Are there palm trees in the UK?

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Pete Mctree]

S*** that was a close call. I hope someone bought that fireman at least his own bodyweight in beer.

[tockmal]

Glad to se it all worked out ok, I still wouldn't trust that firefighter with the chainsaw though, would have to be one of you guys doing the cutting above my head like that!!!!

 

Are there palm trees in the UK?

 

I know for fact there are about 20 at Logan gardens on the south west coast of Scotland, in total.....there is probably less than 100 in the whole of Scotland.

 

Here are the ones at Logan, I think they are Chinese.

 

[vduben]

looks like a pheonix palm??

here are some in the south of ireland i think....

[Will]

Every second garden has one in, down here in south Cornwall, luckily they don't reach the hights of the continental palms.

I'm working in the Isles of Scilly in 2 weeks so I will almost certainly come across a few palms planted under the LV power lines...happy days.

[treemeup]

looks like a pheonix palm??

here are some in the south of ireland i think....

 

 

this is a pheonix, horrible, horrible things!

[Alex]

yes all over the place, just not as many as there are sycamore's

[Sciadopitys]

Nah, not a pheonix the first pic - itsa Trachycarpus fortunei (chusan palm) from china! Hardy to about -11 celsius as is Chamaerops humilis from the Medd. it also will grow in UK climate. As will Pheonix canariensis from the canary islands and Washingtonia filifera from thedeserts of Southern California! All are common in the garden centre in UK, but only do well in milder parts of the country like western scotland, west of ireland and the SW.

 

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[Guest GOD]

looks a lot like a date plam

[Bundle 2]

I still wouldn't trust that firefighter with the chainsaw though, would have to be one of you guys doing the cutting above my head like that!!!!

 

Yeah, I gotta say that looked pretty desparate...would have scared me to death anyone with a chainsaw around me like tha'......

 

Yeah Palms , alot. They like the Atlantic drift and the systems thing bring...why comes s.Ireland has a few! ( Co Cork)