The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

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 ...

Nothing brings the image of a tropical vacation quite like palm trees. You may have seen palm trees planted as summertime potted plants in our climate, but some gardeners are pushing the limits and ...

Bamboo, palm, and banana trees look and act like trees, but are actually closer to grasses in how they grow because—unlike trees—their stems do not grow wider over time. However, due to their towering ...

The palmetto is South Carolina’s official state tree. Several palm species thrive in the South Carolina climate. Jason Lee For many folks, nothing says life at the beach like a palm tree in the yard, ...

Call forth the mourners from far and wide. And remind them to bring their chainsaws. Don’t freak out. This isn’t an alert about any wholesale dying of palms. Not all of them, anyway, and not right ...

Hyphaene guineensis (doum), among the most threatened palm species in west Africa. Didier Roguet Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and ...