There are thousands of different species of palm trees, and most of them are strictly tropical, but a handful of palms can handle enough cold to survive our mildest winters.

Texas sabal palm (Sabal texana) is a slow-growing palm with thick, smooth, spineless leaf stems and is cold-hardy to about 10 degrees.(Howard Garrett) Several palm trees will grow well here in ...

Hobday says it's the cold-hardiest crape myrtle he's found. 7.) Hardy banana (Musa basjoo). A seldom-fruiting banana that grows 10 feet tall in a single year and develops huge fan-shaped leaves.

Gardeners can renew their faith in palms by planting a cold-hardy selection, said Gary Paul, senior horticulturist at Leu Botanical Gardens in Orlando.

While looking through pictures I took of my garden last summer I came across one of my banana plants and remembered that Virginia is a great place to grow cold-hardy tropicals. I found the following ...

There are dozens of species of cold-hardy palms, the signature plant of beach vacations and tropical getaways, that will grow in states well above the Sun Belt. In fact, there are a few that can ...

But I think we have just have been reminded that not all palms are truly cold-hardy. If you look around, you will see that the sabal palms, pindo palm and needle palms look like they made it ...

There are thousands of different species of palm trees, and most of them are strictly tropical, but a handful of palms can handle enough cold to survive our mildest winters.

There are thousands of different species of palm trees, and most of them are strictly tropical, but a handful of palms can handle enough cold to survive our mildest winters.