On 12 Jun 2006 13:09:04 -0700, "Graham Easterling"
wrote:

My palm trees are a variant of Cordyline Australis, an Australian Palm.
Known as Torbay Palms in Devon, and not surprisingly, Cornish Palms in
Cornwall.

There are large variety of palm trees grown in Cornwall. As Nick says
many are fairly hardy, but in my experience -5C is the absolute limit
if they are wet, as the ice seems to kill them.

www.trevenacross.co.uk/shop/page4a.htm shows some of the palm trees
grown in Cornwall.

Graham



A sign of the times, I guess but many garden centres are now selling
agaves, oleanders and other semi-tropical/mediterranean type plants.
Our yucca on our front lawn has grown so well in recent years it is
now resembling a joshua tree, and has just thrown up five huge flower
spikes, looking a bit like giant asparagus.

Martin