My first exposure to the distinctive, tropical fishtail palm was in the late 1990s when my job was landscape manager for Universal Orlando. We were in the construction phase of the exciting “Islands ...

You may know that "fish tale" means an exaggerated, boastful story and is based on the much-observed tendency of fisherfolk to overstate their catch. For gardeners, however, the word "fishtail" evokes ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...