You have obviously found the secret to keeping palms alive in your area.
I felt so excited to see my needle survive the winter totally unscathed and then I saw yours and it is awesome. Mine is much smaller but what a hardy palm.
In it's first winter it survived -7C, wind, heavy rain, and heavy frost without any damage at all.
I have a robusta that I want to plant outside and you have really motivated me into doing so. I should be able to protect it enough for it to survive our winters until it grows too large.

Here is a pic of my Rhapidophyllium Hystrix taking yesterday. It has put on growth over the winter. I really notice the growth on the sucker.
I bought this one from Broadway last year.

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You will be needing to move that bird bath very soon. It looks very healthy. Do they have many needle palms up there?

Wes, thats EXACTLY how I want my Hystrix to look. Is it much trouble keeping it trunking like that, or is it just a matter of cutting the old leaves off as they die off?

Hey macario, I just showed your pics to my husband.
He was absolutely gob-smacked (to use that delightfully descriptive English phrase). He was wondering if we should do that, too.
I just smile and say, "yes, in our next house, but not here." 😀

Who would'a thought it would take a 900 pound palm lying on its side to get him to talk about selling/rebuilding. I should have seen those pics years ago, macario. I could kiss you! 😉

Wes, that's already a beauty. Nice!

macario, they are impossible to find here. I ordered mine from a nursery in Ontario which is 4000 miles away from here. I plan on ordering more soon from the same nursery.
Kansas, I only remove a frond when it turns brown and that has only happened once with this palm and that was last summer. I guess I didn't water it enough.
It has put growth on throughout the winter so you are right I will have to remove the bird bath soon but right beside the bird bath is a good sized chamaerops humilis. They will probably grow into one another one day.

Be warned...this is nowhere NEAR Macario's or any of your achievement(s), but hey, this is BIG for me.
I planted my 30-year old (stunted) Trachy out today. No big news for you, but I had to do it by myself and the begger was soooo heavy, then I couldn't get it out of the pot, so I got the saw out and had to cut the pot apart, then I had to dig to China through what seemed like concrete and big bloody rocks .... I'll quit ramblin' and here's the pics.

Notice it's new made-in-the-USA coat on the last pic!

Why did I plant it...we're not gonna move.

I have a read-made frame, and an outdoor electrical plug, all ready to go next fall, just have to cover everything in 95 blankets.

It almost killed me, I ache all over. It was a 3-bandaid day!
But it's in the ground...yippeeeeeee, and all because you folks are doing so much more than me to push the zones! Thks.
Barb

That's great Barb. Looks like you got a workout planting it. Hope it does well for you. 😀

Regards,
Jay

Yes it looks great ! I cant believe that trachy is 30 yrs old. I feel sorry for you I know that sore feeling very well. I am sure your palm will do well. I wonder if it will start growing faster now?

Thanks, guys.
Yup I wonder if it'll really take off now, as someone said earlier. The two spears that have been just sitting there all winter while it was in the building have really started to move. One's almost open and the other one is up another 5 or 6 inches, thanks to Barrie's utter surprise that I hadn't watered it for 4 months (so I watered and fertilized the hell out of it).

No matter how you guys push your zones, or deny it, I simply cannot envision having this plant outside in one of our bone-breaking winters where it hits -30C. It's rare but it happens. We were at, I believe, -21 or so in November.
I doubt it would have made it, no matter how many Christmas lights I could wrap around it.

Anyway I'm glad it's planted, but my shoulders are sooooo sore I can hardly type 😥

Macario got all yours in the ground? Don't forget to post your new pics?

Great Job !!!
Now it's time to get out the Ben Gay!!!
And the tylenols!!LOL

Don

Ha ha, Don, does he do massages too?

First a beer...
Barb

Ben Gay,is like absorbine Jr!
Pain cream rub,your husband will do the massaging!!!LOL
Speaking of beer,you all get budwieser and coors up thar!!!

Don, I know, just pulling your leg... 😆
Yup we've got bud and coors...all we live for is the bud commercials (on really s-l-o-w weekends).

Wait'll you taste our Okanagan beer (right, Jay?). It'll stand your socks up...without being in 'em.

Poor husband's had shingles for the last 3 months (hence my planting that bloomin' palm by myself today).
He's suffering big-time.
Barb

Gotta love Okanagan Springs Pale Ale. 😀