Show us your Sabal

TerdalFarm · 2011-08-07T13:54:39Z

This time of year, our palms are looking about as good as they will all year. By next month, we'll be busy discussing how to keep them alive through winter (and I for one cannot wait for frost! :lol:). It is so darn hot I am stuck inside each afternoon. So, I thought I'd try to start a new idea: "show us your ___" where we do a different palm genus each week. We can share our photos. We might get ideas of new palms to try for next year out of it. Please, "reply" with your photos of the palm genus of the week. I'm starting with Sabal. No surprise -- I love Oklahoma's native palm genus. I took photos of my four little Sabal this morning. All survived our coldest winter lows ever -- -30 C (-22 F). All had electric heat tape, water bottles, hay for mulch; all but the S. palmetto also had a palm hut. Photo one is my current favorite -- Sabal mexicana. Blue, costaplamate and fast growing. I bought two cheap in Ft. Worth Texas in 2009 and planted them in Spring 2010. One succumbed to winter 2011 but this one has come roaring back. Photo 2 is what is left of the magnificent Sabal palmetto W bought for me in Spring 2010. The main plant died mysteriously in Fall 2010, but this little guy came back from the dead in Spring 2011. Photo 3 shows the Sabal "Lou" from Amazing Gardens on the left and the free bonus NE Texas Sabal minor on the right. <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZNvP2Bf6RfsSXbBh3ueiLQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MaH6Qxx3pYg/Tj6cO2YqK2I/AAAAAAAAKNo/UxX_NZlf7Zs/s800/DSC_0002.JPG" height="531" width="800" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/August2011InTheGarden?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">August 2011 in the garden</a></td></tr></table><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4EkG5JJCI1mBF7XHvFig7g?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HhLZxoG_hyg/Tj6cP61yTvI/AAAAAAAAKNs/h_9AI-7knxI/s800/DSC_0003.JPG" height="531" width="800" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/August2011InTheGarden?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">August 2011 in the garden</a></td></tr></table><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WkQBqaK-HU3fQLcJ62I0SA?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-sjb7ExZTc-c/Tj6cTWtgCvI/AAAAAAAAKN4/B5Jkfy-BVQc/s800/DSC_0008.JPG" height="531" width="800" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/August2011InTheGarden?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">August 2011 in the garden</a></td></tr></table>

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Erik I have a few Sabals planted and seedlings in pots. I`ll post soon when I get a new dig. camera. I sure hope attitudes change re: full moon Sabal Maurtiformis as palapa roofs. Superstition maybe the demise of said palm? Barb glad that S. riverside is doing well for you. I got those seeds because they were able to trunk in a desert climate. I thought they would be a good fit for us here. Slooow as molasses but someday.

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