Resort curved palms??

[JEFF IN MODESTO]

Of course In and Out burger has them at all their Califonia restaurants.

"Resort curved palms " Whats the story?

How do they get that way... at least in numbers enough to support all the resorts in CA and Las Vegas along with tropical themed restaurants? and hotels.

Is there a palm grower that only deals in resort curved palms, How does he

do it? Wonr what the price would be retail?

Whats the story?

[BS Man about Palms]

From what I understand, constantly tilting the pots, etc.

[waykoolplantz]

From what I understand, constantly tilting the pots, etc.

I resemble that remark

[MattyB]

I remember seeing pics of some grower in the desert who had a bunch of washingtonias all layed every which way in a large ditch. He used the sides of the ditch to lay the palm over and it corrected itself over time. Some of them had been layed over in several different directions for a really bizarre look.

[John Case]

In-n-Out burgers plants only very thin trunked W. robustas and then curves them after planting by using wires under stress, then connecting them where they cross. When ours came in here a couple of years ago, the landscape contractor told me that he had specific instructions on how to do it.

See the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger

[palmislandRandy]

Simple! Either tilt the pots, with cinder blocks/bricks or plant them at an angle! Randy

[Wai`anae Steve]

In and Out Who. Never heard of them. Am I missing something other than the cool palms?

[Patrick]

Of course the palm needs to get a little bit of trunk on it before you start tilting it.......

I tried it with a 15 gal. queen, but I PLANTED the thing at about a 60 degree angle & no trunk. Now it's about to trunk and it's corrected itself on it's own. You can't even tell I had it planted at such a crazy angle. Anything you might try would be a definite time investment.

Grow. Tilt. Grow. Tilt. Etc..

I talked to one guy who chains his truck to his queen palms when they get to about 10 or 15 feet and just pulls them over to the angle he wants, then they correct themselves from the crown. It's pretty basic, but it works.

[JEFF IN MODESTO]

In and Out Who. Never heard of them. Am I missing something other than the cool palms?

Steve... Yea... In and Out burger makes a very fine burger ( and hand cut fries ) Simple menu only has basics on it like in the good old days.

Always packed. Drive tru lines often hundreds yards long.

Easy to find though, all California stores have tall criss crossed bare trunked Washingtonias.

Jeff

[Wai`anae Steve]

In and Out Who. Never heard of them. Am I missing something other than the cool palms?

Steve... Yea... In and Out burger makes a very fine burger ( and hand cut fries ) Simple menu only has basics on it like in the good old days.

Always packed. Drive tru lines often hundreds yards long.

Easy to find though, all California stores have tall criss crossed bare trunked Washingtonias.

Jeff

All I've ever seen of Calf on the ground was in airports. La, S.F. and the airforce one near S.F. Also been to the navy base on what is it Treasure Island? Somewhere out in the bay???

Flown over it may times.

If I ever make it out of an airport I'll go look for the crossed palms

[Mark Heath]

Here in Florida, there are many curved palms due to hurricanes. Here is a XButiagrus that hurricane

Charlie bent several years ago. It will be taking a road trip to Texas soon!

[The Germinator]

In and Out Who. Never heard of them. Am I missing something other than the cool palms?

Here are a couple of pics. I saw one restaraunt where they tried to use Queens but it does not look good like the

washies.

[Tampa Scott]

Here is my L.australis after being tossed from a passing hurricane years ago.

[richard60]

I remember seeing a palm grower selling these and stubbled on the link today. Here's the link to the palm nursery in AZ that carries alot of these 'Hurricane Palms (with images as well).

http://www.whitetankpalms.com/species.html

[FRITO]

they must have some woody trunk before you can lean them over and they try to grow straight up again, keep pushing them around like the hurricanes do and you will get some cool curvy trunks.

Dasign Source has a ' carribean curves' product they sell

Edited April 25, 2010 by FRITO

[Jim in Los Altos]

I transplanted this old Archonophoenix cunninghamiana about six years ago and planted it at a steep slant. It slowly has corrected itself.

[Wanderanwills]

Wow, did not relise there are wholesale nurseries growing these massive curved palms!

Don't really see it here in Australia, only very occasionally.

But I am sure quite a few people will post photos from Australia soon as I say this?

Regards

Stephen