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Pruning Your Cold Damaged Palms

LSU AgCenter
Credit LSU AgCenter

You might be wondering about your tropicals right about now. Tender tropical plants were significantly affected by this winter's cold temperatures.

Sago palms took a beating this year and the AgCenter has been receiving a lot of questions about them. You want to prune off any fronds that have cold damage. The plant will be fine without them. The trunks have enough sugars in them to make sure the palm can leaf out this spring.

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LSU AgCenter's Lee Rouse is our new host for Bayou Garden.