Palms are the plants that say warm climate at a glance, their fronds and fan-leaves unmistakable even from a distance. Less obvious is how tough many of them are: a good number of palms take frost, wind, and even snow in stride, and this collection leans on those cold-hardy kinds, the ones that hold their tropical looks through a real Southern winter and beyond.

In the landscape palms are pure signature. A single specimen turns a courtyard or poolside into a destination; a row lines a drive with rhythm and height; a cluster reads as an oasis. Their bold silhouettes and evergreen fronds give a garden structure and a strong sense of place, and they combine happily with broad-leaved sub-tropicals and fine-textured ferns for a full, layered, resort-like effect.

We grow palms because they let Southern gardeners have the tropical look honestly, with plants that will actually live outdoors here rather than sulk and die back each winter. Part of what this collection offers is the knowledge of which palms take which cold, so the feeling of the tropics can be built to last rather than replanted each spring.

Give them heat, sun, and sharp drainage, shelter the more tender kinds from cold wind, and be patient, since palms establish slowly and reward the wait. Pair them with the bold foliage of our Sub-Tropicals and the cool texture of our Ferns to complete the effect.