In 1875, Los Angeles was a town of around 8,000 pe...  ...a town of around 8,000 people, and there were no palm trees in sight. The palm trees were added to make people want to come and buy la...  ...developers moved there and began building it up. Palms , already a symbol of w...

A tree named Socratea exorrhiza is better known as the E...  ...orrhiza is better known as the Ecuadorian walking palm tree . It can “walk” up to a couple of cent...  ...see how they move.“As the soil erodes, the tree grows new, long roots that find new and mor...

Sure we all want our own private i...  ...back in 2008, he built himself a floating palm island that he rowed on the River Thame...  ...ralled with the idea: I rowed my palm island down the Thames with the aim of rowing thr...

It took three months of planning, a crane, and nin...  ...anning, a crane, and nine gardeners to transfer a palm tree called a cycad to a new pot. The operation at Kew...  ...in London was difficult and delicate because the tree is considered to be the oldest potted plant in th...  ...around the globe. For t...