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Originally Posted by Richard
Well I've gone 50 years swearing I'll never plant a palm tree in my yard ...
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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
Wyh is that so? Any special reason?
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Some of you are probably familiar with Blue Jay birds. They like to store nuts for the winter, and if they can't find a suitable place they will just peck a hole in the ground and push them inside. Oh yes, they also forget about the seeds. So this is great for the acorns of the native oaks, but there were also palm trees in the town I grew up in. Every summer from kindergarten on it was my job to pull out the 100's of Washingtonia palm starts from our acre property. I began to look at palm trees as sources of trouble and nothing else. They were ok in a date orchard or a desert oasis. They still have no appeal to me as an ornamental plant. I like some dates and certainly my favorite fruit shake drink is date, and for that matter from Hadley's in Banning California. I've been selling the Zahidi date palm, the Pindo palm, and the Chilean Wine palm for a couple of years but never considered planting one ... until last weekend I had some dates from a customer of mine who feeds his plant appropriately. Wow. It changed my mind about that plant!