Queen Palm Trimming

[Rubberboots]

Looking for different types of trimming anyone can share ..saw this the other day ..clean and more uniform look...🤙🏿 please share if you have a unique way of trimming your queens... greatly appreciated!!!

[Harry’s Palms]

All of mine are smooth trunks now and too tall for me to trim. I have a service once a year just before the Santa Ana winds start. Harry 

[Rubberboots]

@Harry’s Palms photos of their trimming please?

[Harry’s Palms]

‘This is about as much as I let them trim the Syagrus . This is the only one in the front of the house and the only pic I have after trimming. The shorter one next to it is a Roystonia Oleracae and it is self cleaning.  I don’t let them trim anything else except for the huge Washingtonia at the bottom of the hill. All my other Syagrus look about like this one after the tree service finishes. Harry

[peachy]

I don't have any Queens now since they were declared a weed and not allowed to be sold in my state but when I did have them they were left strictly  'au natural'.  Well watered and well fed, they get a thicker trunk and strong green lovely leaves. When a leave died and wasn't falling off fast enough to suit me, it was easy enough to pull off.  (grab hold and act like cheeta).  Why start chopping into a palm that with a bit of care looks magnificent all by itself.

Peachy

[Harry’s Palms]

@peachy I have a visual right now , and it is pretty entertaining! You swinging on the end of a stubborn frond , that’s pretty fun. You are right about over trimming , or trimming at all. Right now the Syagrus are full and beautiful . I told my neighbor that I would come over and trim a huge frond that is hanging over the fence and he said “don’t you dare!” He loves the shade. They really are great at creating a canopy in a hurry ( super fast growers) . The only reason I trim is to keep our 90+ mph desert winds from breaking the fronds plus the trimmers have a way of getting all those nasty flower spathes prior to opening and creating a mess.. Otherwise they are full 9 months of the year. The trim in the pic doesn’t last long . They get lots of water so they grow out by the end of the windy season. Harry

Pulling a flower spathe while my neighbor cuts . The wind allowed us to get to it without cutting into the fronds. Normally the fronds are hanging down and it would be difficult to get to the spathe.

[Rubberboots]

@Harry’s PalmsI enjoy the canopy and shade...but when I start seeing toasty palm leaves...im cutting...makes my trees look shitty personally.