The cabbage palm, Sabal palmetto, is a native landscape workhorse, with a lot of strengths and a few notable weaknesses. Join us in an exploration of what cabbage palms can and cannot do in the landscape. We’ll review the role of the cabbage palm in natural landscapes and how the palm’s natural behaviors translate into suburban and urban situations. In addition to updates on the latest thinking regarding diseases and pruning, the instructor will present illustrations of how these palms can be use in the landscape, review the various options for acquiring cabbage palms (seedlings, wild dug, and regenerated), as well as showcasing some of the more unusual variants that appeal to collectors. Along the way you’ll learn some surprising information about celebrities and cabbage palms, the cabbage palm’s unique role in our revolutionary war, and why extraterrestrials may know more about cabbage palms than your neighbors do.

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)

Florida DBPR Board of Landscape Architecture: Course#: 0011793
Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers: Course #: 9629710
FNGLA: 1 CEU for FNGLA certified horticulture and landscape professionals.
ISA Certified Arborists: 1, BCMA-Science: 1, TW Climber Specialist: 1, TW Aerial Lift Specialist: 1, Municipal Specialist: 1

TOPICS COVERED

• Cabbage palm basics
• The cabbage palm in natural systems
• Translating the palms natural characteristics to urban/suburban setting
• Strengths
• Where they excel
• Weakness
• Top ten reasons NOT to use cabbage palms
• Examples of cabbage palm use
• Disease update
• Pruning updated
• Special cabbage palms

Fee:$28

This session is sponsored by the Native Plant Horticulture Foundation