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Originally Posted by enigma99a
That's great though. Nothing you can do about the freak 20/30 year events. But with those average lows, you have done very well. I saw some palms were in pots so you can just bring them in if something bad happened. What surprised me was the Royal Palm.
I want one too (royal palm), but I was just thinking what I can do when it's too tall to cover. Every few years or so here we can have a hard freeze down to 25.. Typically the yearly low is around 30F or slightly below. You going to try freezepruf this year?
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Yes I am going to try FreezPruf. I think that was developed here in Alabama.
You know, established Royals can probably take occasional temps in the high 20s...but with severe leaf burn. I have seen posts of several Royals growing unprotected in the Houston TX area. Of course they don't see temps as cold as here at my place.
Hey I would have really liked to have seen what the Royal would have done this year if it had started with some foliage! The protective cover I built for it collapsed due to high winds in January, while I was a away on a business trip. It and several other plants were exposed to temps in the 20s for a few nights...but everything lived.