Hey dixieboy,
Great pictures of your sabal minors.I'm always amazed at the sabal minors you have.Is the first picture your biggest one?You sure show how versatile they are,they must be your favorite palm.They don't show any damage from the crazy winters I think the whole east coast has had the last two years.I have 2 sabal minors that seem to grow very very slow.How long does it take for a sabal minor to get as big as the one in the first picture?Do you know what type of sabal minors they are?Mine always have brown tips on the fronds for some reason.I want a sabal birmingham but they grow very slow too.I always enjoy seeing your pictures dixieboy.

Butiaman, i wish i could remember what year i planted the minor in the first pic, it was a seedling i dug from a nearby group & has progressed nicely. the minors are all locals except pic #5 , it's a brazoria minor from east Texas. Including a windmill volunteer that popped up in my group.
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Looks like they are all doing very well. I always enjoy seeing your Sabal Minor photos... Sabal Minor is 1 of my favorites, if not favorite. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Jay, they give palm folks, trouble free versatilely.

My favorite one is the one with the trunk. How long does it take to grow a trunk. I have two sabal minors and two sabal lousianas that made it through their first winter with little damage

SIP, minors are just like any other palms, some have more vigor than others & grow'in conditions that really suits their fancy goes a long way. Trunking does involve many years though especially since it usually doesn't & so to give a good estimate would be hard to do.

super minors dixie! best i have ever seen, large and soo full! great pics. what do your washies look like now? great pics! post more soon. -Justin in Vb

Dixie, I also have to say that those are the best looking Sabal minors I have ever seen (especially like the one in the first pic). The ones here in Central Florida look far less robust to me, now I want one!

Justin, thanks, ha, washies here look as they usually look this time of year, very toasty!! lol

Williamr, thanks, love the s.minors & the way they have performed for me.

Hey dixieboy,
Do you remember where you got your Sabal brazoria palm from?I wish I could find one half that size.I think I saw some pictures of you on Gary's Nursery website.You was showing some of the real big Sabal minors in Palmico county N.C.The picture shows you standing in front of a ten foot Sabal minor.Are those known as the Blue Stem palmettos?If that is you in some of those pictures those Sabal minors are huge,because you don't look like a short man,and they tower over you.They look like Sabal minors on steroids or something,maybe it's something in the water that makes them grow so large.Your pictures of the ones in your yard has had me searching for big Sabal minors and Sabal brazoria palms for sale all day.
Thanks,Randy

Randy, the brazoria came from Gary's & was a small container size when i planted it. Yes, Gary & i have been on many minor hunts here in the area. They are called Drawf palmetto & blue stem but sabal minor is the most correct name. Shoot, these here don't compare to those huge ones in s. Lou-sana & e.Texas.

What I would give to have a sabal minor the size of those in my yard! Do you find the Brazoria to be a fast grower for you? Does it appear to be as hardy as your minors?

Islandbreeze, thanks, the minors are a pleasure & most of all they were raised here since seedlings except one. Yes, the brazoria minor has been faster than the locals & i have not seen any kind of cold damage at all. I do have my doubts that they would turn out to be as cold hardy as the locals if really put to the test though, they be'in from a warmer environment on the gulf coast has to have something to do with it.