Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias and green are suffused through

and green are suffused through the foliage

topped in mid-spring with large pocketbook-like flowers of creamy white flushed with burgundy

looking like a pink alien head with a white neck and a green speckled hood

Small pink and mauve flowers are held in clusters on slender stems that bounce in the wind above the clump of foliage in spring

While it will grow with less light

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias and green are suffused throughThanks to hardy palm grower Larry Green for sharing seed from the Sabal palmetto growing at his former family home in Mocksville, NC (1 hour southwest of Winston Salem). Larry tells us this Sabal palmetto was planted around 1980, and survived the mega death winter of 1984 85 in NC. Larry's palm was grown from seed he collected years earlier from a Sabal palmetto at a motel in Fayetteville, NC, which also still survives. The broad fronds are less