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Lebanon TN Sabal palmetto

Allen

By Allen
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Allen

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A in n out special.  Interesting to see how long it lasts 

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This is why in n out will never be in a place that can't support palm trees. It's a requirement for each store.

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Zone7Bpalmguy Community Regular

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4 hours ago, Allen said:

A in n out special.  Interesting to see how long it lasts 

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Well that's cool but good luck with that to them. 

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jwitt Veteran

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4 hours ago, palmaddict83 said:

This is why in n out will never be in a place that can't support palm trees. It's a requirement for each store.

They are in Denver and Colorado Springs, and many other non palm places

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Zone7Bpalmguy Community Regular

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Maybe they can do sabal minors and tie their inflorescence to curved rebar in the X shape, lol...

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21 hours ago, Allen said:

A in n out special.  Interesting to see how long it lasts 

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It will be interesting to see how long they last I saw a post of them on Facebook about A month ago I bet if they planted them as 15 gallon plants up against the wall they would have a better chance of Surviving but I know this is what in and out is known for so we'll see

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19 hours ago, palmaddict83 said:

This is why in n out will never be in a place that can't support palm trees. It's a requirement for each store.

That's actually not true they're  in Colorado I was at one a few years back and there was no palms

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Cool to see them planted even though they won't last. Even some at DFW in & out's croaked after the harsh winters of the last few years.

Will likely pull through for a winter or two, but at the rate these things recover, 2-3 years in a row of that will take these out. 

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Palms aside I have no idea in n out was this far east 

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

L.A.M. Community Regular

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I saw the Lebanon palmettos at In-N-Out recently too. I'm working (mostly in Lebanon) as a Doordasher a few days per week now, so I see a lot of the city regularly. What kind of palmetto are they? They probably need Birmingham or better yet Brazoria palmettos to succeed long-term with minimal effort in this climate. Or needle palms, but their trunks are far shorter, and you'd have to prune them like southern magnolias to show it.

I also would strongly encourage them to plant in April. Even planting in May can be too late in Middle Tennessee from my experience. I live on the escarpment that drops from Gentry to Buffalo Valley with both sandy ridge and clay valley terrain on the grounds, so my experiences do apply both in the Highland Rim and in the Nashville Basin to some degree.

I created a thread asking what kind of palm it was and urging people to please sign and share my petition to play it safe. . . .but if moderators decide to merge my thread with this one, I'm OK with it. I hadn't known there was already a thread about this! Sorry!

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I'm just a neurodivergent Middle Tennessean guy that's obsessively interested in native plants (especially evergreen trees/shrubs) from spruces to palms.

SeanK Grand Master

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Hopefully they see mild winters for the next five.

Another chain known for palm trees is the Taco Cabaña. We had one on Piedmont Rd, northeast ATL inside the perimeter until 2014. The area was redeveloped some, restaurant and palms are long gone.

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Zone7Bpalmguy Community Regular

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@SeanK Do they still have the Bahama Breeze restaurants down your way? Those were also landscaped with palms. 

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11 minutes ago, Zone7Bpalmguy said:

@SeanK Do they still have the Bahama Breeze restaurants down your way? Those were also landscaped with palms. 

I85 x Pleasant Hill Rd. No tropical palms like the grand opening so many years back.

The exit before is Beaver Ruin Rd. I saw that the homeowner's Jelly Palm and Sylvester are recovered. Those were covered for the winter.  I passed on the wrong side to snap a photo.

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My brother lives in a rural area of Lebanon . He moved there about 8-10 years ago from here in Southern California . The climate he describes doesn’t seem very palmy. Harry

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On 8/25/2025 at 6:36 AM, SeanK said:

Hopefully they see mild winters for the next five.

Another chain known for palm trees is the Taco Cabaña. We had one on Piedmont Rd, northeast ATL inside the perimeter until 2014. The area was redeveloped some, restaurant and palms are long gone.

I miss Taco Cabana even though the one in Huntsville was hit or miss on whether you were gonna get sick. The shrimp Yucatan quesadilla was god tier though. 

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9 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I miss Taco Cabana even though the one in Huntsville was hit or miss on whether you were gonna get sick. The shrimp Yucatan quesadilla was god tier though. 

The food at the ATL location wasn't very good. Palm enthusiasts would meet there occasionally for lunch. Mainly to view the palms.

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Yeah, the selling point was the price and the margaritas were awful. 

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On 8/25/2025 at 12:31 AM, L.A.M. said:

What kind of palmetto are they?

They're just regular Sabal palmettos shipped in from Florida.

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6 hours ago, Fusca said:

They're just regular Sabal palmettos shipped in from Florida.

I figured but hoped otherwise - and really hope they see and heed my petition to play the long game instead of wasting their own money and potentially goading ignorant local government overreach.

I'm just a neurodivergent Middle Tennessean guy that's obsessively interested in native plants (especially evergreen trees/shrubs) from spruces to palms.

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21 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

My brother lives in a rural area of Lebanon . He moved there about 8-10 years ago from here in Southern California . The climate he describes doesn’t seem very palmy. Harry

Yeah, we can really probably only grow five known palm species, subspecies and cultivars long-term without protection in most of Tennessee, including Lebanon. All are native to southeastern and/or south-central North America, meaning they're naturally adapted to our erratic weather, unlike palms from western North America or other continents.

Rhapidophyllum hystrix (needle palm) - reliably cold-hardy to -5 degrees Fahrenheit

Sabal minor (dwarf palmetto) - reliably cold-hardy to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, but usually has an underground trunk. Also, the only palm species (probably) found naturally in Tennessee, although not known in the wild this far north in the state nor in Middle Tennessee.

Sabal brazoriensis (Brazoria palmetto) - reliably cold-hardy to 0 degrees Fahrenheit

Sabal minor subsp. Louisiana (Louisiana palmetto) - reliably cold-hardy to 5 degrees Fahrenheit but takes decades to push its trunk aboveground and stays short

Sabal 'Birmingham' (Birmingham palmetto) - reliably cold-hardy to 5 degrees Fahrenheit

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I'm just a neurodivergent Middle Tennessean guy that's obsessively interested in native plants (especially evergreen trees/shrubs) from spruces to palms.

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