Hi Friends, I am thankful to moderator and all the members of this group for sharing a useful information on palm industry. I am from India, I have decided to...
Our deed-restricted neighborhood association here in Sarasota FL has authority over tree removal. Two queen palms on our property, both 20 years old, were...
This old misconception again. A dicot versus a monocot has to do with the way the vascular tissue is arranged in the trunk. Examples of dicots - An Oak would...
The general rule I was taught (in plant ID class at Purdue back when the earth was cooling): Under 8" (I now use knee high instead) = Groundcover 8" to 8'...
If the Association has decided that the Queens are "trees" in the sense that the Neighborhood bylaws intended, that is all that matters. It is a legal...
This brings up a possibility. If they are dead you can take them out right? Quietly girdle the poor things far enough down in the soil so no one can tell or...
CFPACS Public Seed Offering – November 2008 The following just-received or remaining seeds are available for purchase. All seeds have been donated, not...
I was faced with a similar problem 15 years ago when I bought my house. The City of Ft. Lauderdale wouldn't let me remove a Bishofia (Toog) with a 24" diameter...
I wonder if anybody knows of any palm music? Gabriela Mistral - Nobel prize winner in Literature has written a poem dedicated to the Palma Chilena Jubea...
Venezuela's wellknown dendrologist Dr Leandro Arristiguieta published several studies on this country's dendrology and the palms are not included, to the...
Guantanamera I am a truthful man from this land of palm trees Before dying I want to share these poems of my soul My verses are light green But they are also...
Hello, and thanks for reading my post...I will probably have several over the next few days. So here are a few questions of mine in trying to learn more about ...
Ok, plant rights and palm music. How about palm puns? :0) "Plant a palm. Have a frond for life!" and "Support plant parenthood." Sorry. Could not resist. ...
Neil Young's "Last Trip to Tulsa" "I was chopping down a palm tree When a friend dropped by to ask If I would feel less lonely if he helped me swing the ax ......
For some palmy music tryfany of the following: The Wreck of the Royal Palm - by Rev. Andrew Jenkins and sung by Vernon Dalhart; tenor solo, violin and guitar...
Hi John; Always include your (palms) location when you ask questions; that tells us a lot, and saves questions and answers. IMO, that King is dead, or too far...
John! (By tyhe way, where are you?) Your palm is probably afflicted by fungus It may be a goner, or perhaps daconil or some other systemic fungicide will...
I like this because it is simple but it leads to confusion. Just what is bamboo? If it is over 20 feet is it a tree? I could never think of bamboo as a tree....
Yeah, you might get some argument. lol Just because it is sold at Home Depot, which Drew did not say that is where they came from, does not make it bad....
... You have got to be kidding me!!! I thought we had it bad here in the States having to deal with the PETA and HSUS freaks. Animals and plants do not have...
Problem with generalizations is there are exceptions... in Indiana there are very few bamboos and palms to worry about...There was also an exception added that...
Botanically a bamboo is a grass. I love bamboo. So many fascinating and fun things can be built out of them not to mention the plant is fascinating with its...
I think the original poster was referring to giving a Big box store money and business when so many mom and pop nurseries are suffering terribly! Elizabeth...
Well now it could depend. Myth Busters recently did a show where they attempted to bust the myth that Plants were aware of us and could react to our emotions...
Well personally I like the definition and I do think of the giant timber bamboo as trees. Admittedly some of my various Phyllostachys in Albuquerque don't...
I read about this Swiss law a few weeks ago. I also laughed because for years I've argued tongue-in-cheek to my vegetarian friends about the ethics of ripping...
This is sort of interesting, what is a tree? I can say that Palms, Yuccas, Dracaenas and the like, all have species that do branch, so branching or not can not...
Bamboo fits all the requirements of a tree. It has a central stem, it braches, it's woody and last more than on season, and it's very tall We have oaks here in...
You point out one large reason we should pay respect to plants. They can live an prosper without killing, we cannot. For most higher animal to live something...
Except for Buzzards who take what is already dead and turn it back into life and some Parasites who live in harmony with their Hosts and give them some benefit...