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Barrie

Careful where you plant your palm tree!

Post by Barrie » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:08 pm

It's always prudent to plant your palm in a well chosen site ... to avoid this!

Cheers, Barrie.

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Post by turtile » Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:02 pm

Why didn't they move it? I guess they felt that cutting a hole through roof was easier!

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:19 am

Looks like they had no other place to put it? looks kinda cool :lol:
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:21 pm

Barrie where was that photo taken?It looks to be doing well despite the roof.

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Post by Barrie » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:33 am

I don't have any idea where the pic was taken. It was sent to me by a non-gardening friend who thought I might be amused.
As for "It looks to be doing well", it appears to have had the snot kicked out of it with the exposed location.

Cheers, Barrie.

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Post by DesertZone » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:29 pm

Barrie wrote:I don't have any idea where the pic was taken. It was sent to me by a non-gardening friend who thought I might be amused.
As for "It looks to be doing well", it appears to have had the snot kicked out of it with the exposed location.

Cheers, Barrie.
It does seem to be beat up a little, amazing they got it to grow through that hole. :?
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Post by oppalm » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:00 am

you all might have the whole thing bass ackwards. Maybe the palm tree was there first and they built the house around it.
either way - it makes for interesting conversation.
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Post by lucky1 » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:02 pm

...and it'll never fall over in a storm.
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Post by Wes North Van » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:56 am

It is amazing that people will plant palms close to their home and not consider how tall they grow. There is a motel on Capilano road were they planted three trachies right against the pool house. They eventually grew away from the building but now they are growing at an angle.
I guess people still think they will not grow here or at least very slowly.
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