Comments on: The Treetop View for L.A. Homebuyers: Tall Palms Are a Headache

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By: Concrete Polishing PALM BEACH

Concrete Polishing PALM BEACH — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:05:07 +0000

Palm trees are supposed to sway in the wind, for example, but our neighbors’ did not.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:34:10 +0000

I just bought a house with a huge palm tree up front that is beautiful but leans towards my neighbors house and if it was to snap it would cause significant damage to their home. Since the day we moved in the neighbors keep mentioning it to us, but we can not afford to pay thousands of dollars to have the palm tree removed. Is there any type of organization or company that will remove the tree for free to salvage it? It is a very beautiful, healthy palm tree….I have heard they are quite valuable. I am willing to give it for free if they want to remove it!

By: Cindy Allen

Cindy Allen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:49:08 +0000

Great post, Elise. I personally have never seen the appeal of palm trees. They’re so uninteresting! I like my trees to do things, like turn colors or sprout berries or flowers. And provide shade!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:33:31 +0000

It’s not fun being the next door neighbor of one either. My neighbor has 4 Palms on the backside of his property which is adjacent to my back side of my property. He never trimmed the Palms so I got the dead fronds, it blocked out all of my shade causing moss to grow on my hardscape and moss in my planters. My grass started dying. It took OVER one year to motivate him to finally trim his trees. We have an association and my insurance company said it was a fire hazard because of the dead fronts that could catch fire and set my house on fire. He finally trimmed them; it cost him $1,000 to do the work. You are right…consider those palms carefully when considering buying a new home.

By: Will Campbell

Will Campbell — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:25:50 +0000

PS. We didn’t have as hard or expensive time disposing of them. We just called the L.A. sanitation department and scheduled a bulky item pickup. Easy, breezy.

By: Will Campbell

Will Campbell — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:22:16 +0000

We have a 60-foot palm in the northwest corner of our backyard, and another 25 footer that for some reason was planted smackdab in the middle of the yard by a previous owner. Nothing like having a huge obelisk-y trunk right outside the backdoor.

This past spring in a severe windstorm, the 60-footer didn’t fall, but it dumped 35 fronds en masse in a huge crash. No damage, but cleaning them up was really fun, what with each between 5-6 feet long and having thoses sharp thorns on the sides.

By: Phyllis Harb

Phyllis Harb — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:32:02 +0000

Even worse, I heard that rats like Palm Trees. They are kind of a useless tree, but at least I don’t think they have the type of roots that uproot driveways and sidewalks.