If you want a tropical look in your landscape, palm trees can provide it. There are many types of palms, and most are easy to grow in well-drained soils and full sunlight. They do not tolerate ...

There used to be a time in Northeast Florida when we had very limited choices when it came to choosing a palm tree to plant in our landscapes. The palms we had were relatively hardy and fairly easy to ...

Valeria Fabiani, Homeowner 9:40:53 I miss the nice big green tree. VALERIA FABIANI USED TO HAVE A WINDOW WITH A VIEW. Valeria Fabiani, Homeowner9:16:40 It started looking like this one. The leaves ...

Palm trees line roads in Southwest Florida. While they make for great scenery, they can also face their own problems. Several diseases are out there right now that can put palm trees at risk, so we ...

What began as a curious survey of an insect in Florida revealed a much larger network of movement across the Caribbean basin. Haplaxius crudus, commonly known as the American palm cixiid, transmits ...

When Thomas "T" Diemer moved to New Orleans in 1988, he noticed the palm trees everywhere — especially the ones with bright orange fruit. “Once, even I stopped the car because a tree had so many and ...

For me, palm trees evoke thoughts of white sandy beaches, warm tropical breezes, and those little umbrella drinks. Widely swaying palm trees are featured in almost every hurricane scene on the news.

The palm tree arguably has come to be nearly as synonymous with Southern California as the Statue of Liberty is with New York City. The decorative plants, particularly those cultivated from ...

The first Spanish explorers never saw our native California palms, but desert tribes knew them well. These huge fat-trunk, slow-growing natives are survivors of much earlier forests that died out eons ...