A fully grown Mediterranean fan palm is about 20 feet tall and 20 feet wide, unless it is pruned regularly to get rid of all the basal stems. You would need quite a large area to give it a home.

Mediterranean fan palm has multiple trunks that grow so slowly that it takes many decades for them to grow beyond reach. Nasty sharp thorns on their petioles make pruning difficult but not impossible.

“The Mediterranean fan palm grows in a habitat with many of our favorite Mediterranean garden plants, like olives and rosemary,” he says.

Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) is cold-hardy to about 15 degrees. It is a nice, small-growing palm that had no problems in protected spots but had some cosmetic damage in some gardens.

A few palms, such as the Mediterranean fan palm, bamboo palm and queen palm, produce suckers at the base and form clumps of multiple trunks. It is OK to remove selected trunks to control width or ...

MEDITERRANEAN FAN PALM [CHAMAEROPS HUMILIS] Only palm native to Europe. Unlike flagpole American palms, is multi-trunked, low growing and stays low, forming an attractive thicket.

Creating a Mediterranean garden can transform your outdoor space into a lush, vibrant paradise reminiscent of southern Europe. These gardens are characterized by their drought-tolerant plants ...

Always ask how hardy a palm is before you purchase it. This is particularly important when planting palms on the north shore. Ideally, palms should be hardy down to 15 degrees.

A few palms, such as the Mediterranean fan palm, bamboo palm and queen palm, produce suckers at the base and form clumps of multiple trunks.

Some are fan-shaped while others are feather-shaped. Palm trees have fibrous root systems that do not go deep, but rather spread widely like a mat into the top 12 to 36 inches of soil. The root ...

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...