This afternoon, I was out front of the house having a look at the top of my Mediterranean Fan Palm where like a dufus, I cut the very top off of the tree late last year I think.
Never do this again, John! It has managed to grow back now to a point where it’s not blatantly obvious that I did a hack job on the tree! Anyway, I grabbed this photo just because I could! I do seriously love anything with palm fronds on it, how about those gnarly thorns, aye?
Ouch – they look sharp. Cool photo. Isn’t it amazing how a plant will regrow? Just when we think we’ve ruined them, they turn around and start growing again!
They are deadly sharp! I pruned one of my Sago’s late yesterday, let’s see if it can grow better now that the dead fronds are gone…
Yikes, glad you know how to stay away from them and how to take care of them.
This Med Fan is mature, needs little attention except for where the trunks were cut off to thin the tree back after I purchased the home. They grow very aggressively in summer, hence me pruning those shoots trying to grow!
You’ve had a hot summer – they must like heat too!
These trees love the heat!
Looks like it’s bouncing back from the trim you gave it. And those thorns, I never realized! Wow!
Thanks, Sandra, it is but those fronds are very slow growing. The hooks are so gnarly!
Wow, those things do look wicked.
Trust me, they will bite you! A month or so ago, I was working on the tree, one of the thorns actually got my right thumb dead-on at the end of the finger. OM Gosh, that finger throbbed for a few hours afterward!! Yowzas!
Ouch! 🤬
Indeed! I still prefer anything Palm though, over anything Deciduous. The last one was that Ash tree out front that up and died a few weeks ago. I’ve cleaned up enough leaves over the years doing the grounds work back home! 😂