This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When many of us think of Los Angeles, there’s a palm in the picture.

Long and lean, the palm tree has stood tall as L.A.’s arboreal mascot for more than a century. In the late 1800s, the trees were planted by developers eager to give the area the look of a tropical ...

Nobody seems to know when, exactly, a stretch of towering Mexican fan palms were planted along one of San Diego's most iconic streets in one of its most iconic neighborhoods, but most would agree that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody seems to know when, exactly, a stretch of towering Mexican fan palms were planted along one of San Diego's most iconic streets in one of its most iconic neighborhoods, but most would agree that ...

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 ...

A property owner has submitted a request to the City of Santa Barbara to take down a Mexican fan palm tree near De la Guerra Plaza. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) A property owner wants to take down ...

Neighbors of Pellier Park in downtown San Jose — finally under construction after a long delay — are feeling misled after the city cut down two Mexican fan palm trees on the site, foliage they thought ...