Phoenix
"Up From The Ashes"
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Copyright © 2003-2020 Gary Hollar
This large Phoenix palm was planted around 2001. Less than two years later it was totally defoliated by a freeze in the low teens. Here are photos of its recovery and subsequent freezes and recovery. As with the mythical bird, it was burned and then rose again. But for how long?
If these freezes keep occurring every other year, it is possible that this Phoenix will lose more leaves than it can re-grow the following season and will eventually go into decline and die. In the years since it was planted it has unfortunately not re-grown to its original size.
