Tomorrow morning I'm replacing a couple huge Bismarck Palms in my front yard that were killed by Palmetto Weevils. The Palmetto Weevil has never been a traditional pest of the Bismarck except for just the past couple years or so. It's like that with a few other popular landscape trees and palms - I believe having to do with climate change and also the disruption of nature by man.
I'm replanting with a different species.
One will be a Livistona saribus (see photos below) but the other I'm still contemplating. One candidate would be the Dwarf Budda Belly Bamboo:
Other choices are a large Bottle Palm or a Triangle Palm, both of which I have on hand as well as the DBBB.
This going to be fun!
My friends and I who are in the trade sometimes call this palm the Flintstones Palm because it looks cartoonish with it's wide leaflets (which don't really show in these pics), the way the canopy drapes downward, and the ridiculously long and curved black armament along the petiole.