Today is my half birthday! Woo hoo! I am 55.5 years old! Isn’t that AWESOME?
There is a garden bed along the garage in the front of my house. It has pygmy date palm trees in it which I hate. They are too big, they constantly have dying leaves on them, and they have giant spikes on the leaf stems. I wish they were gone. Some day they will be. Some day.
In the meantime, I’ve decided that the raised bed would look neater if I removed all the other plantings in it. I pulled everything out except a hydrangea bush. it was too big for me to get, and its roots are all tangled up with the palms.
Here’s the before and after:
Happy half-birthday!!!
Now…questions about your hated trees:
1. Are these two plants or four? I wonder if they split once they erupted from the soil or just happened to grow too close to one another to grow straighter than they did.
2. Do these trees at least produce edible dates? I ask because for years now our fig bush/tree/thingy only yields rock-hard nuggets that never ripen…so sad. Nice big leaves for shade…for our neighbor now…but that’s about it.
3. Wish you could have kept the smaller growth and uprooted the palms instead? Yea…me, too.
Carol,
1. They are two plants. Both used to have three trunks, because that’s how pygmy date palms usually come. The third trunk was cut off of both plants because they were growing into the wall of the garage.
2. No on the dates being edible. They are tiny little things. Actually, I don’t know if they are edible or not. Maybe I should try them some time.
3. Yes, the smaller growth was nice, but it was unkempt. I took it out so I would maybe encouraged to address the trees sooner. Or maybe I will replace the smaller growth with something simpler.
(Thank you for the trivia answers. 🙂 )
Well done! I agree about removing the trees, if only because they are SO close to your foundation. That can’t be good.