Been here 20 years, built our home, designed our landscaping. We have 9 various palms, no queen palms. Love them all, fertilize once a year, trim once a year, not much work for all their beauty. No cockroaches, no rats, no mice and we live on a golf course with a lake behind. We have landscaping rocks now. When we had bark chips and then pine needles years ago we did have cockroaches, put down rocks, no more cockroaches, no place for them to hide. It's the ground cover that attracts the roaches, not the palms. If you have rats, you have a food supply for them, they do not eat palms, or palm fronds. Keep your landscaping cleaned up and enjoy the beauty of local palms.
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