01-17-2009, 07:57 PM
cnw1961 Wrote:Russ, is this the kind of dwarf palmetto you are talking about? <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/39908/">http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/39908/</a><!-- m -->
Heart of the South makes very good kits of palm trees, among them a palmetto. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://hartofthesouth.com/">http://hartofthesouth.com/</a><!-- m --> You can get kits for trees or just the fronds. I think it should be possible to model these dwarf palmettos using the Heart of the South palmetto fronts. I definitely want to have some small palmettos (or dwarf palmettos?) on my layout.
The ones I saw in Florida were probably younger than the one in the pic. They just had a thick, rough trunk and fronds at the top, but none growing out the sides like the one in the pic.