Palms all dead

[Askil]

Does anyone know why all the palms died this yr after the last storm in April? all of our just died having grown strong and tall and thrived for nearly 20yrs. Our Codyline in a pot got its leaves ripped off as well and died. I've also noticed every house I've passed where they have palms or Cordyline they're all dead too with all the leaves stripped off in similar fashion.

They've all lived through loads of storms before so completely stumped what was different about this years storms. Gardener friend said the storm destroyed all of them all over the country.

I thought it was the period of very cold weather that killed a lot of plants, ones which can withstand some frost but not too much. It might be that the cold had badly weakened some of the plants so then storms could rip off the leaves?

It's just very strange (novice gardener) straight after the second storm, all the palm leaves started dropping off in huge chunks including the potted Cordyline. They all fell off till they were bare naked. Then the stems all rotted and died. It was house after house. We've had storms & much worse cold weather for yrs and it's never affected them. Ours had flowered yearly and were really pretty to see from the road. There's a huge Palm like bushy thing that's shooting up near where the palm once was. I'm not versed in Palm behaviour but It could be a new one sprouting although the stem seems to be missing or it could another variety.

how odd - I have a palm type thing in the back garden which seemed to die after the storms as you say. At the time I was thinking it hadn't been any windier, or colder than in the past which it had survived. I tidied up the dead leaves, but didn't actually bother to pull up the roots, and over the summer it suddenly sprouted loads of new leaves out of the sides. I wouldn't call myself a gardener of any description, even novice, so don't have any explanation but interested to see any theories!

I lost palms during the prolonged period of -8 degrees winter weather this year.

My cordyline also looked dead at thetime but I cut off the dead leaves and they have re-sprouted from the base. I have noticed other cordylines in my area are also back to life. Give them time before binning the cordyline - they may surprise you.

@Rhythmisadancer Your experience sounds almost identical to ours. I also thought it hadn't been exceptionally cold etc but here we are. @ruby1957 I haven't binned yet mainly because its in a large platter and was wondering what to do with it next but just this afternoon i went out to look at it again and lo and behold, there's a thin purple leaf that has sprouted !!!! just one single one. I shall leave it like you said.

I think they were all killed off by that really cold winter. The leaves probably stayed green for a few months, but come spring, and that was that. Loads of people round here have dead ones in their garden. Sometimes you're lucky and they sprout from right down at soil level, so it is worth leaving them in for a while just in case.