Very nice. At least you got alot of growth for the fall. I cant believe the cold is comming back again. Time for me to make my final desicions on how to protect my palms.

So far the fastest palm for me was my needle palm (I was pretty surpried). It made 3 babies and put out 4 new leaves since july on the main plant. My pindo (in the ground) is putting out its second leaf now and may put out its 3rd before winter. One windmill palm is dead (at least as far as I know but the other 2 are doing great. The sabal minor put out about 2 leaves since june so overall not too bad.
Lets hope this winters a kind one! Im hoping temps stay abouve 10 degrees, but I dont think that will be happening since they are predicting a colder winter than typical.

Good luck with your palms this winter, and thanks for sharing!

Yeah, the weather this year really stunk. Coldest July on record here in my part of SE Michigan. NOTHING has grown to speak of. Windmills putting on some growth, and my Washies a bit. Bananas, however, are just sitting. It's like the year without a summer, and now its all but over. Better luck next year is all I can say.

June was a horrible month for all my plants. My banana Started to rot after the end of the month. We got about 13 inches of rain, and only 2 days in the 80s. Averages in my area for the month of june is about 84 degrees for a high, 68 for a low, and about 3 or 4 inches of rain. Some days ended up being 68!
July was lot better and after repotting my banana it did come back to life. My cannas all started blooming, and everything was growing extremely fast.
August has been pretty decent and at least sunny. Lots of humidity though which means thunderstorms which have come with a ton of wind and lightning. Other than that, 2 out of 3 of my plumerias are on their way to blooming, most of my palms are growing well and everything is growing pretty decently.

Only palm that is really stubborn for me is my washingtionia. It lost all its leaves during the spring after a very windy rain event that brought sustained winds of 35 mph and gusts past 60. The fragile indoor leaves were pulled right off after a leaf on my queen palm fell on the small plant. The spear was broken right off too. As of today it has made only 2 or 3 new leaves so far this summer, so it was very dissapointing, but at least its potted because it will never make it through a winter in its current state.

I hope next year makes up for all of this! Good luck to everyone!

Looks like everything has endured the chilly summer well. It's a shame you will have to start protecting in a few months. That's a fun part of this hobby too though.

Jay