With hurricane season just around the corner, is it time to hurricane prune your palm trees? The answer might surprise you.

A little careful pruning is required in some circumstances and it means knowing when and how to prune a palm tree safely is important if you have any on your property.

When it comes to pruning palms, the best policy is to only remove totally brown fronds.

Palms need our help because it is still evident that the pruning massacres continue. You can easily identify overpruned palms from a long distance because their canopy is small and not a round ...

A healthy palm should have a 360-degree crown. Palms are routinely over-pruned to the extent that most folks have never seen a palm with a full canopy. The dangers of over-pruning palms are manyfold.

With hurricane season just around the corner, is it time to hurricane prune your palm trees? The answer might surprise you.

Summer wanes and the last thing on our minds may be tree pruning. That’s recommended for winter, right? When trees are ...

A healthy palm should have a 360-degree crown. Palms are routinely over-pruned to the extent that most folks have never seen a palm with a full canopy. The dangers of over-pruning palms are manyfold.

In recent years palms have become very susceptible to diseases so the more fronds left the better. Also, when pruned, sterilize the pruning equipment between palms to prevent the spread of diseases.

I am ticked off when palm trees are heavily pruned. Cutting too many leaves will deprive the palm of nutrition and weaken it, making it vulnerable to winds, insect and disease. In fact, “palm ...

Sally Scalera: Stop! Over-pruning that palm could be detrimental to its health Sally Scalera March 21, 2022 at 7:00 AM ...