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Originally Posted by midiwiz
No idea why you felt this needed this rant....however, it lacks all depth of understanding. TV covers 3 counties, and those areas are split between zones. For example my house is all of 1 block from the warmer zone. My foxtails are absolutely fine and having zero issues as we find the other ones heavy maintenance and quite frankly a royal pain in the ***. We have had palms at our other houses and have watched all of these varieties... they all differ in care and ability to handle the environment.
Just because you wouldn't doesn't mean you need to rant on everyone else's wishes, or are you the guy that's always flipping me off in the roundabouts???
maybe when TV gets off their behind and trims these palms with "skirts" the way they should be, then you can rant.... until then blah
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Wow.
1st off.. QUEEN PALMS only die here when they are very small. Not a good zone for an outdoor queen palm nursery. They handle our winters fine here. In the 80s we had 2-100 year freezes and lost less than 5% of our queens. I have posted the reasons why people are losing queens, this isn't that post.
Hint: if your queens are alot of maint. , you are maintaining them WRONG, and probably heading for a dead queen that someone will tell you the cold killed.
If you have foxtails already, good luck. Weather is a tricky thing, but sooner or later the harder freezes show up.
You are NOT in a different zone. You are in 9A, granted the south end of that zone is a little warmer than the north, but not by much. Even if you are in zone 9B, my post still stands as true.
Everyone else's wishes? Mine are the same, I have wished for 40 years foxtails ( and many other tropicals) would live here long term.
Robis are SUB tropicals. We do lose a higher % than queen palms in hard freezes. I spent many years talking people out of planting them after seeing what happened in the 80s. Finally decided they are too pretty to not use, and always small enough to replace easily. Crotons the same.
I don't flip people off. Ever.
If a lot of people flip you off on traffic circles though, the problem might be you.