Palms Can’t Grow Here!

I wanted to relay a recent conversation I had with a fellow at the gym who informed me – after finding out that I had a collection of palms in my yard – that “palms can’t grow in DC. It’s too cold.”

After offering real life examples, like my own yard, of palms that grow in DC, I also pointed out that palms exist in other parts of the world, where many knee-jerk skeptics might think impossible: Russia, Scotland, the Pacific Northwest, Northern France.

I still don’t think he believed me.