With a little careful planning, biodiversity can be created when a new landscape is designed or increased if correct plants ...

Mexican fan palms are towering icons, reaching 90 feet. As their name implies, the leaves look like fans — or the palms of our hands. By some accounts, they can live for hundreds of years.

We can only speculate what influenced Arthur John Mathews, the Tempe Normal School’s first president (1904-1930) to introduce the Mexican Fan Palm to the campus in dramatic fashion.

Mexican and California fan palms get 60 (California fan palm) to 100 feet tall (Mexican fan palm). There are other palms that stay smaller than this and are better suited to residential landscapes.

A reader surprised me with an inquiry about a mature Mexican fan palm dying suddenly here in Napa. A possible cause came to mind, as I saw one dying of a fairly common disease — pink rot — a ...

The most common was the Washingtonia robusta, or Mexican fan palm. Many of the original palms planted in the 1930s are still around. A fan palm can grow to 100 feet and live for hundreds of years.

The pindo palm (or jelly palm), Butia capitata, has blue-grey feather-shaped fronds. It is also very cold hardy and will produce edible fruit that can be made into jam or jelly. This palm is slow ...

Experience the challenge of pruning Mexican Fan Palms (Washingtonia robusta) in dry, demanding conditions, where every cut requires focus, balance, and grit. In this video, you’ll see what it ...

Sitting under a swaying palm tree, sipping an exotic drink with a tiny umbrella in the glass, and to think you are in your back yard and not miles and Palms add exotic feel to outside space | Home ...

5. Palms damage hardscape. A small fan palm today is a monster tomorrow because Washingtonias grow so fast. Damage to masonry is not so much the roots, but the rapid growth and expanding diameter.