Palm Trees
December 16, 2010
Palm trees are quite common at our vacation home. I love them! They are rather majestic looking. We will be shopping for palm trees our next trip to our vacation home. To my understanding palm trees are not without problems though. The first problem we discovered is they attract palmetto bugs. These huge and rather ugly bugs also known as the American cockroach are more annoying than anything else especially when they get in the house, and they do. The second thing I have noticed is palm trees look to be higher maintenance although that might just be from what we've seen. The large, lower fonds die off then need to removed to encourage the tree to grow upwards. It is likely no more work trimming hedges except when the trees get taller reaching the lower fonds.
Happy Gardening!
Garden Gnome
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Being from Canada, I'm sure you already know. The best way to winterize anything is to surround it w/ palm trees. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's an old RVers saying & hold to it. Seems as if you do as well. :)
Palm trees do indeed have their issues. Don't water it too much, or it'll get way big & bust out of any planter you might have it in. Tree rats love them, they provide the rats w/ room & board. I love on one of those SoCal streets that are lined with those tall, tall palm trees you see as a symbol of Beverly Hills. Nasty things!!! Thousands of seeds to sprout in the garden every year.