On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:24:23 -0500, "Laura" wrote:

How small were they? You might have had better luck with larger plants
(assuming that they had been grown outdoors in a location that gets some
winter frosts so that they would not be so shocked by your climate). But
then you would have had a much larger $$ risk, since the big ones are
pricey.

Also, 7b's a pretty marginal zone for cycas revolutas. Were the three that
survived in more protected locations than the others?


Most of them were just small ones no bigger than a baseball across the long axis. Paid around $3.00
each for them in bulk on Ebay. They were rootless and leafless, and each put out only 1-2 leaves
before the winter. Two that survived were from that group, and not only did they live through the
winter, they never even lost their leaves, even though they were iced over at times. They were
given the same conditions. All of those were still in plastic pots. The third one that survived
was a larger, more expensive one that had maybe 20 leaves on it when I bought it. I had put it in
the ground to see how it would do (even though I have red clay soil). It survived (though half of
the leaves died) and is now, as I mentioned, putting on new leaves as of now.






Just curious,
Laura

"Darren Garrison" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:37:04 -0400, Darren Garrison
wrote:

I live in Zone 7b South Carolina. I bought a few small Cycas revoluta
(Sago Palm) last year to see
if they could handle my climate. Almost all of them died over the winter,
and the three that
survived haven't put on any new leaves.

As an update, I looked at the largest of my three surviving Sagos today,
and it has a throw of 8
leaves coming out from the top.