Comments on Whose Palm Tree Is This?

Geez...don't you know anything about Art?

I can't stand seeing palm trees in Seattle. It's up there with snow skiing in Dubai.

Also, this entire picture looks like something out of Silk Stalkings. So many dollars for so much fug. I can't deal.

There is also a palm tree that looks like its in the Palm-equivalent of Guantanamo Bay (at least on a rainy day) under I-5 in that new park between Capitol Hill and Eastlake (can't recall the name).

walk down pike towards downtown. look up as you pass (apts/condos) on your left near the convention center. palm tree central.

palm trees must be what this whole new metro natural thing is all about.

this clearly should have been another condominium. with a small retail space at ground level. using that valuable space for palm trees is ridiculous.

Palms aren't tropical plans, they just live places where it doesn't freeze. There are a couple big ones front of my apartment building. Ireland has tons of palms all over the place.

A house up on Eighth Avenue in Ballard has had a whole yard full of palm trees for a couple of decades.

It's not really any stranger than, say, roses, magnolias, or daffodils.

Maybe its related to the one further up Denny at Olive...

hardy banana trees, NZ tree ferns, palms - they're all on my list.

i noticed it. its not as bad as the crap on the N face of Qwest Field. they hired an apache artist to embellish the best place in the city for a friggin massive totem pole.

public art often isnt.

that tree is doomed in that exposed of a location....palms can survive in our climate if they have some sort of protection...that poor thing is stuck out there all alone without any sort of wind break...

With global warming, Washington will eventually become indistinguishable from California.

And Stewart will be beach front.

Yeah, I noticed that a couple of days ago. I give it 6 months, tops. Between random pedestrian vandals and asshats in SUVs who will run their bushguards over it (intentionally or not) on their way to the freeway, it won't get a chance to see if it survives the winter.

Unless they're planning to leave the chainlink fence up for several years until it gets established?

A palm tree has been living in my backyard for better than a decade. There's no problem.

Thats so weird - first thing that came to mind when I saw the picture was guantanamo bay

I THINK IT'S CUTE!

It's certainly an improvement. Perhaps this will be a streetcar stop one day.

@10 What the fuck are your credentials as a horticulturist? They fucking grow in eastern Washington!

Palm trees are awesome anywhere. That type of palm is hardy to 0-5 degrees F. In our life, it's NEVER been that cold here. I suppose you love the drab rhodys and laurels.

Fucktards.

Ever notice the one at Denney and Olive (across from Supercuts)?

I had a flashback of Los Angeles.

There are palm trees in front of the Top Pot Dounut by my place in Ravenna (35th and 70th). Hmmmmmm donuts!!!!! ((DDRROOLLL))

Hey, palms aren't native to california either. I miss my evergreens, but palms have grown on me.

Besides, it'll look kinda cool when it gets snowed on.

saw it yesterday, was thoroughly confused. I couldn't make out the writing on the land use notice to see who was responsible.

Trachycarpus fortunei is native to temperate regions of China. It is perfectly cold hardy here, but usually requires some irrigation during our summer drought (July to October).

Not only is that palm probably going to do well, I hink it's the native "washingtonia" palm used a lot at the zoo to make things look tropical.

GROTESQUE!

Sorry, but I gotta veer into politics. Before the last election, a Republican doorbeller came to my home and, noticing the palm tree in my front yard, said, "Did you know there are only 30 palm trees in Washington state."

I just thought, "ah, yes. Good ol' GOP telling you what they think you want to hear, truth be damned!"

I like this tree and the funky-fresh tiles.

there's another good palm forest at the hotel on 9th and madison.

forgot about it until i was stumbling home last night and past it.

I like this colorful happy triangle on my walk route to work. Different is better.

seattle's project for public spaces means that we end up with anything in public spaces that are ugly but endearing like the fremont troll, to disorienting eyesores like the denny palm tree.

PPS is a New York outfit. There's no Seattle PPS. What the hell are you trying to say? The link is to comments made by Jim Diers to PPS, as he has often done.

Yes and gee, lets stack old computers and junk there. That's so much better than a palm tree even if it has a Miami Vice vibe going on.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003637585&slug=brodeur27m&date=20070327

What to know what it is all about?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003637585&slug=brodeur27m&date=20070327

Palms such as the one planted near Denny and Stewart have been planted sucessfully for decades in the Seattle area. This variety called the Windmill Palm does very well in the cool Pacific Northwestern coastal climate. Seattle winters are cool but rarely cold enough the ever come close to damaging them. These trees are low maintenance and easy to care for.

The Windmill palm variety is better suited for the Seattle area than Los Angeles. Here they grow lush and healthy but in LA they actually suffer from the summer heat. Californians grow a different variety of palm, usually Washingtonias. Those are seldom seen here due to our winter moisture which rots the tree.

Indeed some areas of eastern Washington, such as the Tri Cities have mild enough winters to also grow some of the hardier varieties. It's easy to forget after a long wet winter that our climate is much milder than many areas in the eastern 2/3 of the country.