This Sabal palmetto has been growing in Bridgeport since 2009. Supposedly the northernmost large palm growing on the east cost. Normally found south of NC.
Picture from Aug 2024.
This is the first tree of this species in our database, as well as the first palm tree. This is a USDA zone 8 tree growing in zone 7. This tree was grown from seed from collected in Sun City Center, FL, in 2005. It was planted outside in its current location in 2009. This tree suffered die-back over the 2017-2018 winter and its height was reduced from about 8 feet.It is in a favorable microclimate, very close to a south-facing masonry wall, and is about 500 ft from Long Island Sound.
http://oak.conncoll.edu:8080/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=226219