Since when does England have Palm trees?

[mikey3000]

I just saw on a TV show, Excape to the Country that the South Devon countryside has Palm trees? Is that for real?

 

[Yooper]

Global warming.

 

[unloadonme]

I just saw on a TV show, Excape to the Country that the South Devon countryside has Palm trees? Is that for real?

Yes it is for real. The climate there is very mild.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Since long before anyone of us was born. They grow naturally there.
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[Vannie]

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[rareboy]

I just saw on a TV show, Excape to the Country that the South Devon countryside has Palm trees? Is that for real?

Seriously.

You never learned anything about the south of England?

And the effect of the Gulf Stream?

 

[Cormac135]

Sure do.

 

[Essex Boy]

Pineapples too!

 

[LeicsDom]

I just saw on a TV show, Excape to the Country that the South Devon countryside has Palm trees? Is that for real?

Yes. The south west has had all sorts of sub tropical fauna for a long time.
Contrary to conspiracy theorists it has been plenty warm enough for a very long time

 

[oaken88]

Even here in the east there is a coastal town Clacton-on-Sea that has them

 

[eddielee]

Windmill palms grow very well in that climate. Trachycarpus fortunei is the name.

 

[Rickrock]

This is news to me too. Glad that it came up.

 

[mikey3000]

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What a hottie!

 

[roadtripboy]

I watched Escape to the Country and didn't notice that. But, then again Palm trees also grow here in South Carolina so I'm used to seeing them.

 

[Latimer]

Seriously.

You never learned anything about the south of England?

And the effect of the Gulf Stream?

I few years ago my partner and I were in West Cork in Eire in June and the temperature there was slightly warmer than it would have been on the westside of Los Angeles at that time of year. We were in Rome last year the week between Christmas and New Year, where it was in the 40s. We checked the temperature in Glengarriff--where we had at one time discussed going for Christmas--and found that the temperatures were in the 60s.

http://www.garnishisland.com/

https://www.glengarriffnaturereserve.ie/

Our hotel was adjacent to the Glengarriff Nature Reserve, which was wonderful, as was Garnish Island. I loved being in Ireland.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Even here in the east there is a coastal town Clacton-on-Sea that has them

I noticed them growing outside in the botanical gardens of Antwerp, Belgium two months ago. It was February, and the temperature was already 17°C. People were having lunch al fresco and buying icecream from food trucks. The two previous weeks in Marrakesh were colder, as was Madrid two weeks later. And in most years, there are a few weeks that the capitals of Iceland and Greenland are warmer than those of Spain and Italy. The Gulf Steam is amazing. When it dies, which may well happen due to climate change, Europe will suddenly remember it has Canadian and Siberian latitudes.

 

[72-Jay]

Interesting. I didn't know that.

I'd love to have a palm tree. Maybe one could be genetically engineered to survive winters here (well it'd also have to be made to take a good thrashing by the wind too)

 

[Alnitak]

We have a single palm tree in Baltimore located at the head of the Bear Creek. I swear the owners replace it every year, but in the warmest microclimates around town we do have a USDA climate zone of 8.

 

[Alistair]

We have a single palm tree in Baltimore located at the head of the Bear Creek. I swear the owners replace it every year, but in the warmest microclimates around town we do have a USDA climate zone of 8.

There's a bunch of palm trees right on the beach in Ocean City, MD.

 

[dpnice]

Living in the South of France I see nothing but palm trees; I miss England's forests.

Mind you we may loose them all seeing that they are being attacked and killed off by an invading beetle.