I had 'New Day' at the old house and regret leaving it behind. It was an excellent cut flower as well as garden rose. It is a Kordes so is somewhat more cold-hardy than a lot of yellow HTs. My new PJPII has a lot of that growth as well. It is a very vigorous cultivar, full of energy and vitality. As it has gotten taller the growth has become very normal looking.

If your palm is showing classic "frizzle top", then that is a Manganese deficiency and has nothing to do with Magnesium. I don't like using something I don't need. Most palm fertilizers have enough to color up the plant a little, so I wouldn't use any at all if you are worried about the salt. Now, if you use a lot of Manganese without a good amount of Iron, then you can get an Iron deficiency (and vice versa). So if you want to add extra, I would go with some extra Manganese Sulphate (no more than about 10 to 12 tablespoons for a decent sized clustering Pr) and about 1/4 the amount of Iron Sulphate to try and balance it a little, and you should be good. I may be known for growing cycads, but I was growing 275 species of palms before I decided to specialize in cycads, so something like this is an easy question. Good luck with your plant. Sounds like the soil is good, so it should come back quickly after a few new leaves to come out of it. So, how is your water? Is it close to neutral? How about salt, any problems there?

It is not a coincidence that your maple is turning color early on the side of the removed arborvitae. With non-conifer trees, usually the branches on one side of the tree are mainly fed by roots on the same side. The maple will be fine. The only other thing done by damaging the roots (besides general stress) is the greater possibility of verticillum wilt infection because of the greater number of wounds as infection points. The wilt enters the tree through the roots. You can't do anything about that anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. Our ash trees will eventually be wiped out, far worse that the elms with Dutch elm disease. Their tree WILL die, it's only a matter of time. Insecticides can work, but must be applied at least yearly. (I think there is one chemical that can be applied every two years, but it is even more expensive). Unless this is professionally injected into the tree, this is not very environmentally friendly either. I was completely taken aback at a review given on TV by one of the news stations; they were interviewing various tree companies for their advice on ash trees infected by or in danger of FAB. Only one gave removal of the trees as a possible (and preferred) alternative. All the other businesses interviewed only wanted to pump the trees with chemicals (and for coming years without end). The news station was very biased, and went out of the way to how "bad" the advice of removal was. (Who knew that news stations were experts of tree insects?) Complete idiots. My whole point with that story is for you to be careful how you approach the removal option. It is what I would do. The tree will only get larger in time, and more costly to remove. I wonder . . . if the tree becomes infected, does the city remove it free of charge? Or is the home owner billed?

I'd agree with this being an interesting thread, and I still consider the roebellinis one of the most graceful and beautiful of the "small" plams (of course small is only relative in the world of palms , looking at those pictured with the good sized trunks), and I still question why my last one struggled so much from day one, though it looked fairly healthy when it arrived in the mail. It always seemed to be a bit "limp" so to speak , and though they don't have stiff fronds compared to many other types, mine were exceptionally droopy and always looked weak! I've though most likely, my indoor light , even supplemented with gro-lites just wasn't bright enough, but perhaps it could have been a nutritional problem. The fronds were never quite as dark a green as I usually see pictured, and the individual leaflets a bit wider spaced, than those on most specimens I've seen. I'd still like even a young one again!!