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As a Spaniard, paying frequent visits to the U.K., I am very surprised at the shoddy design and limited imagination of your resorts on the South Coast.
In Spain, seaside towns present the most beautiful architecture and delightful promenades, all designed to attract lots of tourists. In England, the reverse seems to be the case.
I went to Brighton this weekend to see the famous new marina and couldn't believe my eyes. There are gigantic palm trees all over the place - and they are all plastic! The marina itself has to be entered via a huge car park which rivals your Spaghetti Junction and there are strange built-up road levels everywhere which disfigure the view from the houses around the marina.
50 species of palm trees which can withstand England's cold weather
Come on councillors of Brighton, surely you can do much better than this? There are about 50 species of palm trees which can withstand England's cold weather and strong winds, so planting plastic trees is just a tacky unappealing and unimaginative.
Maybe they should try planting Washingtonia Robusta (hardy down to -6 degrees Centigrade) or Phoenix Canariensis (hardy down to -9 degrees Centigrade) or Butia Capitata (hardy down to -10 degrees Centigrade) or even Trachycarpus Fortunei (hardy down right down to -17 degrees Centigrade!). Plastic is not fantastic!
By: Joaquin
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Palm trees are OK in botanical gardens and parks, but anywhere else they have no real practical benefit. We need shady trees that cool the city streets and soak up CO2. Palm trees are decorative, but that's not enough to justify any extensive planting in the UK.
tranchycarpus wagneranius(Windmill Palm) hardy: -15 C
jubaea chilensis(Chilean Wine Palm) hardy: -12 C
Cabbage Palm(Cordyline australis) -10 for a short period
Pheonix Canariensis: *not hardy for the UK. If you want a nice specimen move to warm climate. growth occurs at: +10 C
European Fan Palm(Dwarf fan palm) Not quite as hardy as windmill palms) hardy: -10
I have tested these palm in buckinghamshire on the uk mainland and pheonix canariensis suffers during the winter as temperatures do not hit 10 C regularly enough. Chilean Wine palm does well but grows slowly and I highly recommend this species for the uk mainland as its reliable. Cabbage palm grows slowly in early spring but grows rapidly in the summer.
I take it you are not English? Yet you yourself are nasty, aggresive, violent and vulger!?
I can only assume you are a jealous foreigner, explains a lot ;-)
And yes many palm trees grow here in the south of England, real ones too...
I've been thinking about going to cornwall recently, purely because I want to see if you are right . My mum went there and said she saw lots of palms and I want to see if she's right. If they are all plastic, mum's stumped. If she is right, your'e stumped (yes that's you Joaquin), and i'll have to say 'Jupiter likes you Ganymede!'.
Bpb