I guess it's the palm version of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," but early last Spring, I decided that I needed to take a road trip to Central North Carolina to purchase a Sabal Palmetto, var. Birmingham. Actually I bought two. And God did I drive...the round trip was 750 miles total - which of course I did in a day.
One's in the front yard, the other's in that back, and both did well this winter with plastic protection and the slightest bit of heating. Neither had any cold damage, and both are pushing up new fronds right now.
The hope is that these palms might have inherited some of the cold tolerance of their parent plant, which survived many a cold night in Birmingham, Alabama. The plan is to protect them through two more winters and then give it a go sans heat. Will enclose a photo or two in another posting.
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