How and why to care for Mexican fan palms
I don't have any Mexican fan palms here at the tropical paradise for two reasons, personally I prefer the look of a date palm (which is why I have sago palms, because they look like miniature date palms), and the other reason is, you guessed it, I simply don't have the room. Fan palms and date palms just get too big for my suburban lot, and would just look like telephone poles in my backyard. By the way, I do have fan palms, but they're med palms, which are smaller. Anyway, Mexican fan palms grow like weeds anywhere from Phoenix to Modesto. And I'm not just trying to be poetic here, you actually see them sprouting up in the cracks of sidewalks, in empty lots, and they grow just fine. Sometimes too good! But before you start turning up your nose at these plants, which have been very common in cultivation for many decades, I'd like to remind you that they're the famous very tall palm trees in Beverly Hills. Yep, those are Mexican fan palms. Washingtonia rob...