpus fortunei (a bit hardier and more tolerant of a wet winter from what I have heard but also less tolerant of heat).

[DesertZone]

The Trachycarpus fortunei by far will do better then the Washingtonia filifera. That site is in Georgia and most likely on the warm side of a zone 7. I think your chance of growing either is far better then I have hear in South Central Idaho. Let us know how they do?

[desertdave]

I will try to grow both. I will protect the heck out of them esp. at first. The W. filifera would prolly be more of a challenge even if winters stay like they have for the last decade or so, winters may be just getting too wet as well as warming up. Trachy's seem to like wet-winter areas, and heck they can tolerate Vegas heat (don't like it but can tolerate it... thank goodness Boise only gets over 100 a few times a year; Vegas spends most of the summer over 100, even over 110...) In Tri-Cities, Albuquerque, etc. the winters are drier than here, so that might help the Washy's.

Yah northern Georgia is prolly 7b, I have heard Atlanta itself is 8a (partially urban heat island effect, almost certainly some that it is on high ground.) Boise in the last 15 years would key to about 7a at my house well off the river... probably good luck, as we dodged several major Arctic blasts that hit eastern Idaho and eastern Washington.