How to Protect Your Cycads From Cold Weather
Even in relatively mild climates, like those in Southern California, can pose challenges to young cycads. When you don't have the benefit of large cover plants, you need to take additional steps to protect your cycad investment. With 39 years of experience, growing and maintaining palms and cyads, I hope that as the cold winter weather approaches, I can be of some assistance in helping you achieve success in your own garden. I hope to share my successes, as well as my failures, and how I overcame them. Consideration needs to be made in terms of your climate, when caring for palms and cyads. I currently live in North San Diego, and have done for 12 years. The climate is particularly warm in the summer, but significantly colder in the winter. While I have lived here, the temperature has been as low as low 20's Fahrenheit, for 3 of the years I have been here. In contrast, I used to live very close to the ocean, where the weather was in fact a lot more mild. Unfortunately, this ex...