Palm trees are recognized as the symbol for Los Angeles. Many have reached the edges of their lifespan.

Also known as the Chinese windmill palm, the windmill palm tree (Trachycarpus fortunei) is one of the toughest trees you can try. Suitable for USDA zones 8-10, it benefits from being both cold ...

For this reason, learning how to protect palm trees in winter is always sensible, especially if you garden in a cooler, northerly zone where the winter weather can prove challenging. Here, one ...

The new palm tree planted last week along Alki Beach stands about 14, maybe 15 feet high. It’s a nice-looking windmill palm, all pruned and healthy, the kind that grows very well in our ...

Metropolis In-N-Out, Weirdly, Is a Climate Change Indicator A warming planet is more hospitable to palm trees. The iconic SoCal chain is obsessed with them.

Palms are an important group of plants that we use to create a tropical look in our landscapes. May through August is the preferred time to plant palms here because the warm soil will encourage ...

The success of the tree growing and staying alive in the New England climate is partly because it is a windmill palm, the hardiest of the palm trees, but mostly it's because Flaherty goes to ...

Palm trees do not get borers or sunburned trunks. Borer damage doesn’t happen much probably because they are monocots.

Those who raise tropical and subtropical plants in their Pacific Northwest gardens are a small but determined group — and they all have a reason for going tropical.

Canary Island date palms are huge and dramatic, reaching heights of about 40 feet with a spread of about 20 feet, while windmill palms reach 15 to 20 feet tall with a spread of about 5 feet.

In Bob Flaherty's backyard in Norwood, Mass., the likely only living, year-round, outdoor palm tree in New England stands tall.Flaherty and his wife love all things tropical and Caribbean.