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2. Those trees also require tremendous maintenance costs.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 29, 2017, 04:31 PM

Sep 2017

They have to be trimmed every year which means man hours and trucks with high booms to get up there to trim the dead fronds.

There's a development across the street from mine in Vegas and they're putting in palm trees all around the perimeter.

They are incurring a huge, yearly expense for the HOA/homeowners. Too bad.

Not worth it.

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Los Angeles' legendary palm trees are dying and few will be replaced [View all] Eugene Sep 2017 OP

I love them, I love LA. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

Me too, even if we moved away. As aliens go I prefer palms to eucalyptus Hortensis Sep 2017 #3

I agree about the oaks stopwastingmymoney Sep 2017 #7

Those trees also require tremendous maintenance costs. brush Sep 2017 #2

Love our Palms. Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #4

Shade? From palm trees? brush Sep 2017 #6

Lol. Two stocky ones came with our old-MH-on-marsh in Florida, and in that hot a Hortensis Sep 2017 #10

Yes,it is all about how one Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #11

I always laugh a little when I see stopwastingmymoney Sep 2017 #8

My neighbor behind me has several palms in his backyard. Every year he waits until the dead fronds.. brush Sep 2017 #9

For me, palm trees are among the most beautiful... dhill926 Sep 2017 #5