Great pics!! I love the spanish moss scenes and the washys, sabals, and pindos really look great also! Its amazing how quickly things come from looking like the north to looking like the south!
Thanks for sharing!
-Alex

dixieboy,
It's good to here from you again,and the wonderful pictures you always take.I'm surprised those Washy's thriving there.The biggest Sabal minors I've ever seen is the ones you take pictures of.Are they Sabal minor Hatteras?Love all the Sabal Palmettos and Butia Capitatas in the pictures.I noticed the pictures were taken in 2010.Do they all still look as good as they did in the pictures since last winter?Don't wait so long to post more pictures again,I always enjoy seeing them.
Randy

beautiful pics! way to represent the n.c. coastal regions and show them off... you have a very nice micro-climate down there and very nice palms! and like Butiaman said don't wait so long to post your good pics. they are always great. keep us posted on how the winter is down there also. -Justin in Vb

Its a nice treat to have you post these pics from the palm border growing zone areas. They are out in the open and survive.

Thanks Greg, the cold hardy palms are no problem in the coastal areas & gives your landscape the look we palm nuts enjoy. Speaking of agave in the other post, i planted ours as a pup but wish i had provided a little more drainage, not sandy like Hatteras, here on our property. -Carl
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It looks like your agave doing GREAT to me! Its HUGE! Definitely post some pics when it blooms which has to be soon! Ive never seen a pic of an agave in bloom in NC, but their are so many healthy large Agaves their that Im sure there have to be some that are old enough to bloom.
Thanks for sharing
-Alex

Thanks Alex, here are a few that i snapped in November here at our place, the cow pasture is a few miles out the road from us.

Just before sunup.
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Looking out our kitchen door.
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Under our live oaks.
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A little fall color in our woods.
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wow what a diffference 3 hours east of me makes!!

Where are you located?

Great pics!! I really think that zone 8 is the beginning of a great zone for palms. Its amazing what a difference one zone makes!!
Thanks for sharing!
-Alex

i am located in greensboro,nc a zone 7 and i travel alot for work so ive been to your area before,i start seeing thriving palms when i get to raleigh area.I know thats the border of zone 8 pass that a lil bit then i start seeing spanish moss.I see spanish moss and hardy palms in fayettville also.I also seen 30 foot washingtonias planted in the lake norman area and still amazes me how they survive.

My sister & niece are in Greensboro, takes me 3hrs.& 50 mins. from our place to there.