if you cant find one.. you arent looking hard enough ... they are near bulletproof in my z5 .. as far as the tree itself.. and one in 10 years.. there is some flower problems.. you should have no problem ... they are spectacular.. unnamed or foo foo ones ... its all about how much you want to spend ... i would not buy any bigger than about 2 to 3 feet.. to make the job easier ... you simply need to find a nursery .. if they have that kind of thing in brooklyn ... otherwise.. time for some phone calls and a road trip ... mail order is an option.. but then you are talking in the 6 inch to one foot size.. regardless of size.. it will probably take a few years to start getting a really good flower show .. it is a tree/flowering shrub after all ... not an annual or perennial ... stay away from yellow ones.. they are not within your learning curve at this time ... too foo foo .. ken ps: i used to get a catalog from a nursery out that way .. maybe i will reactivate that brain cell ...east coast.. NJ??? .. well know.. family name [4 or 5 letters] .. specialized in woody shrubs ... newsprint catalog, back in the day ... maybe someone else will know it.. based on that dearth of info ..

Greg, That picture of the forest of B.yatay palms was taken in Argentina(El Palmar)National Park.Cool picture,Butia palms as for as the eye can see.What I meant by the experts saying that T.fortunei is best suited for our region is our soil and climate and rainfall is just about exactly the same as where they grow naturally.I don't need to add sand to my soil,at least in the front and side yards.My soil drains to good,that was the problem for the Trachycarpus palms.16 feet down under my soil is solid granite rock,I live on top of a big granite hill.I cant plant anything in my back yard anyhow.I have 4 pitbulls in a 6ft fence.I've tried to plant stuff back there and they will tare it up,even pull it slap out of the ground.The only thing back there is a Red Oak tree that's probably 150yrs old,it's huge.The back of my house faces north,no good for palms anyhow.I do add Palm Tone and Superthrive in with the soil when I plant a palm.I use both about every 2 months from May to September also.Plus I foliar feed them with Neptune's Harvest,fish and seaweed fertilizer every weekend.I have 3 T.fortuneis,1 T.wagnerianus.I ordered a 3 gallon T.princeps yesterday.I haven't had a problem with any of the Trachycarpus palms this year since I started using the Superthrive.It makes palms grow like crazy :)

Decorating trends are not like clothes fashion. It takes a longer time cycle, like 20 years. Stainless appliances were the "hot" thing many decades ago, then yes, they fell out of fashion. Everything does, after a long while - the eye simply gets tired. Especially these days, when everybody and their mothers can get photos of their remodeled kitchens up on the Web for millions to critique. I admire a nice piece of granite, or onyx, or even Cheng's fad-creating concrete countertops. Very pretty stuff. But just like rooster prints all over the kitchen, seeing it a few times is okay. You just don't want to see it in EVERY kitchen, that's all. Natural stone has the advantage of unpredictability. No single installation is going to look quite like someone else's install, even if it's the same stone. So the eye doesn't tire of it quite so fast...but it does happen. Specifically, although the first few dozen tumbled marble backsplashes I saw were (and are) nice, now it's hard to tell them apart. Everybody's got a special design arched over their cooktop/range, maybe a horizontal border, maybe not. Same old, same old. It's going to be the total package - counters, floors, cabinets, appliances - that make it possibly impressive, perhaps lasting design. None of us will know until we look at it in 20 years and say either "Blech!" or "Yeah, still looks good!" Still, this is a great time to be a consumer - the variety of what is available to us, within affordability, is absolutely amazing.

I searched, until I found the conversation with Bernard: rooftopbklyn (or is it Daniel? Sorry I'm really bad at remembering names), it's my favorite spring and summer spot to observe plants, but go early! The rarer ones usually get snagged first. There was once I found a variegated echeveria among the herd, so happy my eye caught it fast. There is another farmers market in front of the grand army plaza every Saturday, but I think the vendors there mostly sells herbs and annuals. Let me see if I can find photos, I'll post them later, there is an amazing hidden gem me and my partner found in Brooklyn, near the south end of prospect park. They have massive green houses and of course one stretch with amazing C&S varieties, but they were on the pricier side. Like Bookmark May 9, 2016 at 11:02AM rooftopbklyn (zone 7a) Prospect park? hmm. I know a place that is on the south side of greenwood cemetery that's sometimes good - I guess thats also near the south side of prospect park, and is definitely over priced - david shannon nursery. Interested in which place you you refer to. I have found shannon's selection hit and miss, and extremely pricey. But I do sometimes buy things there. Sometimes the price is marked, sometimes it depends who is at the counter :) it is definitely family operated. Yeah the grand army plaza farmers market is annuals and herbs, same as the one on carroll I previously mentioned. I got a huge lavender at grand army plaza one year. Daniel Like Bookmark May 9, 2016 at 4:12PM bernardyjh(Zone 7) Daniel, I think that's the place I was talking about. David Shannon Nursery, they are near a cemetery. If you walk into their backyard, you'll find 3-4 huge greenhouses. It's almost mind blowing! But $10-15 for a few small common echeveria species is quite hard for me to swallow even though I'm a avid supporter of local businesses. 1 Like Bookmark d and searched, until I found the coversation with Bernard: