Lilith

Allen, I agree with you. But many people are not looking at it from the standpoint of "greenhousing" their plants like you and I do (I don't protect the palms that we are talking about in this thread as they are all 100% hardy here where I live but I do grow and protect quite a few zone 10+ palms). They are somehow thinking (and I am NOT saying that any of the folks participating in this thread are thinking this way, I am just saying you would be surprised how many folks DO think this way) that they will just plant the palm (or other plant) outside in the yard and when winter comes it will miraculously overwinter somehow. They don;t realize that more will be required than a sheet thrown over it, or even a bit of agricultural grade frostcloth in below zero temps, LOL.

As long as you are willing to take some fairly extreme measures and put effort into it you can overwinter anything anywhere. But having something planted out and simply left to its own devices year in and year out is another matter altogether.

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