Eastern Shore Palms

[Damajcza]

Is it Possible to grow palms naturally in Southern Delaware Southeastern Maryland and Eastern Shore Virginia?

[Damajcza]

[Little Tex]

None of those photos are true palms, but in Delaware, I doubt you could grow anything but a needle palm or maybe a sabal minor, Maryland you could start to try tracycarpus too, Virginia, you could have tracys until you could also have sabal palmetto in VA beach area.

[Damajcza]

8 minutes ago, Little Tex said:

None of those photos are true palms, but in Delaware, I doubt you could grow anything but a needle palm or maybe a sabal minor, Maryland you could start to try tracycarpus too, Virginia, you could have tracys until you could also have sabal palmetto in VA beach area.

The compositon of the soil here is very sandy in some spots its very marl like and acidic I've brought sabal seeds uo from FL when I used  to live there and strew them in the Pocomoke River National Forest along US 113 hoping something would happen years later... I'm sure sabals natural range have depleted over decades and I'm sure there were stagglers on Delmarva back then before industry...Thanks for the info tho bro!

[Damajcza]

1 minute ago, Damajcza said:

The compositon of the soil here is very sandy in some spots its very marl like and acidic I've brought sabal seeds uo from FL when I used  to live there and strew them in the Pocomoke River National Forest along US 113 hoping something would happen years later... I'm sure sabals natural range have depleted over decades and I'm sure there were stagglers on Delmarva back then before industry...Thanks for the info tho bro!

There's actually a few sabal palmettos in Northampton County Virginia town of Cape Charles I've seen which is about 80miles from where I live now... I've also heard deep in the swamps of Northampton theres a strain of Spanish Moss epidemic to  Virginia only... I'm sure there's maybe sabal minors deep in those unnavigable swamps... I'm sure the Great Dismal Swamp in VA and NC has lost specimens too would be great to explore!

[PalmatierMeg]

You may be able to grow needle palms, perhaps Sabal minor. Sabal palmetto might be a long shot but well worth trying. Sabal minor comes in many forms from tiny dwarf to giant and you can landscape a whole yard in those many phenotypes. You can research them on the internet and PT. I suggest that rather than throwing seeds all over the ground that you germinate them in pots, grow them  up, then plant them where you want them. That way you can protect them from weather and predation. Welcome to PalmTalk.

[Sabal King]

4 minutes ago, PalmatierMeg said:

You may be able to grow needle palms, perhaps Sabal minor. Sabal palmetto might be a long shot but well worth trying. Sabal minor comes in many forms from tiny dwarf to giant and you can landscape a whole yard in those many phenotypes. You can research them on the internet and PT. I suggest that rather than throwing seeds all over the ground that you germinate them in pots, grow them  up, then plant them where you want them. That way you can protect them from weather and predation. Welcome to PalmTalk.

It amazes me that sabal is so diverse, and really one could do so much in their landscape (if they can only really handle really cold hardy things) with just sabal minor.. that's just Minor... now add in some of the other trunkers available (louisiana, brazos, birmingham) and you could have quite a beautiful spread.

[Allen]

Should be able to grow several types

 

 

[tjwalters]

Needle palms (Rhapidophyllum hystrix) and dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) are rock-solid in most, if not all, of DE.  In coastal DE (Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Bethany Beach, etc.) it might be worth trying a windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) in protected areas.  Your options expand if you decide to abandon the "naturally" and start providing winter protection.

[GregVirginia7]

South Bethany Delaware: Sabal minor planted 2015. Pics 2016 And 2017...still there but much bigger.

 

 

 

 

Another Sabal minor planted around 2015...pics from 2016 and 2017...it has survived salty water canal floods...still there and much larger now...if we get down there later this month, will send some current pics.