Stirring the leaves of a shrub on his farm in Kyparissia, western Greece, Panos Adamopoulos spied the first soon-to-be-ripe mangoes—his share of a state experiment against climate change.
I’ve started to experiment with much more southern zoned flora in my spaces in New England now that we don’t have a winter and anything that can survive a frost or two has been doing really well. Southern England has palm trees. I want palms outside my house year round if I am going to survive these bullshit winters we now get. I know I might be introducing an invasive species but I think climate change is the far bigger worry than me and my little experiments.
As a Californian, don’t do it, palms suck. Most of them have very sharp, dangerous thorns, and they don’t provide much environmental benefits compared to a normal tree.
I’ve started to experiment with much more southern zoned flora in my spaces in New England now that we don’t have a winter and anything that can survive a frost or two has been doing really well. Southern England has palm trees. I want palms outside my house year round if I am going to survive these bullshit winters we now get. I know I might be introducing an invasive species but I think climate change is the far bigger worry than me and my little experiments.
As a Californian, don’t do it, palms suck. Most of them have very sharp, dangerous thorns, and they don’t provide much environmental benefits compared to a normal tree.
Most palms do not have thorns. This is the first time I have ever heard this claim. There is 2,600 known species.
But yes they are not shade trees.
Well the common ones in California do. I assume they would plant similar species as only a few are hardy to frosts.