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Old 07-19-2007, 04:53 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Default Re: Clean Kansas Palm

Here you go Bob, this is the USDA zone map USDA Zone map
For our zone we have several palms to look at:
Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Needle palm)
Sabal minor (and possibly S.louisiana, S.Birmingham, and S. McCurtain County)
Trachycarpus fortunei (been used as a die-back perennial in our zone, fast grower)

Grated I don't have any yet, but looking at them hard right now.
Here is a link to a guy in zone 5 with a Washingtonia robusta in the ground, but it gets a mini hot house over the winter: W.robusta
I would love to try this, but want to move to a house with a south facing backyard first.
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