Sago Palm renews itself in the Florida sunshine

Sago Palms are big here also.  I'm not a huge lover of them but I do LOVE that photo!!

Robert- I have three Sago's in my front flower beds and I am ever quite so fond of them. They have produced new palms many times more that I would have expected this year alone. I actually brought them with me from my  old house where I had them mercilessly bound in pots and they just love being planted in their new conditions. They have each tripled in size and enjoy watching them grow just in the same fashion as you have pictured here!

Shellee,

We had sago palms in Champion Forrest, and they had babies every year.  Only here in Florida did I learn how to care for them, I think....  Here, when a new burst of branches opens up, you trim away the older branches, maybe leaving just the last row at the top, but never more than three deep.  Make sense?  They seem to grow taller, faster that way.

There is something about sago palms that everyone should be aware of --

they produce walnut-sized bright red seeds that are extremely poisonous to pets and small children.  If a small animal ingests one of these seeds, there is very little that a veterinarian can do. 

So it is best to grow sagos in an area of your yard where pets are not fenced in. 

This is a bit off subject but it is something that I just learned this past year when my daughter went to work at a vet's clinic and a small puppy died from eating a sago seed.  And I have had sagos in my yard for almost 30 years and had not seen one of those seeds before.