Got your money's worth?

[aztropic]

These guys sure did! Time again for spring trimming and massacring of palms in Arizona.  

 

aztropic

Mesa, Arizona 

[Billy]

Ha! They recently butchered a triple kentia in my neighborhood leaving one with only the spear. Such a shame when they do this to "save time and money." A lot of times they're so aggressive they end up killing the palm. Neither the homeowners nor the "gardeners" have a clue what they're doing. C'mon people! Let's help make the world a more beautiful place.....

[Darold Petty]

I have seen adult, trunked Howea palms removed for trivial and incorrect reasons.   In my neighborhood there once was a home for sale, featuring two Howea forsteriana palms perfectly sited at the home entrance, one on each side of the foyer.  After the house was sold, they were cut down immediately. 

My palm mentor, the late Garrin Fullington, rang the doorbell and inquired  "What happened to those palms ?  I was going to offer you $2000 for each one."    

At a church on Guerrero street there was a planter bed about 5 x25 feet.  It has a H. forsteriana, about 8 or 10 feet of trunk, at one end.  Some plant on the far end was diseased, and the gardener recommended that all the plants be cut down.  ( I know this story because I asked the sisters myself.)     

[Palmarum]

Gah....

Pay-per-leaf strikes again.

Ryan

[Silas_Sancona]

26 minutes ago, Billy said:

 Neither the homeowners nor the "gardeners" have a clue what they're doing. C'mon people! Let's help make the world a more beautiful place.....

Home owners might... not be cued in to the damage over trimming can do. " Gardeners"??  many know, and don't care.. All they care about is squeezing as many $$'s out of an unaware homeowner as they can get away with,  using used car salesman-esque "scare" tactics..

..It's much like the "Lion Tailing" done to native / other trees here.. With all the information out there on how this practice damages them,  it shouldn't be allowed. But, it continues..

[DoomsDave]

Yike! Someone oughta slap em!

[Visgoth]

I've had phoenix roebelenii on my property for over 20 years. Always trimmed them personally and would usually give them a slight (or heavy) lion tail till I started getting into plants and palms. Like anything lion tailing isn't something you even think about till you know better, it just looks "good" and your neighbors do it too so... I didn't even know that's what it was called until I got into all this. Now that I know better, they've never looked nicer tbh. Say what you will about their overabundance of course. but they do form a gorgeous and huge near totally green skirt if you treat them well. Even the old fronds on mine keep almost all their green now for huge amounts of time.

Now that I'm aware that its detrimental, seeing trees get lion tailed is always sad. Recently a neighbor drastically lion tailed their pair of old - at least around 80 years - Southern live oaks. A single good hurricane passes through here and they are toast, or heavily damaged. 80+ years obliterated just like that because they hired unscrupulous trimmers. Meanwhile all the other oaks of similar size survive with minimal damage.😓

[PalmatierMeg]

19 hours ago, aztropic said:

These guys sure did! Time again for spring trimming and massacring of palms in Arizona.  

 

aztropic

Mesa, Arizona 

AAACCCKKK! My eyes. I’m totally blinded now.

Locally many people do the same hack job to native Sabal palmettos that evolved to survive high winds.

There’s a place in He!! For people who perform or pay for such butchery.

[Tracy]

19 hours ago, aztropic said:

Time again for spring trimming and massacring of palms in Arizona. 

 

Isn't this considered indecent exposure in Arizona?  😱😨