Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Also known as the Chinese windmill palm, the windmill palm tree (Trachycarpus fortunei) is one of the toughest trees you can try. Suitable for USDA zones 8-10, it benefits from being both cold ...

A map that the Department of Transportation has put together shows just how popular the windmill palm is. It tracks 175,000 of the 225,000 to 250,000 trees on SDOT property, broken down by 122 types.

When the sun is shining and the temperatures soar, lounging in the back garden can almost feel as good as being on holiday.

Palms related to Mexican fan palms and Chinese windmill palms, Reichgelt told me, once stretched to Alberta, Canada. “Palm pollen, which is less attributable to a specific group, has been found ...

Palm trees are a staple of New Orleans' tropical landscapes. ... while windmill palms reach 15 to 20 feet tall with a spread of about 5 feet. Some palms grow in a more shrublike fashion, ...

About 30 years ago, I skinned a windmill palm to see what would happen. Skinning it (removing the outer fronds with a sharp knife) had no effect on it. Some palms do get the “giant palm borer ...

Our palm panoply extends to the ritzy Canary Island date palm, the pygmy date and windmill palms, and a mini-monarchy of queen and king palms, which look a little haphazardly asymmetrical.