Botany Bay Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina

This is from the low country of South Carolina. Maybe not as palmy as the tropics, but it does have palms and a fascinating beauty all to its own.

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Simply amazing!

That is gorgeous. I could make so many comments about the city landscapers where I live and how...oh why even bother. At there are some places that still know how to do it right.

I agree with the Toadman.

Real pretty. High dew points in the low country keep the Spanish Moss flourishing.

Wonderful pic Keith, a place unique to itself!

Would love to create a tunnel effect like this down the narrow setback walking path on my shady west side. Love the picture.

There are many canopy roads and country roads here that look just like that. For miles and miles...

reminds me of the tunnel of trees in south kauai when we visited awesome beauty there in south carolina thanks for sharing

Thanks to the power companies, there not many of these left in Louisiana. Just a few that lead to nowhere.

Thanks for sharing the pic, that's beautiful!!!

What palm is it, palmeto ?

Thanks for sharing the pic, that's beautiful!!!

What palm is it, palmeto ?

Yes, Sabal Palmetto, a native of South Carolina and a number of other southern States.

The live oak forrests draped with spanish moss, and sabal palmettos and serenoa repens growing under are gorgeous. You lose this when you go south past bradenton. Every time I drive past those roadside forrests its a treat...

Great picture Keith. We saw a few similar roads on our trip to south Florida late last year. It was mostly cloudy so the pictures didn't come out so nice, but they are in my mind. Speaking of the few that lead to nowhere, what about the long line of live oaks on the road to Jefferson Island? I thought the gardens would discuss these but there was no information about who planted them. The guy who gave the house tour didn't know either.

Maybe there aren't a ton of palms in the South like in Hawaii, but the south screams of warmth and humidity. When I first visited Central Florida, I was sabal illiterate and I just couldn't figure out why all those "Washingtonia" looked so different from how they grow in California. It's taken me 15 years of palm growing to get interested in the sabals and to finally realize that all those fan palms in Florida with the droopy fronds aren't washingtonias at all. Now I have a whole collections of sabals just to capture some of that feeling of lazy and charming warmth from the South. I have literally fallen in love with the sabals and I managed to end up with quite a few different species.

Maybe the sabals won't warm up our freezing Summer nights, but they'll at least make it look warmer.