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.

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 ...

The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in ...

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 ...