Nice! Looks like it had a ton of growth and these are considered some pretty slow growing palms.

Good luck, they look great!

Thanks, tropicalzone7, lot's of water, fertilizer and heat seemed to do the trick with these. I was surprised myself.

On a side note, some Slash Pines that I planted have grown over 2 ft in 1 yr!

Amazing what the warm Florida sun all year round will do!

I really like the southern species of pines. ive seen some long leaf pines here and they grow pretty fast (maybe a foot to a foot and a half of growth a year) and I think I have seen some slash pines also over here, but Im not as familiar with pines as I am palms.
That florida sun can turn anything into a huge healthy plant! The humidity and heat of the summer must really help these reach there full potential with some fertilizer too! But all you hear about sabals is how slow they are. That pic definitely isnt showing a very slow growing palm!

Good luck!

Great healthy palms. They are spaced nicely as well.

I would guess that a sabal palmetto and butia would grow well by you.

You palms look very happy, I love sabal minors can never have enough

Yes, our summers, if you can get enough water, tend to make things grow like mad! My Sabal Palmettos are a little slower than my Minors, but they grow more than one might think. Sun seems to help out a lot also. I've seen Sabal Palmettos out in the woods, under big Oaks and they do tend to grow very slow, the ones out in the sun light, grow much faster! My Sabal Minors put out a lot of growth last year. Here's a few pics of some other stuff that I'm growing...

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15 footer (overall) transplanted a few months back and starting to push out some growth.

Another Sabal Louisiana, about the same size as the other.

A Sabal Minor with a young Sabal Palmetto in the background.

Here's one of the same Sabal Minor showing the flower spike coming up. Can you see the coffee grounds all over it? This one had an attack of scale last fall. It's now scale free after several treatments of pouring the grounds, mixed with water, all over the palm and putting quite a bit around it and in the center where the spear pushes up.

Here's 1 of 7 Slash Pines that I have growing. Look at all of that new growth! It's about 8ft tall right now with all of the new growth.

Nice pics! That slash pine has some impressive new growth. And Im glad the coffee grounds worked to get rid of the scale on your sabal minor.

Good luck!

There is a well established longleaf pine on my block--at least I believe it's longleaf and not slash as I cannot imagine a pine with longer needles. For whatever reason, they are rarely planted around me and I do not see them sold in local nurseries. Yet here's a tree that apparently was here for several decades. We had massive snowstorms and WIND storms that brought down big, (then leafless) deciduous trees and this one went through fine. Long leaf is probably a good, solid indicator tree for zone 7 (about the minimum zone for growing some of the hardier palms without elaborate protection). Thanks for the pics.

Your palms look amazing Jay, I can't believe how fast everything grows down there!