In the 1800s and 1900s, new Angelenos imported palms from elsewhere in the world. In the 1930s, the city underwent its biggest palm planting boom, with more than 25,000 palms planted in 1931 alone ...

Several palm trees will grow well here in North Texas. Some are quite winter-hardy, and all of them will grow in sun or shade. How well they grow in shady spots is a surprise to many gardeners ...

Palm trees are popular but don't help the region deal with climate change. This is part of a series of stories on climate change and how it impacts Phoenix, Arizona overall and the region's ...

West Palm Beach wants to be carbon neutral and that means getting people out of their cars and walking or biking more. To do that in South Florida, shade is a necessity.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More cities in Florida are looking at other trees besides palm trees to combat climate change and offer more shade. West Palm Beach is one city that is taking that ...

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

For a better part of a century, we placed palm trees in our most prominent lands, the tree we now associate with LA the most. ... Palms—which are, technically, not trees—don’t produce any shade.

San Diego needs shade trees, not palm treesIn many cities in the country, they are going to great expense to remove utility poles because they are not attractive. In San Diego, we have an enormous … ...

Due to climate change, Miami Beach moving away from palm trees to create more shade By Martin Vassolo. Updated February 25, 2021 6:59 PM.

The city is adding 29 new palm trees and 15 shade trees to the park. The nearby beachwalk project will involve the removal of 183 palms and the addition of 433 shade trees.

Palm trees offer far less shade, Baraloto said, and their smaller root system means they soak up less of the floodwaters already threatening to overwhelm Miami Beach streets and homes.

The new palm trees will also provide more shade. After asking for opinions from ASU students, university landscape architect Byron Sampson said that people wanted more shade on campus.