Have you got palm trees in your garden?   

I live in South Texas and I have a banana tree beside the house and 2 Grapefruit trees in bloom behind the house. WE are still eating Grapefruit from the crop this winter.We had banana-splits for christmas from our own tree!

Sadly nothing as glamorous or tropical as palm trees in my garden, we like in the UK so palm trees are not able to grow. In our garden we have two pear trees, three apple trees and a plum tree, but sadly the plum tree has developed a nasty disease which has killed it. The cooking apples mum uses to make excellent apple sauce to go with the roast dinners! I love coconuts but wouldn't you be afraid of having a coconut tree in case you got hit by a falling coconut? If one hits you you'd soon know about it, you'd be laid out flat!

We don't but have seen alot of folks around here lately planting them. We always thought it would look nice around the pool to give it some ambience.
Donna

I love the palm trees, unfortunately it's to cold here to grow them.

No palm trees at all where I live. I do like them though. They are not easy to keep indoors either...or else I might have liked that. A palm tree in the kitchen would be cool

i love those palm tree specially coconut i have one in my vacation house in philippines

I live in New York City so there are no palm trees here and I love them. If I ever can get out of here and move down south I will make sure I have some palm trees. I love so much.

Not personally, but the guy who owns my property has two gigantic ones planted - they're all yellow now, and have been since the fall. I wonder if they can survuve in NY?! It's been down to 10 degrees farenheight here over the winter - I wasn't aware that any palm could live through that. Guess I'll find out in the summer. If it grows new fronds, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
This week the supermarket has 15 or more palm trees for sale in the lobby. I can see it for a small ofice, but..outdoor planting here? NAHHHH!!!
Alright, though - here goes on my research fingers:
Posted by "satx318Jrs"
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"Your choices are very limited. Your best bet is to go with the Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus Fortunei). These are very cold hardy palms, and have been known to take temperatures down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. I know of one person on long island that has one on long island in the ground now. You may also want to check out some of the cold hardy palm forums, such as the international palm society website, and other various cold hardy palm forums. There are a lot of palm growers that like to push their zone and expiriment. Some others that should grow in your area include the Sabal Minor, and the Needle Palm. Both hardy to below 0F. The cold hardiest feather palm is the Butia Capitata, hardy to around 10F.
The first one I would try would be the Windmill Palm. It should survive on LI unless you had an extremely cold winter. It is hardy to USDA zone 7 (which Long Island is). It gets about 30 feet tall, and has a nice compact crown of green fronds. These palms are being grown as far north as Seattle Washington, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the United Kingdom."AWESOME!!!!
Never knew that. Heh! Learn something new every day, eh?

We have that type of tree here, since I live in a tropical country!;) We also have those small dwarf coconut trees, were it grows for just about 5 to 6 fee from root to it's top trunk.

Here, coconut trees are called the "tree of life" because every part of it, from leaves up to it's husks, are used for different purposes..

Coconut trees are quite common in my country... since we are one of the top producers of coconut products... and when i visited my mother's home province a few years back... i was in awe with the number of coconut trees planted in the different islands that we passed by... it was like coconut trees as far as the eye could see... and the fruits were so cheap that they practically gave them away for free...

I hope you can visit my country one day... i can tell you the nice places that you will surely enjoy...