This was one of the coldest winters on record in Northern Florida and our trees show it. We brought in the lemon, lime and banana tree into the garage for multiple days during the heavy frost, but not all of them made it. The banana tree was completely brown from the stress by the time we could take them out this weekend and the citrus trees had a lot of damage. We are hoping that those two are salvageable now that it is starting to warm up. The leaves are coming back at the base and the branches in some spots are turning green again which we take as a good sign.
Unfortunately, our pygmy date palm took a really hard hit when the temperatures were below thirty degrees for several nights recently. We had never seen it look that severely damaged in the four years that we have owned the home. We did some research on what to do to try and save it, and there was some good news. The inside of the palm is still green which means that it could survive the cold stress. Doug trimmed it as suggested and we will now just have to wait and see. It is by far my favorite part of our landscaping, and I am hoping to see it return to main focus of our front yard soon.
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