Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #65, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Got the photos of the damage in the garden today. Well, it's a bit hard to ascertain when the actual damage occured, but it must have been a lightning strike. Seems as though it came a bit from one side and collected a number of Coconut palms. One in particular got most of the wallop, and then the lightning hit a small Coconut that hadn't yet developed a trunk. The most obvious casualty was the Philo high up on the trunk of one of the Coconuts. I'm hoping that damage is only from radiated heat from the flash. If so, the stem should resprout. But at the moment it looks pretty sad.