Have you got palm trees in your garden?

I live in South Texas and I have a banana tree beside the house and 2 Grapefruit trees in bloom behind the house. WE are still eating Grapefruit from the crop this winter.We had banana-splits for christmas from our own tree!

Before, we had 2 coconut trees in our garden. But the one we had were the short ones, the coconut and the leaves are just in your arms reach. And when the coconut are already good for harvest, we harvest them and drink the coconut juice. Its quite refreshing. People say that the coconut is the tree of life because you can do so much from it. Nothing goes to waste. From the leaves, to the trunk, to the roots...everything is useful.

No unfornately I have no palm trees in my garden. But my sister does she lives in florida.

Well;I live in a High Rise Apartment .I wish for a Home where I could have a big or at least a reasonable sized garden of my own . However,we do have a few Parks around our place. There we have lots of Tress as well as the grass is good to walk on .

Yes, I planted Palm tree on my garden. My neighbors noticed about it already. Some are asking if they can have some so they can plant it on their gardens,too.

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We have that type of tree here, since I live in a tropical country!;) We also have those small dwarf coconut trees, were it grows for just about 5 to 6 fee from root to it's top trunk. Here, coconut trees are called the "tree of life" because every part of it, from leaves up to it's husks, are used for different purposes..

In Bali island here, we have many kind of palm tree and coconut.there are 3 kind of coconut tree. One with green color coconut, we called it "klopo ijo" we used it to detox our poison in body,and the one that have yellow coconut, common coco, we called it "klopo kuning" and another one that have little coco and shape like rugby ball its called "klopo gading" we used it for ceremony

There is no way coconuts or similar palm trees would grow where I live, in hot & dusty Adelaide. They are attractive though, & would appreciate some pretty palms. There are some very hardy palms that grow here, such a Kentia palms.

Living in an island in the Philippine archipelago, we've got different types of palm trees around in the front yard. I love palm trees and especially their fruits. Salak palm has a rich combination of sweetness and sourness and i just can't stop eating it. Buri is a tiny palm fruit as small as your pupil and the meat is chewy or gummy. Dates are not found in the Philippines but I love them too. And of course young coconut is in the top list.

I don't have any palms outside but I have some Beaucarnea guatemalensis and B. recurvata growing indoors. I wish the climate where I lived would be suitable for tropicals. Maybe one of these days. LOL

Coconut trees are quite common in my country... since we are one of the top producers of coconut products... and when i visited my mother's home province a few years back... i was in awe with the number of coconut trees planted in the different islands that we passed by... it was like coconut trees as far as the eye could see... and the fruits were so cheap that they practically gave them away for free... I hope you can visit my country one day... i can tell you the nice places that you will surely enjoy...

No, I have tropical plants in my house and plan on, if it ever gets warm here, to put them outside for the summer. I wish I could put some outside around my pond area. That would be SO nice. Thanks for the question.

If you live somewhere that you have palm trees, then it can't be all that cold, like where I live. Palm trees would never survive here in Canada so we don't have any here. Our winters go to -40C for weeks on end and the wind blows up to 100KM an hour so, no they would never grow or survive in our climate. I have seen them, though, because I have travelled some and I really like the looks of them. Do you eat the cocnuts from your trees? That would be nice since I love coconut in my baking goods. Another one I would like to have would be a pineapple tree. I love those just plain.

Sadly nothing as glamorous or tropical as palm trees in my garden, we like in the UK so palm trees are not able to grow. In our garden we have two pear trees, three apple trees and a plum tree, but sadly the plum tree has developed a nasty disease which has killed it. The cooking apples mum uses to make excellent apple sauce to go with the roast dinners! I love coconuts but wouldn't you be afraid of having a coconut tree in case you got hit by a falling coconut? If one hits you you'd soon know about it, you'd be laid out flat!

I love the palm trees, unfortunately it's to cold here to grow them.

I live in New York City so there are no palm trees here and I love them. If I ever can get out of here and move down south I will make sure I have some palm trees. I love so much.

No palm trees at all where I live. I do like them though. They are not easy to keep indoors either...or else I might have liked that. A palm tree in the kitchen would be cool

Not personally, but the guy who owns my property has two gigantic ones planted - they're all yellow now, and have been since the fall. I wonder if they can survuve in NY?! It's been down to 10 degrees farenheight here over the winter - I wasn't aware that any palm could live through that. Guess I'll find out in the summer. If it grows new fronds, I'll be a monkey's uncle. This week the supermarket has 15 or more palm trees for sale in the lobby. I can see it for a small ofice, but..outdoor planting here? NAHHHH!!! Alright, though - here goes on my research fingers: Posted by "satx318Jrs" at: http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061003181816AAyVer7 "Your choices are very limited. Your best bet is to go with the Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus Fortunei). These are very cold hardy palms, and have been known to take temperatures down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. I know of one person on long island that has one on long island in the ground now. You may also want to check out some of the cold hardy palm forums, such as the international palm society website, and other various cold hardy palm forums. There are a lot of palm growers that like to push their zone and expiriment. Some others that should grow in your area include the Sabal Minor, and the Needle Palm. Both hardy to below 0F. The cold hardiest feather palm is the Butia Capitata, hardy to around 10F. The first one I would try would be the Windmill Palm. It should survive on LI unless you had an extremely cold winter. It is hardy to USDA zone 7 (which Long Island is). It gets about 30 feet tall, and has a nice compact crown of green fronds. These palms are being grown as far north as Seattle Washington, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the United Kingdom."AWESOME!!!! Never knew that. Heh! Learn something new every day, eh?

i love those palm tree specially coconut i have one in my vacation house in philippines