Q: We bought a blue Mexican fan palm at a local nursery four years ago ... You can apply a slow release fertilizer around the root zone once each year. Planting holes should be twice as wide ...

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 ...

If you have palms planted in your landscape, you’re going to want to read this article all the way through. We have a few relatively new diseases that affect palms, and one that has been around ...

A property owner has submitted a request to the City of Santa Barbara to take down a Mexican fan palm tree near ... ensure that the tree dies. The root ball can rot away over time.” ...

Long and lean, the palm tree ... each root attaches directly to the trunk, like hair to a scalp. (Other trees feature a primary root from which others branch off.) Mexican fan roots may spread ...