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Originally Posted by dvdmsy
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The palm trees don't like it
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I think they might be just fine...
These three photos provide a good example of the three most common "palmy" plants commonly grown around the PNW.
The big grassy ones in the 1st pic are New Zealand Flax (
Phormium tenax). They are generally hardy to 15 F. or so, but will grow back from a slightly harder freeze. They get big, fast and are cheap enough to replace if you lose one.
The second pic is
Cordyline australis. It's also from New Zealand, and is usually sold as a "Blue Dracaena" even though that's an incorrect name. It's cheap and plentiful, seedlings are often used in as the "grassy accent" centerpiece in mixed planters and baskets. If planted in the landscape, they grow really fast (the one pictured is probably only 3 or 4 years old). They're about as hardy as the N.Z. Flax. In San Francisco, these get to be 35 foot trees, but in the northwest they get killed to the ground every 10-20 years, but they usually re-emerge due to a deep carrot-like taproot that escapes the freeze.
The last pic is
Trachycarpus fortunei, a.k.a Windmill Palm. They are from China. This is by far the most famous "cold hardy" palm, and is commonly seen planted in much of the UK and Europe, Japan, parts of S. Russia...In the U.S. it's commonly seen in Atlanta, Dallas, coastal areas around Chesapeake Bay. This palm is generally considered hardy to 5 F or a little lower.
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