Palm Trees in Ireland

[Raymond Bridge]

No, Mark, there really are palm trees in some places (outdoors) in Ireland, and on the southwestern coast of England, because of the Gulf Stream.
See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/palm-trees-in-ireland-36548780/?no-ist
Ray Bridge

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Palm trees in Ireland, maybe when the land masses were closer to the equator but I think Bob was talking about 1997 A.D.

On 11/15/2014 4:57 PM, Johnny Johnson wrote:
> When Mitchelle and I toured in Ireland several years ago I was
> surprised at how many palm trees we saw.
>
> Later,
> Johnny
>
> -----------------
> Johnny Johnson
> Cleveland, GA
>
> On Nov 15, 2014 4:34 PM, "fietsBob" <fiet...@gmail.com
> <mailto:fiet...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Started my '97 tour in the last week of february , but it was
> Ireland not MN.. the Atlantic Gulf stream is a wonderful Thing.
>
> On Friday, November 14, 2014 5:12:32 AM UTC-8, Mark Boyd wrote:
>
> The forecast was wrong. It is !literally freezing here this morning.
>
> Mark


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[John Gorentz]

Some of Ireland's left-coast palm trees took a hit in the winter of
2010-2011. I have photos of the remains of some in the Galway harbor.
I didn't take my bicycle to Ireland in 2011, so won't be posting those.

We saw a few in the southwest on our first visit to Ireland in 1998, but
for some reason my wife continued to say I had never taken her to any
place where there were palm trees. So in 2006 we spent a few days in
Apalachicola, Florida, even though I had never committed a crime bad
enough to deserve being sent to Florida. Actually, the Apalachicola area
was pretty nice - not at all like the Florida of my imagination - but I
have a hunch it has changed a lot in the last 8 years.

John Gorentz

[Henrik V. Risager]

West coast of Scotland is know to have "palm" threes. They might not be classed as a palm three elsewhere but for us northern hemisphere folk it is :) 

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.7750432,-5.5966138,3a,37.5y,297.57h,89.51t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNCE1fqfPxUk55RsOMR9aNw!2e0?hl=en

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[Mark_Hoagy]

Thank you Ray for enlightening me and sorry Johnny for my ignorance I
thought you were picking on poor old Bob. I here they even grow in the
Netherlands.

[bpl...@comcast.net]

We were there last year. Saw palms. I'm pretty sure I have a pic of spousy with palms in the background. Can't exactly remember where but I think it was fairly early on our 10 day trip. We started in Dublin and basically went around the coast anti-clockwise which would put it in the north somewhere. But I don't think it was while we in N Ireland.

The thing is that it wasn't all that warm. I think she is wearing a decent coat in that pic.

bp

[Bryan Lorber]

The Gulf Stream is pretty amazing. Narvik, Norway is NORTH of the Arctic Circle and it has an ice free port year round! No Palm trees, though 😄 I'd like to cycle in Norway. It was very interesting to visit.

Bryan
Barrington, RI

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[adventurepdx]

Chinese Windmill Palms are quite hardy. We see them here in the Pacific NW, and they are also grown on the British Isles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachycarpus_fortunei

Here's a good list of hardy palms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hardy_palms

-Shawn

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