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Just to set the record straight...Palms are not trees. They are actually a grass.

Those nasty queen palms

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Originally Posted by downeaster (Post 735522)

Two happy days. The first was when the palm trees (queens) were planted and the second was when they were removed.

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN. HOPE PEOPLE WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT THEIR LANDSCAPING READ THIS. THEY ARE HORRIBLY EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN AND THEY ARE A NUISANCE!!!!!::agree:

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Originally Posted by Serenoa (Post 735942)

quote snipped by me.

"Bugs, ants & various critters"? Show me any kind of tree that doesn't have these. LOL

It's puzzling that some folks complain about having to pay someone once or twice a year to have their beautiful, majestic palms trimmed, yet seldom complain about paying a landscape service monthly to have common grass mowed.

Mowing is around $50/month.
We paid $400 to treat our canary palms and $120 every
time my landscaper trims the Washingtonians.
And if those get really tall they have to use a cherry picker
to trim them (don't even want to know what that would cost.)

I LOVE the look of palm trees but HATE the maintenance.
AND they provide NO SHADE!!!