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Sabal Minor "Louisiana" in Zone 7

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December 30, 20232 yr

I have relatives there. I may have to convince them to try a palm or two.

Zone 6b maritime climate

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December 30, 20232 yr

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2 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

I have relatives there. I may have to convince them to try a palm or two.

For sure. There are a lot of windmills and minors around here, and even some palmettos.

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January 1, 20242 yr

On 12/30/2023 at 9:22 AM, RJ said:

LOL I've got some seed in the works, hoping they pop here shortly. Just too many projects I guess. Along with my palm fetish I also have a tree fetish, and have actually been focusing on that most recently. Now that the house is in, long term landscaping plans need to come together, but as always it's all in the prep work. I have been running underground irrigation lines all over the place, low voltage and high voltage as well. All while still trying to make accommodations for growth down the road. I've got a clean slate to work with so I want to get it right.

I do have a ton of these available right now and will have more next year as well.

Subscribe to my YouTube here to follow along my Sabal obsession.... Quite possibly one of the biggest Sabal plantings in the US.

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January 1, 20242 yr

Link to updated inventory?

Zone 6b maritime climate

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January 2, 20242 yr

14 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

Link to updated inventory?

Sabal King inventory:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V791fdbLMw4qya6OYa1KIgOe7jwam0V-n6BUV3K1ZDs/edit#gid=106841047

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January 2, 20242 yr

I was looking for some 'Louisiana' seeds and saw the RPS site entry. They are stating slow growth & "This dwarf palm is the smallest of the Sabal, and an important and popular species because of its legendary cold hardiness." That contradicts much of what I've seen and read here. Cold hardy, yes. Slow, dwarf (smallest of the Sabal), not so much. What say you?

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January 2, 20242 yr

1 hour ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

I was looking for some 'Louisiana' seeds and saw the RPS site entry. They are stating slow growth & "This dwarf palm is the smallest of the Sabal, and an important and popular species because of its legendary cold hardiness." That contradicts much of what I've seen and read here. Cold hardy, yes. Slow, dwarf (smallest of the Sabal), not so much. What say you?

S. minor is commonly called dwarf palmetto and is in fact the smallest of the Sabal species. But there is a whole bunch of varieties of Sabal minor of which "Louisiana" is one of the larger varieties. There are also dwarf dwarf palmetto ie. dwarf Sabal minor.

Edited January 2, 20242 yr by Allen

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