I just want to follow up to this by mentioning (only because many don't know), sago palms are poisonous to cats and dogs. I had to rip up about 6 in my yard because my dog wouldn't stay away. If I remember correctly, they can cause liver failure...but I don't remember for sure. I believe they might also be poisonous to humans too, but only when digested. So make sure you wear gloves and wash your hands. :)

Garland ... wait before you wack it down .... when I first started planting cold hardy palms I did'nt know anything ... I planted a 4 foot sabal palmetto, on the north side of my house, in the shade, no protection and it totally died off in the winter but by the next July it started to push new fronds out ... I tried to transplant in a micro climate but the shock killed it off in the fall .... I didn't even know how to plant a palm, I planted a good half foot of the trunk below ground ... I did everything you could possibly do wrong for a palm that is not even rated for zone 7 and the poor thing still tried to make a come back ..... even my male Bull Terrier helped kill it off as his morning toilet ... it still tried to survive .... good luck.

Fer- well it's certainly not looking good, however, here in NE GA we also hit single digits (2 degrees at one point) and all of my palms were affected in one way or another. I had one windmill that pulled but has bounced back big time. I used a 50/50 mixture of water & hydrogen peroxide.

The growing tip, called a crownshaft, appears intact in these plants and therefore, recovery is likely. No palm is especially fast-growing, so don't expect miracles, that is, unless you understand that life itself is indeed a miracle. BTW, I just got back from 20 days in SW Florida. Within a week, not one, not two, but three separate storm events occurred within mere miles of where I was domiciled, each one of which produced twisters. In particular, last Friday's storm, which BTW dropped 5 inches of rain in two hours(!) came right across the very location I was at. In truth, with that kind of rainfall, an observer would never see a twister until it was far too late. +_oM