my pygmy palms got hit hard this year by the frost, some more then others, but they are starting to recover slowly. i think every winter since we have put them in, they always get some frost damage and it does take a while for new fronds to replace the damaged ones. since the damage was so extensive this time, i do not think they will look great again until next year (if we do not have another hard freeze). i know some people in our neighborhood have already ripped out their damaged pygmy palms and have replaced them with new ones. i am going to be patient and just wait it out since our palms are pretty large now. give them a little more time. how established were your palms before the freeze?

i forgot to mention .... i had a lot of browning in spring... especially on variegated plants... and also noted on all p. thunbergiana .... my theory is that it was very mild last fall .... read the warm [relatively speaking as to prior years] ... but not hot ... for an extra month .. thru almost Xmas .... then immediately below zero .... i like to water real late in the season .. but it always becomes a carp shoot as to blowing out the irrigation pipes before they freeze solid ... so they may have gone into winter a bit drier than i preferred ... and i wonder if they were not properly hardened off before the sub zero weather??? or so it goes.. ken

Speaking of Robustas, if you're unsure what a washingtonia robusta is or what one looks like, there are a few pics of taller ones in the posting titled "really tall robustas". Good pics, expecially the third one down, but I'd say its a pretty safe bet yours are not that tall.

My Stuart yard looks better than the long deepfreeze from last year. Jakfruit has some freeze burned leaves at the top. All the bananas have leaf damage...even the ice cream banana (blue java) which is supposed to be cold hardy. Got to harvest a bunch of Gros Michel bananas just before the freeze. Delicious! Rollinia got some burned branch ends that I didn't get covered up and the little Akee made it but not perfect. Of course the soursop has some damage and is losing most of its leaves now. I had to cut a lot of branches back after last year. Interesting that every different plant, from poinciana to soursop had a different reaction to the cold. I have 3 varieties of avocado with 2 of them now holding fruit (Choquette, Monroe). The cold made the fruit drop off. So its raining avocados every day starting Sunday. Sapodilla dropped fruit too. I love it when my fruit trees hold the fruit on them so I can enjoy over a long season. Papayas have a lot of dead leaves but the center is leafing out green. Don't know how the fruit fared. The best fruit I have ever had from my really tall red one. I have two seedlings in pots from Puerto Rico, a malayan apple and a caimito. The caimito seems very sensitve to the cold but not the malayan apple. I am surprised at that. Most of the citrus are dying (I have about 20+) from citrus greening. Its an epidemic here in Martin county, FL. Has anyone eaten any of the following: kwai muk, maprang, abiu, salak palm. (tried to grow from seed)Care to comment? Some stuff isn't worth the trouble, you know.