Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens: eight fabulous cold climate palms!

This week on The Horti-Culturalists, the fourth and final part in our series of videos made in the wonderful Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. And in this episode we're looking at eight fabulous cold climate palms to bring a touch of the tropics to even the chilliest of gardens! The hardiest palm we'll look at in this video can go down to -10C or 14F whilst the others will happily go down to between -7C and 0C or 19.5F to 32F. Many thanks to the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and director Tim Entwisle, for allowing us to film. And if you want to plan your trip to the gardens you can here: www.rbg.vic.gov.au/
The palms we talk about in this video are:
Chamaerops humilis - Dwarf Fan Palm
Chamaerops humilis var. argentea
Trachycarpus fortunei - Chinese Windmill Palm
Butia odorata - South American Jelly Palm
Jubaea chilensis - Chilean Wine Palm
Caryota obtusa - Giant Fishtail Palm
Brahea armata - Mexican Blue Palm
Rhopalostylis sapida - Nīkau Palm
If you'd like to see our other Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne videos you can here: • ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS ...

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Fantastic topic, loved your video !!!

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[@Salmagundiii]

Fascinating topic! There are so many other variables besides just the minimum temp when it comes to plant hardiness, especially palms. For example I (probably) lost a Trachycarpus this year, but because the freeze came very suddenly after temps up above 9-10C. (50F) I think it would have survived a similar freeze if we'd had normal (for us), colder winter weather leading up to it. It wasn't fully dormant. The overall climate of an area also makes a difference. Phoenix dactylifera are known with certainty to have survived -17C or even lower, during very infrequent freezes in the US Southwest. But that's a very dry desert climate, and temperatures just a couple days after the freezes were back above 12C during the day. With bright clear days being the norm in winter. They could never survive a temperature that low in more humid places like the UK, or even the southeastern US.

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And of course some would argue palms never go dormant...but they do slow their growth 😏

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[@slimytoad1447]

All my cordylines here in south london were trashed by the cold this past winter,i'm devastated

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they usually reshoot. Regards Stephen

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I Love this Episode ;), Can I grow Bismarckia Nobilis in Pot Permanently?

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I think it would grow too big to be a particularly long term pot plant. Regards Stephen

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@@thehorti-culturalists thanks very kindly Stephen. Cheers. John