Anyone in California bored?

Anyone in near the Visalia / Porterville area interested in palms and and really bored can come help me on my latest project! Just kidding but would anyone be interested in pictures of a canary palm trimming, removal and replant? Today I purchased 4 canary palms I will be trimming and moving to my back yard and thought if anyone was interested I could take pictures as we go. Trunk sizes as far as we can tell are 3, 4, 10 and 12 feet. This makes them approx 10-25 feet tall fyi. Let me know and I will take some pictures. I will be moving these myself instead of paying a company to move them. I can save about $4000 do the digging and hiring the crane myself.

Greg

Greg,

Just go right ahead and post. It's always worth a record of something like that. What a big job! If I were you, I wouldn't do it without a camera. I'll put this thread on my watch list.

Wow! This sounds like a really major job. I have a huge one in my front yard http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/10847/ Let me know if you want to come get it. ;-}

That's one huge palm tree Potemup - I never realized that your home grew up under a palm tree. :-)

My home and a whole lot of others grew up under palm trees. The California Nursery http://fremontica.com/roadside/cnco.htm was moved here in 1884 and provided the palms for the 1915 Pan American Exposition. http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/ppie/index.html It is a bit hard to see in the photo, but the palm must have rooted from a boxed palm. About 4 ft of the base of the plant is exposed root.

Thanks! That was a fun ride through history. No wonder that Palm is such a monster. Me thinks that you'd need quite a truck to move it now though. LOL

xcrytonx, where did you buy the Canary palms? I got a quote from a nursery in Pt. Richmond at $600 per trunk foot.. And I'm not even sure if that includes installation.

greg, never bored! but would love to see photos of your project!

cheers!

Bring it on amigo!

I've moved my share of giant palm trees......enjoy the bloodletting...lol. Be sure to take pics of the backhoe, the crane, the semi truck and as a bonus the truck going over the scales at the weigh station...lol. Backfill, of course, will be pure coarse sand to settle the palm I'll bet. This is something I don't miss at all. I'm jazzed for you "saving" all that money, but don't forget to sulfur the crown when you plant it. Rot is a huge problem for P. canariensis and I don't know if pink is there in visalia, but please spend an extra 5 bucks and buy a pound or six of dusting sulfur and dust the crown at planting time. Have you read any of Dr. Orr's books on palm transplanting?

Best of luck,
don