Mitakoodi man Glen Oliver has nurtured a huge variety of plant species over the years, but the highlight of his career in horticulture has been discovering a new date palm.

Judging by the palm pruning being performed in our landscapes, you would think that pruning palms to a few fronds sticking out of the top of the tree is the right thing to do. Some of the ...

The palm tree isn’t really a tree. They are Arecaceae which is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and ...