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I am not asking for a snake convention here, so yes I do mind them coming after other little critters in my yard. If I keep the ground relatively clear the Owls and hawks will keep the snakes and their prey out of my yard. I am a big fan of the raptors, do what I can to make it their kind of yard with making roosting spots. I get rabbits, no problem, they don't hide in piles of dead matter, but I don't want the snakes, some of which are venomous. My lab attacks snakes in his yard he is territorial. I don't want him getting bit by a water moccasin or bringing to me any dead critters.

I used to be able to get them here in florida but the smaller specialty nurseries that still exist dont carry them and they will probably never be offered in big box stores. I had 2 small ones killed quickly in 2010 @ 28F. I also had a small wodyetia same size that looked like it was going to make it, but it declined after a month and kicked it. The foxy ladies really crumpled up after one night, total brown. Being an F1 cross means that all siblings will not be the same in cold tolerance. Some will lean veitchia some will lean wodyetia. I have my doubts that you can expect better hardiness than a wodyetia, its a roll of the dice. There is a nice tall one in tampa at the zoo, dark green and probably 40 foot or more. F1 hybrids generally do not have consistency in expressed genetics. An S2 would be needed to get consistently expressed genetics and that would mean the F1 would have to be fertile.

Yes me too!! I would need to dig again those pictures from my old hard drive! Here are some of them: Such a wonderful and colorful palmtree 🌴😀 JB

Hard to go wrong with Dypsis / Chrysalidiocarpus . It seems a few species have found their way to my garden in the last couple of years. I don’t have this one , but truth be told , I don’t have enough room for all the species in the Dypsis genera . Harry

I already have huge piles of palm leaves around my garden I mulch what I can, but with a garden the size of mine it’s easier to pick them up and use mulch that I bring in. I don’t mind the critters, it’s the big leaf sheaths that look unsightly and take forever to break down. The mulch I get is from the electrical company’s that do vegetation maintenance for the power lines at a bargain price, so I just get it whenever they have it. Eventually I will have enough to make soil and use that as good layer of mulch. My sandy soil eats it up like it’s going out of fashion (the e weigh calls it the sand monster that eats anything) just look at any permaculture garden and you can see the difference with mulch or any bare patch of earth once mulched it transforms the soil. If you want your plants to grow with little effort mulch is the way to go!

Your post caught my eye!! O. K . where’s my shovel . Time to plant some palms at @happypalms . I’m in for a palm fix. I have a nice Dypsis Cabadae that needs planting , you just motivated me. Harry I have a nice , shady spot for this guy ! “Be free , spread your roots little palm.”

I had one too close to the house that I edited for that reason. It grew so fast and so big I was stunned. I started thinking about the trunks dyeing one at a time and them falling on my roof. Mine had 8 trunks of 6-8" caliper and was over 25' tall and not slowing down to my eye. One winter we had a freeze and it burned like almost every other leaf so it was pretty ugly then. Not very leaf hardy compared with my other palms, they are reportedly more cold tolerant than many of my palms, but less leaf hardy. Trimming the dead leaves was difficult with all the trunks and leaves. I decided the dead trunk falling thing was too much risk too close to the house, so I edited it and have one less problem these days. If I had known how big it would get I probably would not have planted it at that site.

sounds like this was a naturally occurring hybrid. Any attempt to do manual cross pollination in the past? JD

wind, rain would just blow/wash leaves away here. I could use chopped palm leaves as the stems would be heavy enough to hang around. Yes the mulch is digested into nutients like humic acid and it helps to keep a healthy microbiome which is weak in sandy soil. And the faster digestion means more nutrients, but ultimately much of it washes away in rain. So we are needing something like 6-8 cubic yards for 220 square meters of garden and that lasts two grow seasons. I have no doubt the digestion gives fast growth, I see 35'+ tall bismarckia after 15 years from a 3 gallon size. But its also a "mulching treadmill". I don't want big piles of dead palm leaves on my 0.3 ac lot, so critters can have a home. There are plenty of critters wandering around here, I want to keep the numbers down. Chipping palm leaves is not going to be productive they are too soft for chipping. I'm still thinking how I might be able to use them. I have 40+ mature palms dropping at least 7 leaves per year, some as high as 20+ leaves per year(P Rupicola).

They can get a bit more than anticipated , like Arenga Engleri . Sometimes that’s what we want , privacy or natural screen. They do a bit of self thinning when they flower . I cut the flowering stems out and that keeps them controlled. Harry

Nice job growing this in New York City! I assume that's a south facing wall? What a wonderful microclimate!

They do love a bit of water, and shade. A big clump is a bit difficult to keep in order. I thin out the suckers on my one so it doesn’t get out of control. Richard

You need monostachya, I hear that’s cool tolerant!

comparison between the pinnules of radicalis and radicalis hybrid,shorter and wider hybrids

I was gifted some seeds of this palm by @palmtreesforpleasure and what a lovely gift indeed. Definitely looking forward to getting some in the garden.

I said it before and I will say it again lucky Hawaii growers!

We had discussed the investment in the tree lopping project, it hurts when you do all that work only to have it smashed to bits by a falling tree, I have so many large gum trees on my property it’s bound to happen again for me . At least you get a chance to rebuild with a little hindsight, good luck!

That’s growing palms for you, I just shrug of winter, i could hardly call my winter a real winter. Mind you though my Calyptrocalyx micholitzii thinks different about it then I do!

I was growing a variegated one, that is until this cane grub decided it was time for a feed!

That’s the great benefit of mulch, it feeds the soil. I often get asked do you weed your garden, no I don’t t have to the layer of mulch stops the weeds. Mulch a symbiotic relationship happening right under our feet!

That’s the one, and it’s free!

One top ornamental palm, you won’t regret planting that one!

Another macrozamia native to my area in sunny Australia. Check out Dalmorton near Grafton NSW Australia, it’s gods country out there and very isolated.

Quality grown 👍

I love it good to see, and that mogy has an awesome personality about him or her just by the look on that face. He’s or she not giving anything away, except don’t muck with my palms🤣