fredo76620

Here in France, USDA zone doesn't looks like your's.

I am located on the same latitude as South Canada(50° north) .

So the winter temps are not very low. Usually, it goes down to 30/15 °F in the night during a week or two. But the temps are low (35/50 °F) from late october to march.
In the summer, we don't have heat, but an average of 65/80 °F from mid may to mid september.

It rains a lot from october to march.

As you can see it's not the same conditions that you have in South states of the USA.

The growing period is quite short (may to september) and i think that an orinoco may be injured by the cold damped soil we have here in winter.

For exemple, the washingtonia and phoenix canariensis have grown for 2/3 years in my garden before they die by rot.

I know that Orinocos are drougth résistants, but are they cold wet soil resistant?

Sorry for my bad English.