When Carol Mulcahy couldn’t keep her decades-old palm alive in her yard on Los Altos Road in Pacific Beach she did the next best thing. With the help of a local tiki carver, she turned it into a work ...

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Q: I have a palm tree that is starting to shed its outer layer. It looks terrible. We were told about 10 years ago not to skin palm trees because of borers. Is this correct? A: I am not sure which ...

Our 20-plus foot palm tree has a hole the size of a baseball. We discovered it upon returning to our home after being away for three weeks. It is oozing sap. We’ve had two opposing opinions as to what ...