Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias At the northern end of

At the northern end of the range Aspidistra 'Okame' may suffer from winter burn which is easily relieved by a spring haircut

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

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

Although Adiantum caudatum emerges late here after a hard winter

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias At the northern end ofThanks 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