Nice pics once again. I especially like those sabal minors (they have quite a bit of trunk on them) and the yuccas (not really a tropical look, but it gives me a tropical feel).

The pindos and sabals look flawless, and the live oaks look very welcoming! The hibiscus ont he side of the road are really nice too. Are those planted there, or actually growing in the wild?

Thanks for the response, yes, they are wild & grow especially abundant along the road side ditches.

I really enjoy your pictures! Those sabal minors are very pretty...makes me jealous of the ones that grow wild here, ours are so tangled and clumpy that they just look like mangled weeds. How old are those two minors?

I always like those southern pictures you send. Nice. I think those s. minor of the hatterus variety look nicer when the trunk isn't all exposed.

No matter what the zone charts say, their is a naturally definitive zone line that runs north of Wilminfton NC along the general cost and ends somewhere in New Bern NC where all these palms thrive out in the open areas just fine (granted cabbage palms need extra time to recover transplanting).

Once you are up by Greenville, there are much less of them and they perfer a southern exposure to thrive. What have you noticed?

Thanks, the minor on the left is a pop up from seed & i really can't recall how many years it's been but has been a speedy one.
The larger one is a transplant i found nearby that was a victim of a eroding shoreline. I hurricane cut it over three years ago & that is the result since that time.

Thanks, that sounds about right, except i would run that line up to Washington, NC & then start heading for the immediate coast as you go north. There are some very nice palms that have been in the Washington area for a good while & i notice that you don't get that coastal feel once you go much farther west.
PS There are some sabal palmetto & butia in Greenville proper that have a good many years under their belt & look very full i might add.

I'm sure there's planty scattered around. I do not know all the NC locales, I just notice they seem to perliferate well once you hit that southern invisible zone.

Great pic of the moss draped Longleaf, it's also our state tree here in Alabama and one of my favorites.

This photo i took several years ago here in Beaufort county in the longleaf woods has always been one of my favorates.
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Long leaf pines are beautiful! Someone in my neighborhood has one. About 5 years ago it was really small and probably only 3 feet, but now its rocketing up and its around 10 feet tall. They seem to be fully hardy by me, but we dont have any forests of them like in the south. They look pretty happy though.

Thanks for the pics.

All you need to do is walk through the longleaf woods one time, it's a great feeling for anyone that appreciates mother natures beauties to behold. In winter on a sunny day & about 55 degrees, there's nothing better to do!

Dixieboy, I'm guessing that pic was meant to go in the other thread? LOL ;)

It is a beautiful tree alright. I don't see very many of them with moss since they usually like the drier areas. There's plenty of longleaf forests in my area, it's neat to see the fire go through them and then see them green back up in the spring, especially when there is saw palmetto in the understory. Much of the old growth longleaf was cut and replaced with loblolly around here, but I notice lately that many landowners are going back to longleaf since it's resistant to pine beetles and rust.

Here's a controlled burn in a young stand. Notice some of them were leaned over by hurricane Ivan but still continued to grow.

They just did a controlled burn not long ago in the woods that i have pictured. The longleafs are on ancient sand dunes but yet the spanish moss is thick.

I had forget that i took this photo the other day & i dispise seeing woods clear cut as they are today but at least in this case they replanted with longleafs instead of like you say with those so called 'super loblolly's'.
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