NOLA.com

Freeze damage can mimic disease symptoms in palms. Here’s how to tell the difference.

You’ll need to send in a sample to the AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center, which LSU AgCenter plant doctor Raj Singh oversees.
Columbus Dispatch

With proper care, some palms can survive even dead of winter in Ohio

With this summer’s extreme heat, it might not be surprising to see palm trees thriving in central Ohio. But winters here aren’t as kind to the tropical plants. Just ask half-brothers Ted Berry and ...
Miami Herald

Are palms trees? Or maybe large, woody herbs?

Is multiple-stemmed paurotis a tree? It all depends on your definition. Sara Edelman Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden In a past Miami Herald article, I called a young palm a sapling. A reader asked ...
SFGate

PALMS POP UP ALL OVER S.F. / Since the 1989 earthquake, the city has spent $1.9 million on trees that evoke Los Angeles to boost tourism and combat urban blight

Palm trees are on the rise in San Francisco. From gritty Sixth Street to up-and-coming Octavia Boulevard, the city has embarked on what amounts to a campaign, planting hundreds of the towering symbols ...
SFGate

Palms up! / Only one kind is native to the state, but California is defined by these trees

The first time I visited California, I drove west from Indiana on Interstate 80, across the Sierra Nevada and down through the foothills toward the Central Valley. Somewhere around Auburn in Placer ...