What Is Your Favorite "Scrubby" Palm?

[PalmTreeDude]

What is your favorite palm that tends to be scrubby and more low lying (typically) in habitat? Mine is the Sabal minor, simply because I love the looks of them and because they are hardy here. What is yours? It does not have to be hardy! 

[PalmatierMeg]

Probably a well grown Rhapidophyllum hystrix. Dark green and beautiful.

[kinzyjr]

Hard to pick just one, but all of mine are natives: Rhapidophyllum hystrix, sabal minor, serenoa repens, sabal etonia.  All bulletproof here and, in some areas of the country, rhapidophyllum hystrix and sabal minor are the only palms that will grow.

[NickRB223]

Serenoa for me. Especially the silver. Just love the look of a big saw.

[Jubaea_James760]

All of those are great. I'd like to threw in Brahea Decumbens as another one of my favs.

[cm05]

Chamaerops humulis ‘Vulcano’ is my favorite.

[Josue Diaz]

I would say my favorite might be brahea decumbens seen here at Doomsdave's place. Mine is still a ways off from looking like this yet. 

i just picked up a blue serenoa repens from Kevin Weaver and I like this one also.

[Henoh]

For me they are Rhapidophyllum hystrix, Sabal minor and diferent forms of Chamaerops.

[Pal Meir]

[Pal Meir]

[Stevetoad]

arenga hookeriana

[NC_Palms]

Hmm this is a hard question, but my favorites have to be either Sabal minor because they are native here and I tend to like the Carolina blue fronds that they have around here. I also like Chamaerops humilis. 

[Daryl]

 

[Tracy]

23 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

I keep my Chamerops limited to how many trunks it is allowed to grow, and it's no longer a scrubby palm, but I still like it.  I keep it trimmed back for safety reasons, as it's next to the walkway and gate and I don't want anyone getting caught on it.  I have removed plenty of barbs from my scalp arms and clothes over the years working around it.

[Tracy]

On 11/23/2018, 9:49:15, PalmTreeDude said:

What is your favorite palm that tends to be scrubby and more low lying (typically) in habitat?

I struggled with this question.  I wouldn't really call some of the small understory Chamaedoreas that I have scrubby, but they are likely the closest palm I have that really stays low to the ground over the long run.  In most cases, I have used cycads to fill this visual niche in my garden, but I won't have the audacity to post any in a string about palms.

[Really full garden]

Allagoptera arenaria

[Zeeth]

Silver serenoa are always nice. Here's a really silver one I found in the wild in Brevard county.