Dypsis lutescens. Image – Highmoon.ae
With the arrival of the cold, our more tropical palm trees will have a hard time if we live in an area where temperatures drop below 10 degrees Celsius. It is very normal that, if until recently they were perfect, with completely green and healthy leaves, now the tips begin to have brown or even yellow.
To avoid this, it is important to anticipate and take measures before the fresh returns. Now you should know that it’s never too late to know how to protect palm trees from the cold. Write down these tips.
Which palm trees will need protection from the cold?
Underside of a sheet of Cocoa nuts (coconut tree)
As important as protecting them is knowing which species need such protection, since it makes no sense to protect one, for example, Archontophoenix Alexandrae. which is in an area where the lowest temperature recorded throughout the year is -2ºC. So that, depending on both the plant in question and the climate we will have to protect one or the other.
In general, and to give us an idea, if the temperature drops below 15ºC we will have to protect the following:
- Cocoa nuts (coconut tree)
- Veitchia
- Areca
- Dypsis (except the D. decaryi and D. deceiving)
- dictyocaryum
- Rhopaloblast
- Raffia
- Cyrtostachys
- And all the tropical ones.
On the other hand, if the temperature drops below 0º, the following will need protection:
Caryota, from my collection.
- Roystonea
- mild caryota
- Lepidorachis mooreana
- Lytocaryum weddellianum
- geonome
- hedysceps
- Archontophoenix purpurea
- wallichia
- Allagoptera caudescens
- Among others.
How to protect them?
Greenhouse
If you are a handyman or have many sensitive plants that you must protect, the ideal is that build a greenhouse to keep them sheltered from the wind, frost and snow.
Anti-frost fabric
There are several ways to protect palm trees from the cold, one of the main ones being to wrap them with anti-frost fabric. It’s a quick and easy way to prevent winter from having a bad time without having to move them around.
Transparent plastic
It can be used in the same way as anti-frost fabric, that is, wrapping the palm tree with it.
Put them at home
It is the most popular option. Palm trees, already young, are very decorative, so that winter is used to enjoy them indoors. But it is convenient to have them in a room where a lot of natural light enters and keep them away from drafts so that they do not suffer.
Padding
As long as we do not live in an area that is too cold for the palm tree, it will surely be enough to protect its roots with dry leaves or pine bark.
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