When To Trim Your Palm Trees

In the Phoenix metro area many commercial properties feature beautiful Queen Palm Trees (Syagrus romanzoffiana).  These tall and majestic landscape icons have several specialized needs to maintain their look, health and safety.

As the property owner or manager you need to understand what and when your palm trees need some Tender Loving Care.

Fertilizing
Most landscape palms will require fertilization once or twice a year. Not just any fertilizer will do, however.  Palm trees have special needs that must be met with specially formulated fertilizers that target specific nutrient deficiencies.  You should also apply regular maintenance fertilizers to healthy trees.

Pruning or Trimming
Your typical care and maintenance for the health of your Palm Tree includes Pruning cautiously. Palm Tree Care - Pruning. Even though this article is on the timing of pruning your palm trees always remember that Palm trees are still low maintenance trees.

Most palm trees shed their fronds naturally, but other palms drop the fronds after some time. When it is necessary to prune the palm trees, never remove fronds that do not hang below a line parallel to the ground.

Pruning palms can reduce their vigor, transmit diseases, reduce their health nutritionally, affect cold hardiness and lower their tolerance to handle windstorms. So what pruning should be done on a palm tree? Remove only badly damaged or dead fronds, also remove flowers.

If Palms' fronds are yellow, brown or broken prune them off. Remove loose petioles or boots by hand. If they don't pull off, leave them on.

Care of Palm Trees include removing Palm flower and fruit stalks. The formation of fruit and seed takes strength away from Palm Trees unnecessarily. When mature, fruits may provide food for pests such as rodents and birds. Palms, such as date Palm Trees, produce infertile (where there are no male trees near by) or fertile fruit that will later drop, make a mess or stain concrete surfaces. The seeds of some Palms such as Fan Palm Trees (Washingtonia robusta/filifera) will germinate in undesired areas of the landscape.

Proper care includes that some clumping Palms may need to be thinned out or new growth pruned off if the Palm Trees are getting too big for the space in which the Palms are growing.

Let Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance take care of your properties palm trees and take the load off your shoulders.

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