Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Need Palm Trees Trimmed & Seed Pods Removed
Looking for recommendations to have Sylvester and Bismark palm trees trimmed and Seed pods removed?
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I have been using Vidal Landscape & Design....... they do a very good job, clean up well when done and are about as reasonably priced as any of the many I have tried in our 16 years in TV.
David Vidal, 352-396-8499 or Kathy (spouse), 352-396-8459. Good luck..... |
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Do what we did, trim 3 feet below ground. Awful messy tree, needs constant maintenance and the bugs love them, ugh!
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We have four Sylvester's, two of which are large. I have never removed the seed pods. Im not sure why you want them removed. In fact, I've harvested some of the seeds, and are growing them in small containers.
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I have queen palms. First sign of rot I have them taken out. I've been told once you plant Palm and it matures you can never plant something in that spot do to the root bulb takes decades to disappear? In these small lots you can't take the root bulb out below the ground. I would just make sure who even you get is insured and bonded. IMO not job for local handyman or yard clean up guy?
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Try buying a pole saw and doing it yourself!
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Palm trees belong in other peoples yards, they are nice to look at and I don’t have to care for them.
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The first time I saw big seed pods on queen palms, I could not believe it. Huge, heavy, pointy things that looked like they could take somebody out if they were standing under the tree at the wrong time. Our queen palms had grown really tall and those pods gave me the willies.
Between those seed pods and the yellowing fronds to constantly be removed, I was DONE after 2 years of dealing with queen palms. Queen palms really don’t belong in our part of Florida — too far north. But people like them because of their Florida look. In the beginning, I was quite taken with our queen palms. I thought they were so pretty against the blue sky. I even schlepped big bags of fertilizer to them according to schedule. I caught on though — after seeing huge seed pods that seemed to appear out of nowhere and after hearing that palm rats like to live in queen palms. I never saw one but I wondered if they could see me. (shudder) The palm fronds had started to touch the roof, too. GONE! (Turns out, they actually gave a surprising amount of shade, but I do not miss those queen palms one bit.) Last edited by Boomer; 04-07-2018 at 06:07 AM. |
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Some of us like our Palms and have them trimmed and maintained regularly. We use Reese Cason who is a contractor listed on this site and are very happy with him. Up north we had oaks and maples and had to rake up a hundred bags of leaves every fall.
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The going rate for large queen palms is about $20 per tree...
need to be cleaned out twice per year.... We have 8 of them....a mistake I would never repeat....and do recommend alternative palms that may be a few bucks more but less expensive in the long run. I would tell our palm trimming guy to take one out each time he does a trim.....but I am out voted by my other half!!!! |
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Which tree are you referring to that is awful messy. We have a Sylvester tree on our property and it not messy at all.
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Im wondering the same thing. We have 4 Sylvesters, a Pindo and a Mule palm, none of which are messy.
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A Greener Source, Abel Perez, 352-396-8579. Affiliated with Jireh Landscaping. We have 16 Palms of different varieties and sizes. Abel maintains (fertilizes, trims etc) them and has for the last 3+ years. To date, no tree has died or been replaced.
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When should we have seed pods removed-Sylvesters?
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" Edmund Burke 1729-1797 |
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Queen palms are the messy one. We have sylvestri and a multi trunked dwarf date palm with no problem except for very minor trimming. The queens, now 15 years ago planted are all (9) 25 plus feet in height. They put out huge seed pods that left to open will produce huge amounts of palm berries that eventually drop to the ground covering everything. They also put out a huge yellow flower type appendage that when done blooming makes a huge mess on the ground. It takes cleaning out at least twice per year at $15 to $20 per palm (because of the height). Queens are cheap. The look nice and tropical. They grow very fast. And are very messy. When past a certain height they can no longer be serviced by the home owner. There are too many other better palm choices. |
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