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 ...

An informal survey of the landscapes in our neighborhoods might lead to the conclusion that the landscape rules require a phoenix roebelenii, pygmy date palm, to be planted in every front yard. Palm ...

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 ...

Palms need our help, because it is still evident that the massacre continues. You can easily identify over-pruned palms, even from a distance, because their canopy should be full of fronds. Instead, ...

Varied plants with colorful flowers blooming in a garden with white chair - Darrell Gulin/Getty Images Pruning — a term that invokes fear in the best of the gardeners, and for good reason. Pruning is ...

One of the most important palm maintenance tasks is pruning. Judging by the palm pruning being performed in our landscapes, you would think that pruning palms to a few fronds sticking out of the top ...

After many years of pruning the ligustrum and arborvitae and spreading juniper from the front door welcome mat, homeowners have come to appreciate dwarf plants. While searching for replacements for ...

It’s nearly impossible to divorce palms from their tropical connotations. Their unmistakable architecture means they’ve become gardening shorthand for the tropics. Merely saying the word conjures up ...

“Palms are not like trees; they are more like big bunches of grass.” The statement grabs some attention as it leads to discussion of the many differences between monocots and dicots. Palms are less ...