Most of my Chinese windmill palms took damage during the freeze. I think all (about 50) of my washington palm seedlings were killed during it. They were around 2-3 years old. I've noticed several other, slightly older Washington palms that appear to be dead around the neighborhood as well. Some of the sagos were heavily damaged, of varying ages and sizes. A few may have been killed. Florida and Texas Sabals, Mediterranean fan palm, Pindo palms, and Chinese Windmill palms were untouched. Wagner's windmill palm took some damage (slight leaf discoloration) but seems to be chugging along fine.

chinese fan fine, picabeen king, burnt but covered, triangles burnt but covered nine years in a row, red spear toast, queens fine but burnt a bit, lady palms fine, what surprises me is this bamboo palm i have, perfect!

Foxtails are fine, Adonidia palms don't look so good. I am hoping for the best.

Adonidias are strange. Ones 10 feet apart are dead or perfect. Foxtails definitely got bit hard most everywhere. i have a very burned spindle palm and one that looks good. King palm looks great. Royals are brown

I also have a few that made it that i am very pleasantly surprised about. Sugar palm (arenga pinnata or engleri--not sure if its a dwarf) seems to have made it.

dypsis mahajanga looks good--its a clustering type up against the house. Only one frond is brown. its listed as a 10A.

Chambeyronia macrocarpa--tiny jury is still out if this will make it. i did have it wrapped in rope light to give it a few degrees.

king palm, so far so good.

phoenix robellinis all look a little burned. silver dates, dates, and canarys all look unphased. All the florida natives look fine.

Pychtosperma Schefferi in my yard looks amazing. Its up against a fence and not even bronzed. its listed as a 10B plant.

Traveler palms look a bad and so do the white birds of paradise.

otherwise st. pete looks like winter. mangos, rubber trees, avocados, schefflera all hit especially hard. Interestingly, the maples turned real fall red instead of just browing and falling.

wallisadi, I have a bamboo palm, Chaemadorea microspadix, that is untouched by this last cold. It's the one with red fruit. My other bamboo palm, probably a "FL hybrid" is dead to the ground but it will come back. my last picabeen palm looks sad, but it has pulled through before. My last foxtail is done, I'm afraid.... I should know better.

john

my three coconut trees looked pretty awful and still look pretty bad.

Went for a jog and interestingly enough some of the other coconuts in the neighborhood look like mine, and others look fine. Not sure what the difference could be, maybe watering?

Hi
I brought the delicate understory palms into the house.
Yard palms seem okay but around the neighborhood the coconuts seem the most damaged.
One that surprised me is a Panama palm (Carlodovica) Dead as a doornail. I keep it in a pot in the shadehouse and forgot about it. Only thing completely dead so far anyway.
All my tree grown orchids seem okay so far . I started a "hedge" of Vandas between two queen palms though I covered these with frost cloth.
They aborted flowers ,but seem undamaged .(Crossing fingers and praying it doesn't happen again/!!! lol gary

some fron burn on my queens but not much...pygmy date has a lot of frond damage. mature queeens had no damage...cabbage, of course does not wither nor my washy.

I have a chinese fan palm that I think died. I don't know if it will come back. All the leaves died and the middle (new growth) was mushy and fell out. I'm going to leave it alone and see if it comes back. When my Adonidia died, it was mushy aroun the new growth.

Hardiest Palm is the Cocos Plumosis or Queen Palm, the only one, we ever plant, all others suffer from frost or freeze..in bush type the fan palm takes it well..

My 3 pymgy palms were hit really hard. I hope they all recover but I am not so sure..

I have a Canary Island date palm, it was untouched
By end of last year, I planted a Chinese fan palm, and a the leaves became yellow but it still looks good.
I also planted a Pindo palm... very small though... and it looks as if nothing has happened.
The queens are looking very good too.

My neighbors that had Christmas and Foxtail palms they look dead now even though they were covered.

Regards

looks like one of my pygmys is dead...I pulled the spear and it came right out...the other was firm as heck. It never got below 25 here...but we had over a dozen days of nights in the 20's.

It may be bad here, but I wouldn't want to be in these folks' neck-of-the-woods

Me either!

Well, one of my two coconut trees doesn't seem to be recovering.While although it still has 3-4 green fronds, the new growth coming through is about70% brown, 30% green. I am really really sad at this point. It's about 15 feet high. The other one is about 25 ft high, so i haven't been able to see the new growth.

I guess I'll wait and make sure it doesn't come back before removing it.

From reading i've done it seems like there's nothing else i can do at this point. :(

I am no expert, but doesn't the 30 % green mean that there is some hope ? Perhaps the newest growth will continue to improve ? What do you think ?

Well, one of my two coconut trees doesn't seem to be recovering.While although it still has 3-4 green fronds, the new growth coming through is about70% brown, 30% green.

I am no expert, but doesn't the 30 % green mean that there is some hope ? Perhaps the newest growth will continue to improve ? What do you think ?

I'm in Pinellas and my Adinodia's are toast, same as the first post above, 70% brown, 30% green. PROBLEM, the green is distal, the brown is proximal the palm heart...clearly NOT a good sign. NEVER had frost here so this is a tell-tale that Adinodia's are tender, all the other palms survived....My neighbor lost his too, and his coconut palm on the waters edge that I've been bragging about for a decade since they're not supposed to be able to grow north of the main channel of Tampa Bay.

Tom

Oh, I see. Our Adonidia's are brown at the tip and green emerging so I'm watchful waiting to see if they rebound.

Think my foxtail is toast. All fronds dead and broken. Pulled a few and a few came right off, but most were tight. No new growth, but there is some green still left on the trunk. I've been thinking about going ahead and digging it up........is it still too early?

I saw the spear (the new leaf) from my coconuts die and fall off. The tree is green and healthy but it is toast. Once that spear dies, there will be no more new leaves. Too bad - - So sad.

I'm actually feeling better about my palms. The Adonidia's I had that were small 2-3 ft and had three trees growing together... I lost 2 on each group, but one in each is coming back. My Adonidia's that are 8-9 ft...coming back. I lost 3 alexandria's that were planted Dec 21st. All my Areca's survived, but just lost 1 or 2 small trunks. I have 3 Spindles that are ok. My Coconuts....I thought one was gone, so I cut of all fronds and was trying to dig it up, but it was to hard to dig so I left it. Well, to my surprise there is a NEW green frond coming up...I think it's gonna be ok. I did spray all w/ copper fungicide, but not until April. I do have one other Coconut that I'm watching. This was my 1st exp. w/ freeze damaged palms. On the coconuts, I pulled out the rottrn middle fronds and that was why I thought they were gone.

Question about my triple Foxtail.

It was planted at the beginning of last Dec., when it was still in the 80s. I protected it from the cold and all three trunk made it, of course with hefty leaf damage. Well, 2 of the 3 have already pushed out a frond and a 2nd is on the way. The 3rd trunk though has done nothing, but it is still green, hasn't snapped, or wants to budge no matter how hard I tug.

The tree was field grown, so I'm guessing it is finally letting it's roots take off and is limiting new frond growth.

Anybody else know what it may be doing?

nothing?