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Dwarf Palmettos along Pamlico River


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All photos were taken on 06/18/18. Goose Creek State Park, NC

 

 

During this time of the year our native sabal minors will start to flower

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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This palm has a very beautiful flower stalk coming up

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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Happy to see this palm undamaged from the past winter. North Carolina had an extremely bad past winter, which damaged native plants. 

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

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Little Seedlings. These may be either be winter survivors or spring germinatorsIMG_3278.thumb.JPG.e65b8c821eb5e01d1d46b

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

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I am not sure why this palm is unhappy. It may be suffering from either winter damage or be irritated by the brackish environment. IMG_3266.thumb.JPG.8bf3b3a960a0fe78ad5b4

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

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Great habitat photos. The last one may be suffering damage from cold, wind and salt.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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These are one tough palm. I planted one out that was sold to me as palmetto. That wouldn't have been issue except for the fact that I wanted a palmetto on either side of my bridge but anyway I now have a minor and a palmetto so the symmetry is ruined. Anyway it loves the peat soil and even sits in water when the lake floods. Real green all year and doesn't care about being in the windiest most frosty part of my yard. It just doesn't care.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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Thanks for the photos.  Even in a relatively mild climate, I have a special appreciation for sabal minor and rhapidophyllum hystrix.  For me personally, these two palms are treasures.  In particular, I love seeing people in marginal climates experimenting with the 'McCurtain' variety and other hardy varieties from Arkansas, northern Alabama, and North Carolina.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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4 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

Thanks for the photos.  Even in a relatively mild climate, I have a special appreciation for sabal minor and rhapidophyllum hystrix.  For me personally, these two palms are treasures.  In particular, I love seeing people in marginal climates experimenting with the 'McCurtain' variety and other hardy varieties from Arkansas, northern Alabama, and North Carolina.

Amen to all that. A person could populate a yard with all the variations of Sabal minor alone. No other native US palm is so versatile. I have specialized in the "uber dwarf" category of S. minors and have nearly half a dozen varieties. There are so many different S. minors out there to be found if you hunt diligently.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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13 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Great habitat photos. The last one may be suffering damage from cold, wind and salt.

I agree. It got so cold here over the past winter that our native plants got damaged and defoliated.  

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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7 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Amen to all that. A person could populate a yard with all the variations of Sabal minor alone. No other native US palm is so versatile. I have specialized in the "uber dwarf" category of S. minors and have nearly half a dozen varieties. There are so many different S. minors out there to be found if you hunt diligently.

In Coastal North Carolina our sabal minors have a blueish tint to them. I am not sure about the variety but I think they are the same ones found on Cape Hatteras. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

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3 hours ago, NC_Palms said:

In Coastal North Carolina our sabal minors have a blueish tint to them. I am not sure about the variety but I think they are the same ones found on Cape Hatteras. 

I believe our "blue stem" variety down here are native to the east coast of Florida as well.  I have 3 of them.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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