More Old Sabal Palmettos

[sur4z]

My parents house has 39 sabal palmettos planted in the 50's. As their street was being developed, people needed these cabbage palms removed to build their houses. So my Dad would transplant them on his property even thought the conventional wisdom at the time was this couldn't be done successfully.Well obviously the wisdom of the time was wrong and the trees are still going strong. I just had them trimmed the other day.

[Xerarch]

Beautiful palms! Let's see, planted in the 50's to achieve that height. That means that if I plant some today.....60 years to grow....ah crap, I'll be dead before they get that big!

[Eric in Orlando]

Old Sabal palmetto look great !

[Dave-Vero]

Those really are old. A grad student at the University of Florida is working on the age of these palms. One find was an avenue of palms planted on Fort George Island in the 19th century...but the exact date still isn't certain. In any case, those yard palms are likely to be well over a century old.