Q: We bought a blue Mexican fan palm at a local nursery four years ago ... I was careful to dig a large planting hole and careful removing the plant from the containers. I put it on our drip.

A 25-foot Mexican fan palm dominates our garden ... If you prune a trunk back, you remove the growing point at the base of the crown, and the trunk dies. Older leaves actually help provide ...

Like Mexican fan palm, it often self sows ... to drop dangerously heavy sections of their beards without warning. Removal of old deteriorating leaves from the huge canopies of Canary Island ...

Q. My 7-foot-tall Mexican fan palm is growing, but the fronds turn yellow, then brown. -- K.J., Houston A. Palm fronds naturally brown and drop with age. Some gardeners remove them to avoid the ...

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 ...