Excellent! I'm looking forward to the photos.
Those palms are indeed hard to find, even down here. My S. "Birmingham" are from seed; "Brazoria" will probably have to wait until I can drive to south Texas (maybe March). So, it is great you found a Canadian source. --Erik

Paul thats awsome dude!!!!! Was ther eany problems with shipping?

edit**** just checked the site out.... looks like im going to be a every poor person come spring!!

That's great news! You've been looking for a Birmy for some time now. You'll be surprised how fast that actually grow Paul, mine put out 5 full fronds since Feb. and almost has 6 open, not bad I'd say. My regular minors only put out 2-3 SLOWWW! Is your brazoria that amazing gun metal blue color? They are beautiful, I'll sure be on the hunt for some of them next year!

Can't wait to see the pictures.

Bill

You may need to send your S.Birmingham to Bill to see fast growth 😉
I have heard a lot of people complain about their growth speed but..........
they are totally worthy and maybe you will have one of the happy ones that grows!

Brazoria is a great Sabal!

I have seen the least cold damage on mine of any Sabal I have grown,
even though it's only growing strap leaves,I find this very impressive
for such a young palm.

Also,as Bill mentioned-beautiful blue leaves,even on my other smaller seedlings
same with the McCurtain,man I have way to many seedlings!!!!!!! 😯

Did you get them delivered or did you go there??

They have canna Musifolia 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈

Paul that`s great you could pick up those palms from southcoast gardens. I went through their catalog list and they only showed 3 gal. S.minor for $40. What are their prices and sizes for the S.birmingham and S.texensis?

John

Kevin is willing to drive plants to Toronto, so he dropped them off here. So shipping was free...

John- I think that the palms are something like 50 + tax. They aren't listed because they're in limited quantities. I know for a fact that he is going to be going back to Gary's in NC this spring, and certainly will be picking up more of these palms.

Sabal x texensis 'Brazoria palm'
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Sabal 'birmingham'
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The blue of the Brazoria is nice, I think the McCurtain that I have are a more 'rich' blue colour!!

Sorry for the quality of the pics, the palms are sitting in my kitchen until I move them to the greenhouse for the winter.

That is one hell of a deal for those sabal`s. I`ll have to keep Southshore nursery on my radar for next spring. Thanks for sharing the pics and info. Here is a California nursery selling 15 gal. queen palms for $25 and 24 gal. for $125 shipping worldwide. I`ve asked the seller if they have other palms,yuccas and if they come with a phyto certificate. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320574688510

John

Nice looking palms,picked up a couple needles for 40$ at southcoast this summer,was cheaper than their cataloge price.I too noticed he had more palm than he advertised too!!!I will be heading their come spring to shop and it is only 2 minits from the beach and restaurants in turkey point,love the daytrips!!!

Paul,
thanks for the photos. Good looking palms and a very good price on them. --Erik

Paul,
They were worth waiting for! Nice size, great price!
My money's on the Brazoria to win the blue contest in, say, 5 years.
(Unless your next palm is a Copernicia). 😆

Will have a look at the southcoast site.
Let us know if he ever wants to drive out to the west coast.

Barb

Wow paul they look really good and healthy. Grats on the deal!!! Alll of his prices ar reasonable, and some are a steal!!!!

Good job, Paul!

I myself drove there in June and was overwhelmed by the selection.... SO, I bought a Brazoria (very blue in the middle, if you check a couple of websites, you'll be amazed by its eventual size; a leaf can easily be 1.5 M in diameter....), 3 large lagerstroemias Tonto and a deep red one, one large Trachy, an Eucalyptus gunnii (still growing and blue like steel... well, so far we have had only -2 C), Gardenias Kleim's hardy and an even hardier one, sorry, I forgot its name. Next year - if I have noney for it - I am going to order 50 tea plants from him - tea being my favourite drink. He is very knowledgable and quite honest; he showed me his own Tonto which he overwintered in the open; no frostbite up till its protection line and above it, well, it had to re-grow.

Good luck Paul!!!!
Rob