As Tovah Martin notes in Once Upon a Windowsill, “When the Victorians first laid eyes on palms in the great public gardens, it was definitely love at first sight.” Gardeners’ “frond-ship” with indoor ...

Just thinking of palm trees conjures up the sweet thoughts of sipping a tropical beverage out of a coconut. The air is warm and salty from the sea breeze, and you've not a care in the world. That's ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Q: Are there any types of palm trees that would survive in the Harrisburg area? I want to plant tropical plants around my pool. A: A few palms are rated as winter hardy to Zone 6, which includes all ...

For most of us palms are ornamental landscape accent plants which remind us that we live in the tropics, they don’t come to mind when we think of edible plants. Not only are a lot of palm species ...

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area. The palm ...

The visitors to the nursery entered tentatively, clearly unaccustomed to the forest of plants they were seeing. A clerk quickly approached. “May I help you?” “Well, yes,” answered the man. “We’re ...