Palms and Cycads: An update on my palm addiction, 1 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
this is my measly excuse for S sancona... definitely NOT the most hardy of syagrus.. in fact, got burned the worst of any of mine, and it was under protection of shade cloth. I had one that grew to 10 in Thousand Oaks and wiped out completely by a freeze that only barely touched the Raphia farninfera (a pretty cold sensitive palm) right next to it... I would NOT rate this as a cold hardy Syagrus.. in fact, I would consider it one of the least cold hardy of all the Syagrus you can grow here, save S cearenis and S pseudococos. Be careful planting yours in harm's way. Nice looking palm, but a total wimp when it comes to cold. There are a lot of nice ones in So Cal but all are in very 'friendly' climates.