Why do palm trees grow all over El Paso but not in other cities in Texas? The winters in El Paso are colder.?

Question

By the way, that last question mark isn't supposed to be there. It's a fact that winters in El Paso are colder than in other Texas cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

Answer 1

Draw a line from El Paso to Beaumont, TX. Everywhere south of that line, palms grow quite well. Some varieties are more acclimated to cool weather and thrive in cooler climates but most will not survive a hard (29 degrees or lower for 12 hours or more) freeze.

Answer 2

I live just north of Houston and have a beautiful Mexican Fan Palm in my front yard that has grown very well. When the ice storm hit our area recently I thought I had lost it. The palms were all drooping down to the ground and I was devastated. The next day however all the palms were back in there normal position with the only visible damage to the tips of the palms !

Answer 3

i presumed this turned right into a really interesting question, so I did some analyze. Humidity is way higher in Dallas and Houston than El Paso. also, wintry climate rainfall is larger in dallas, which Washingtonia's don't love. they quite seem to hate chilly + humidity. right that's a link i presumed became good below.

Answer 4

because of the different regions...Gulf Coastal plains, Great Plains, Interior Lowlands, and Basin and Range Province... in simple language the land/climate/etc is not the same in differen't parts of tx. i.e(right now it is 70 degrees in the Houston Area and 40 in the Dallas Area)

Answer 5

We're near Ft. Worth/Dallas, and our neighbors have several palm trees, and they're doing great.

Lots of places in Texas have palms, even if it gets cold, it doesn't stay that way very long.

Answer 6

If you plant them and take care of them, they do fine in Houston, Galveston and surrounding areas.