Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year gardeners stress over when to install cold-sensitive plants – and with good reason. When I lived in Polk City years ago ...

A question for Dan Gill: I have three queen palms in my yard, and I love them. I have two clusters of palm fruit hanging on stalks at the moment. I'm interested in trying to grow some from seed, but I ...

Palms help create the tropical look so popular in New Orleans gardens, and summer is the preferred time to plant them. The warm soil from May through August will encourage vigorous root growth. How ...

Driving through local neighborhoods, it’s not hard to find distressed palms. They are mainly the queen, Washington and date palms but others may be affected too. Sometimes even our State Tree, the ...

Our climate and soil are not conducive to growing queen palms, which naturally grow in a more tropical climate — more humid and acidic soil. They grow beautifully in Southern California, Florida and ...

Q: My queen palm has sickly yellow fronds with brown edges. What do I need to do to return it to a rich, deep green health? A: There are tropical palms and desert palms. Queen palms are a tropical ...

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 ...

Have you noticed that there a large number of the same plants planted throughout the county? Many new subdivisions tend to have a limited selection of plants in the yards of the all of the homes. Yet, ...

Have you noticed a lot of plants are over-planted throughout the county? Just look at all the subdivisions with Queen palms planted in every yard and the common areas also. Yet, nature’s way of ...