With permission, I am posting a link to a YouTube video (shot with an iPhone, Bill--hint, hint) by our own John Lodes last week (December 11). He and local nursery owner Steve Owens ( http://www.bustaniplantfarm.com/ ) went in search of the famous McCurtain County Sabal minor.
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tWiaBkQEc
Enjoy!
Almost strange, doesn't look like an area where palms would grow.
But there they are, big as life.
And beautiful specimens they are.
And nobody's got a shovel :error:
Barb
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Bump
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Looks like what you see from the car driving down I-95 south. The cusp of the subtropics.