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Originally posted by lifesaver
You can have the palms, ya just gotta take care of them. It looks like shit to see a nice palm that still has all the dead fronds hanging on it for years.
The sego palm sucks tho. All sharp and people always forget how fast they grow and put them right by their front doors. Then its like ya got in a cat fight every time ya go to their house.
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Sagos grow VERY slowly, they are the slowest growing of the palm trees. It takes them forever to get to any kind of real height. And if you do find them at 5ft-6ft tall....you can bet your ass that they cost somebody a lot of money.
I actually had the pleasure of working on the largest Sago Palm on record for the state of Florida at a Botanical Gardens by the name of Kannapaha. I trimmed all the spiny leaves off of it and made way for the new ones. It was one of the most beautiful trees Ive ever seen.
Ive always had a passion for Botany and an understanding of plants and their siginifcant uses. I don't know if it comes from living in Florida or what, but knowing the names of plants when I see them and knowing (if they have any) their medicinal uses always fascinated me. When an opportunity arose for me to donate my time to a Botanical Gardens center, I took it and volunteered there for a whole summer. I worked 8 hours a day, learning all the different plants, trees, flowers, to studying the turtles that layed their eggs in the turtle nesting center they had to assisting in the Harvesting of Alligator eggs on the site with the Univeristy. I had so much fun and my tan was awesome.
Here are some pics from the gardens I'm talking about where I volunteered:
