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To be honest, I think checking the top 1" of soil is not enough. Very often I've seen the top 1" dry, but there was still a lot of water below and the plant didn't need watering.

Being indoors it’s not going to need a lot of water. If it was outdoors in summer for sure a bit of water, it’s the biggest mistake growing indoors and overwatering, very common. Just stop watering for now and try to warm the soil up to get the palms metabolic rate up so it drinks a bit more, cut of the dead leaves. The top one of soil should be dry that’s a good indicator, the old way to check was to place your finger in the soil and if the top one inch of soil is wet then no water for indoor plants. Drainage is another key to success as well indoors. Good luck and keep that watering can in the cupboard for a while.

It's in THE MOST perfect spot for one of my Colocasia Redemptions. Maybe one day I'll feel good enough to go out there with a crowbar and the sledge. Or go rent a truck and sign up for all the extra insurance a la Planes Trains and Automobiles.

About 20 years back I pounded a piece of rebar into the ground to support a plant. I can't get it out. I've dug down about 8 inches and will go out again with a cutoff wheel.

Too wet they love good drainage!

Did they obstruct the sidewalk at all?

Straight up biophobia. Very common in countries like the US.

That sound kind of like stuff an old lady would do, enforcing the right of way. Who else would take the time or care that much. HOA types.

Oh it's concreted in, I've dug around the concrete. I miss my younger days when I could break it loose and pick it up. Anyway as far as the projectile goes I can't tell if you're trying to talk me into or out of trying that 😂

Sometimes it's hard to tell what it is. Looks alot like a Mauritiiformis, the slender trunk, upright boots and hanging leaflets. I guess the difference is more visible in the growing point area as well as some other areas that I can't identify.

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