Q: We have several Mexican fan palms plus a few identified as hybrid California and Mexican fan palms in our backyard. They are sending out flower stalks and make a huge mess for anybody who has a ...

Paula Peper squinted and looked up at a line of palm trees near the California state Capitol on N Street. “Yeah, that’s gone,” the retired urban ecologist said, pointing to a California fan palm with ...

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their ...

Nobody seems to know when, exactly, a stretch of towering Mexican fan palms were planted along one of San Diego’s most iconic ...

A reader surprised me with an inquiry about a mature Mexican fan palm dying suddenly here in Napa. A possible cause came to mind, as I saw one dying of a fairly common disease — pink rot — a few years ...

Residents of Mexico City take photos with the palm tree of the Paseo de la Reforma the day city officials cut it down. Infected with a deadly fungus, the palm was over 100 years old. (Cody ...

The other evening while out on one of my regular neighborhood strolls I encountered something that left me both startled and befuddled. Palm trees. (Which aren’t really trees in the scientific sense, ...

As an urban runner, V. Kelly Turner is always looking for some shade. She doesn’t want to overheat. Most weekday mornings, her usual route takes her down the shadiest stretch of Los Feliz Boulevard, ...

The Palm Springs City Council delayed its vote on the new policy, citing opposition to the plan. The policy will be discussed again at a future meeting. Walking along Palm Canyon Road, you'll find ...