Around 2000, a friend asked me if I wanted to try to save this old multi-stem Sabal minor that was growing next to an old house in downtown New Bern. This clump of minors had been just surviving here in the almost pure sand for many yaers.
The house had been purchased by the church next door which had plans for some major changes for the property and the old palm was not wanted.
In 2008 the Sabal minor clump has turned into a very healthy specimen over six feet tall and nine feet wide.
It is now partly shaded by a Trachycarpus Nainital.
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Gary Hollar