One of the most important maintenance tasks we perform on palms is pruning. Judging by the palm pruning being performed in our landscapes, you would think that pruning palms to a few fronds sticking ...
Palms help give Florida its tropical look and, when planted in clusters, can even provide shade. They are an important landscape feature for folks at the beach who have few options of salt-tolerant ...
If you look around Jacksonville observing the palm pruning being performed in our landscapes, you would think that pruning palms to a few fronds sticking out of the top of the tree is the right thing ...
Question: I am confused about pruning palms as some are cut to leave a frond or two and others are left with most of their fronds. Which is correct? Answer: Obviously there are lots of confused ...
Palms need our help because it is still evident that the pruning massacres continue. You can easily identify overpruned palms from a long distance because their canopy is small and not a round ...
I am ticked off when palm trees are heavily pruned. Cutting too many leaves will deprive the palm of nutrition and weaken it, making it vulnerable to winds, insect and disease. In fact, “palm beards” ...
Many people believe overpruning will keep palm tree fronds from blowing astray in storms Experts say overpruning can shorten the tree%27s lifespan and sometimes lead to worse hazards Some residents ...
For decades the desert has been home to just three species of palms, two familiar fan palms and the feather fronded date palm, Phoenix dactylifera. Despite the ideal weather for palms, the diversity ...