Coconut Palms or Royal Palms for my backyard re-landscape????

Do a mix of coconuts and triangle palms. With royals, In a few years all you will see are telephone poles.

 

Fred - you should go with rosy palms!

 

Definitely Coconut palms. Christmas palms are also nice and take up less space, although they are kind of messy. I have a friend with a good nursery that could talk to you about them.
BT

 

We had Royal Palms in front and coconut in the back... which were problematic when they EXPLODED with pollen onto us and into the pool-- so if you've got a pool be weary.

 

Fred, foxtail palms look great. They are nice and full, look just like the name says.

 

Think scale. Unless you have a very big house, royal palms will make your front look very small.

 

Make sure that you take there full size into consideration when you plant them.

When the houses in my neighborhood were built, they put 3 palm trees in each front yard and they looked nice.
Now 10 years later, they are tall enough to hit the house and do major damage in the event of a hurricane.
Our normally strict HOA has not forced anyone to replace the ones that came down or died to since they now realize that planting them close to the house or near a road or driveway is a mistake.

Coconut Palms may cause the coconuts to be thrown as projectiles in a hurricane too, but then if you pick the coconuts and make pina coladas before the storm, you wont care what happens.

 

Now thats the way to think guys!
Turkey palms are nice...but so are ponytail palms. Both must be planted in greater numbers than your thinking but don't really take up much space. Rather sort in height for many years, you night be better off with these, they look nice and they are native to the area...so now worries for freezes.

 

He will have that problem regardless of the trees he uses



Armando

 

i'd say it depends on what your trying to achieve.

cocos have a wider spread frond. if you want privacy more so than a view, go with a coco.

if you want a little more formal, more for the tree itself, versus the shade of privacy screen it provides, go with royals.

i have both, but in different applications. hope my post helps.

 

not true, royals are slow growing and of course it depends on the amount of wood on the tree they install.

 

I'd keep the same hairy palms you have and add a couple triple Robalinis.

 

Fred, IMO royal palms lend a stately look to any residence; coconut palms are nice, but the nuts become a nuisance and and a danger if they fall on someone's head.
They are also easily affected by a desease that turn them yellow and eventually kill them.

 

fred i have palms galore, feel free to come by and look how i set up my cocos and my royals...i like a da trees.

 

LOL! I guess he will not be inviting yuou over for pot roast anymore!!!

BT

 

Royal Palms. I have 3 in the front of my house.

 

Such a versatile joke...
You can apply it to almost any innocent comment.
Paulie should get a trophy for enduring such things!
At least he did not have to hear "Is your uncle named Dick" a million times in grade school....

BT