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.

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 ...

King palms and reach 60 feet, and the popular Mexican fan palm can reach 100 feet. Shorter trees include the sago palm, a cycad, which can grow 3-20 feet in height.

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 ...

About 110 Mexican fan palm ... more dense,” said ASU landscape architect Byron Sampson. “We still have a greater shade quality and character to the date palm than we do the fan palm. ...

Probably the easiest palm to grow in our area that can be started from seed is called the California or desert fan palm. VIEW E ... the Mexican fan palm, ... trade as the perfect landscape palm.

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.

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.