heres the story...me and my family took a trip to panama city, florida in may of 2009. sabal palmetto ( cabbage palms ) were planted alot there and so i took 5 seeds from one home with me. So at home i threw the seeds in small clay pots outside on the deck and not long after one sprouted. i didnt know at the time that palm seeds may take months and even over a year to sprout so i threw the rest of the seeds in the yard thinking they are surely dead. winter came and went and the other day i was sitting on the front porch and noticed 2 green stiff spears sticking out of the black mulch in the flower bed. It was the cabbage palm seeds i had threw away the year before. I was amazed because the seeds had survived a USDA hardiness zone 7 ( and sometimes 7b ) winter. And i did not plant them i threw them down in the flower bed. My question is how did this happen because usually when cabbage palms are planted here they are mature and seedlings would be more cold tender right?
