Although many species, such as Sabal minor are US natives, sabal palms are often overlooked as an important element of a native plant garden. Forever pushing the limits of cold hardiness to bring new plants to you, we have assembled a group of cold-tolerant sabal palms for sale from various seed sources. You can grow sabal palms in a mixed border for their dramatic bold foliage or as a mass naturalistic planting.
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Some subterranean-trunked sabal palms can be grown as far north as Zone 6 which includes northern Oklahoma, Kentucky, southern Pennsylvania, and coastal Massachusetts. Sabal palm trees prefer warm summers and will not survive well in cool summer climates such as in the Pacific Northwest (try trachycarpus instead). In all cold climates, we recommend growing the palms indoors for a season planting outdoors. Winter mulch protection for the first few years is always helpful in colder climates. Some Sabal species, such as the shrub Sabal minor, grow as marginal plants near swamps in warmer locations, while the tree form Sabal palmetto and dwarf Sabal etonia grow in drier soils. When you're ready to buy Sabal palms for your garden, check our offerings of sabal palms for sell below.
Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!
We are pleased to offer seedlings from an extremely vigorous natural stand of Sabal minor in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, just west of Folsom, Arkansas, near the Red River. According to the late Logan Calhoun (our seed source), seedlings of this population have survived temperatures of -24 degrees F in Wichita and are producing seed. Sabal minor 'McCurtain' will be great for experimental gardeners who like to push the hardiness limits...our offerings are second-year seedlings. These grow much faster than the typical Sabal minor. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
This seed strain of the southeast native Sabal palmetto was collected by retired City of Raleigh horticulturist Noel Weston on a trip through Tifton, Georgia after the 1980s freeze that killed most of the palmettos. Noel found an undamaged specimen at a Tifton hotel and collected seed. We gathered our seed from an original offspring, which has been growing in Raleigh since the early 1990s. Expect a 10' trunk in 15 years. In Zone 7, we recommend growing the plant to a larger size before planting it into the ground, or plant early and mulch very well until it gets established. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
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