Less tattering of the leaves if the spot is not windy. Regular watering and probably a need for repeated nitrogen applications for best growth and appearance. People plant them all over, with the result that although they usually live and grow many are shabby looking much of the time. Ideal spot probably a moist and fertile, sheltered ravine.

Palms in general are indicators of moist or even wet places. That includes kinds that grow in deserts where they may be the only plants present - at an oasis, where there is water in the ground.

In the tropical rain forest palms may grow and mark the places where it is too wet for most other trees.