Rodney,



I don't give a rat's behind about your 1 degree. What I'm talking about is the number of total cold (frost) hours is less than it used to be and anyone that read my comment would have understood that but you. The Media (dah-dah-dum) has no influence on what I see firsthand in my backyard. I don't directly care about global events because I can't affect them, but I do care about local events because they affect me so don't tell me I'm confused.



Your palm rant is as misguided as the totality of your logic on this board. Fewer total frost hours on a marginal plant means less chance of defoliation and therefore a greater chance of survival. Twenty years ago my palms were defoliated by a succession of frosts and couldn't recover enough in Summer to survive defoliation again the following Winter. About 14 years ago we started having warmer Winters. Instead of getting cold and staying that way night and day, we began to warm up strongly during the daylight hours almost like North Florida weather. When this began to happen, I started planting palms again and there was only occasional damage every other year or every 3 years and the palms easily recovered. Currently a new palm fresh dug from a Central Florida field settles in just fine with the same care and planting techniques that I used 20 years ago.



Have you started that garden yet? Maybe it will liberalize some of that brain power that you're so conservative with.
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