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Old 02-14-2013, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by gjbl8114 View Post
DON'T DO IT!!!! Queen Palms are fast growers and tend to accentuate landscaping, however, they are problemmatic and require an enormous amount of maintenance, not to mention when the seed pods come out on them. We have (had) three - now only two. The winter o 2009 claimed one. If you don't want the expense of major maintenance and annoying seedling issues that, by the way, stain your driveway - DON'T DO IT...... By the way, I live south of 466.
We've had queen palms since 2007 and we enjoy them, no problems. We also have a double Sylvester that we love. We replaced all our mulch with rock.
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