October 15th, 2000
More Outside Palms. We will work our way around the house.
This guy is about 40' tall -- very expensive palm -- needs a haircut badly. I have been instructed to hire a palm trimmer this monday or else I will have to climb that beast -- no way!
sabal palm
We have several queen palms -- very nice breezy tree. They dominate the east side of the house. I like them.
Queen Palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana)
These little non-natives fill in under the queen palms
Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis)
Although they provide a nice privacy screen for the pool, these palms bite!! very sharp stickers on the fronds, making it perilous to trim them -- which we must do often so they don't rip through the screening.
Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis)
We have a canal in the back (long story), and these natives are uncared for and unattended. There are Millions of them in our city -- which is probably why our city is called Palm Bay.
native sabals
Radio Palms -- very unusual variety -- the palms can cover between 14MHz to 1.2GHz -- I like these palms
Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis)
More native palms that belong to the city -- the last 20 feet of my back yard (what we are looking at) belong to the city of Palm Bay
native sabal
The littlest palm -- and Spyder the cat
Phoenix roebelenii (unhealthy specimen -- we have transplanted it to see if it gets healthy)
Looking down the right of way -- more natives.
Well, that is it for the Palm Tree Tour -- hope you liked it!