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Old 24-01-2011, 08:38 PM
Simmo Simmo is offline
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Aug 2006
Location: Sheffield
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Default Is My Torbay Palm Dead ??

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone could help with this?

I have a Torbay Palm which seems to have struggled during the freezing conditions ..

Normally the lower leaves will dry out and fall off which obviously forms the 'trunk' of the plant as they do so. The new leaves are all stiff, healthy and the newest ones are pointing skywards ..

My poor palm is now just a mass of limp leaves and they are all drooping downwards .. I have noticed that quite a few of these in neighboring gardens are exactly the same as mine too.

Can anyone offer any advice here as it would be a real shame to lose the poor thing .. It is now about 9 years old and was doing really well until now ..

I was wondering if I need to remove all of the obviously dead leaves (which could possibly just leave me a trunk!)

Or .. do I just leave it alone to see what happens ?

Thanks very much.

Dave.