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Is it Livistona decora aka ribbon palm.

These look much better than the specimens at Four Arts in PB, which do not have that dark red! Beautiful palms!

Spines do deter. I'm on a busy sidewalk and have had fronds messed with before the palms got taller. Some were cut off with a machete, others were bent at the petiole. I put up a surveillance sign once when I thought it would happen again with newly planted stuff. I figured it was pedestrians angry at being touched by a palm. When working in the yard, I have been yelled at by people travelling down the sidewalk... 'Cut these leaves!' ... answered promptly with "No." Ryan

There are never enough palms

Saw this specimen today on my way to pick up grandchildren from school:

Nice one, many shade loving plants means many a canopy plant, that and 20 years to create the shade! Looks like you will be planting a lot more palms, my garden has plenty of understory that’s for sure!

Might be time for a vigalante group chat, with a wonder of the streets at night!

Perhaps you could eat the gopher! He ate your bizzie it seems only fair! Richard

Do I see a Sabal Mauritiiformis on the first picture? Shows a lot of chararistics.

The smallest and stoutest of the ‘Hurricane Palms’, with cool reins that connect the leaflets. 40 Seedlings, ready for individual pots. My small ones were burned at 27F, but have new green leaves coming out. $30/ all 40, plus Shipping, Spaghum, padded Envelope or Box. Beachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Still going strong, thanks to our mild winter. I'm curious to see how it does above the roof!

It was a great trip, we saw some very nice palms, especially the Lanonia's. And really fun catching up with old friends and then meeting a few new ones. Jeff

Assuming this is not anchored into the ground with a column of concrete, there may be other ways to get it off the ground if you don't want to just cut it off below grade with a sawzall, One way that has worked for me is to get two metallic two hole straps like below similar in size to your post which I suspect is either 1-1/4" or 1-1/2" or 2". Take a piece of scrap lumber like a 2X6 or 4x4 or similar, and put the two hole straps around your TV post and secure them onto the piece of lumber so that it's like 4-6" above ground level, use some larger screws like #10 and drive the straps/collars real tight. Now you have a piece of lumber oriented horizontally above the ground wedged tight to the post. If you have a bottle jack or a floor jack, put that under this piece of wood, and sit under it another piece of wood and just start jacking. It should slowly pull the post loose as you jack up. This works for me a few times without needing a truck to pull it which in itself can be a problem if a chain or rope snaps suddenly it could create a mean projectile.

Plant an Acrocomia

I have a bunch of plantings along the outside edge of my property, I came home and found most of the palms damaged. Someone went and broke 5 fronds off my triangle palm, 3 fronds off both Chinese fan palms, 3 fronds off both Fishtail palms, and three fronds off a robolini. All outward facing fronds looks like someone just grabbed each fronds and folded it backwards. At first I thought it was a vehicle that drove over the sidewalk and hit these palms but that can't be because there are one way signs, no boat trailer signs by the curb and these palms are at least 5-7 feet inside these signs. Puzzling.

Our summers are always cloudless for months and months, NO breeze with temperatures in upper 90s to low 100s on average. I take any humid day near the water any day. But get used to record breaking temperatures and droughts in Houston . The drought is moving to the SE. We're already in a drought since 2022 and according to meteorologists, there's absolutely no change in weather pattern for South Central /Central Texas. I'm not sure about East Texas.

No terminé de escribir jaja No son demasiado pequeñas ?

C onilahensis and beccariopheonix Madagascariensis going in the ground. Many shade lovers to plant but not enough shade

Yea , I have one that would put up quite a fight if I tried to clean the trunk! Harry First year in the ground! It is just starting to harden off after cutting the brown fronds off . Full sun , south facing slope. In another year I will be able to tell you if gophers like them or not.🤬

Nice update and bump. Thank you for sharing your jungle. Harry

How about a silver / blue Brahea ? Gopher ate my Bizzy ! Harry ‘Brahea Armata , actually more silver/green like my Butia. Oh well…. Butia Oderata No blue in these two but plenty of silver!

I recently moved to a new downsized house in Seminole, FL from St Petersburg. I now have a blank slate to plant again. I'd really like to plant at least one Beccariophoenix alfredii. Seminole is located just to the northwest of St Pete (up on the hill, 42 feet above sea level). I'm hoping for a local grower, but I will drive (day trip) to pick one up if necessary. If anyone knows where I could possibly buy one, I'd appreciate it. I'll even consider having it shipped if anyone has had good experiences with that. I'd like to get one that's in at least a 3 gallon pot. We didn't have a freeze at my new house (38F was the low) this winter, but I heard most of inland Florida was really cold (teens and low 20's) so this may be an impossible find this year. I figured I'd just give it a shot. Thanks in advance. Jim Cameron