It's been fairly mild here on the west coast in the last few weeks, however we did get our first blast of snow near the end of November. It melted within 3 days and back to normal highs of 9C. Over Christmas it got colder again with lows of -6C. The Trachy in the palm hut is doing really well and the Trachy without the hut is still covered with a large orange plastic garbage bag to keep it dry. Today I went out to check underneath and the leaves of course were a bit frosted up. Until our freezing passes I decided to open it up, wrap the center spear in burlap and then wrap the rest of it up in burlap only a couple of layers, not much. I put two garbage bags over it this time, so I'm sure this will be fine until the warmer temps hit again.
Here's a link to the pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/hilashes/De ... directlink
Here's wishing everyone a happy new year and all the best to you and yours! And our PALMS!
Heidi
