Re: PALM TREES IN SCOTLAND

Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:
"Cory Bhreckan" <coryvreckan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:L_C2k.2705$lE3.1210@xxxxxxxxxxx
S Viemeister wrote:
Paul C wrote:

You can go a lot further north than Galloway and see palm trees in
Scotland.

Plockton and Inverewe come to mind

Near the Royal Bank in Tongue, too.
I've even seen some in Orkney.
Ullapool too, but expect Adam to careen into this thread muttering something about them really being big lilies and that we are all imbeciles.

Well it's true.
Unfortunately the myth is now so well established that even people who really should know better continue to perpetuate it.
I'm not going to waste any more time on this one, other than to say that I worked as a gardener in Inverewe Gardens and there were NO true palm trees growing there. The trees that look like Palm trees are in fact Trachycarpus fortunei and Cordyline australis - both of which are tough as old boots.

SFAICR the generally accepted European northern limit of any of the 30 odd genera of the Palmaceae order - ie: true Palms - is just north of Lisbon.

So the date palms in the south of France aren't real palms?




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