Have you ever heard of a walking palm tree? It sounds like something out of a fairytale, but it's actually quite real! The Socratea exorrhiza is found in Latin America and is one of the most ...

Ever wonder why some palm varieties flourish while others suddenly bend at the trunk or topple over completely? From the iconic coconut palm to towering royal palms, these signature features of ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

When Carol Mulcahy couldn’t keep her decades-old palm alive in her yard on Los Altos Road in Pacific Beach she did the next best thing. With the help of a local tiki carver, she turned it into a work ...

I have received several questions recently on this subject, so let’s take a look at some key issues about living with palm trees In Napa Valley: Which species are hardy enough to survive our winters?

Cinching a belt about four to ten feet from the base of the trunk helps keep rodents and other wildlife from making a home at the top. The apparatus also discourages domestic animals from reaching new ...

This article entertains an ongoing debate that I often hear: Are palm trees really trees? Could our state tree, the sable palm, not even be a tree? This has been argued in many different ways with the ...