California boasts many palm trees, but in reality the state has the same number of native palms as does Oklahoma with its native dwarf palmetto. The stately California fan palm, which is also known as ...

The first Spanish explorers never saw our native California palms, but desert tribes knew them well. These huge fat-trunk, slow-growing natives are survivors of much earlier forests that died out eons ...

For more than a hundred years, the graceful, bushy-topped fan palm has been an iconic symbol of L.A.’s balmy, postcard lifestyle. But city leaders now want to put an end to the tree’s reign on the ...

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their ...

In most cities, buildings make the skyline. Paris has a tower, London a clock, New York an island-long roof-scape. Only Los Angeles signed the sky with trees. Tens of thousands of palms tower over the ...

LOS ANGELES – Its streets aren’t paved with gold. For nearly a century, though, Los Angeles’ roadways have been lined by what some say is the next best thing. But with a City Council vote last week, ...

Not long ago, while strolling in a Jerusalem neighborhood, I spotted a clump of cyclamen foliage at the base of a stone wall. Volunteer cyclamen is as common in Jerusalem as volunteer fan palms are in ...

If you want a tropical look in your landscape, palm trees can provide it. There are many types of palms, and most are easy to grow in well-drained soils and full sunlight. They do not tolerate ...

The fruits have ripened and there is a bounty to harvest. I write not of citrus but of palms. Specifically my topic this week concerns fruits of our native desert fan palm, Washingtonia filifera.

Getting something for nothing always makes us happy, but sometimes we can get more than we bargained for. Take, for example, a Pleasanton man who was delighted when three palm trees appeared out of ...

A reader surprised me with an inquiry about a mature Mexican fan palm dying suddenly here in Napa. A possible cause came to mind, as I saw one dying of a fairly common disease — pink rot — a few years ...