On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:09:30 -0000, David WE Roberts wrote:

So can palms recover? Maybe not enough time has been allowed to
see if
they can regrow.

*Well I lost a few last year.

I thought I'd lost one last year. However a new bit of green is showing
through all the dead stuff. Could take a while to grow out, though.

I think that an awful lot are plants are written off as dead long
before they actually are. We have young trees if the "dead" twig
coming out of the ground or pot doesn't easyly pull out it stays, it
still has roots attached. It might take a couple of years before
there is any particular sign of life in the twig but quite a few
"dead" things have not been dead at all. Other plants do the same,
die right back, then a year or two later reappear.

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Cheers
Dave.