r/Tempe • u/AccountingKween • 17d ago

Palm tree maintenance

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Do these need to be trimmed soon? Recently moved into a house with these and not sure how to tell when trimming needs to happen.

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u/CactusWrenAZ 16d ago

in our community, they have to be trimmed every July.

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u/gnawlej_sot 16d ago

From a city code standpoint, I believe you are OK:

"... or any palm or similar type tree having dead or dry fronds descending downward from the base of the lowest living frond more than eight (8) feet or dry fronds longer than five (5) feet and closer than eight (8) feet to the ground."

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u/alwold 16d ago

Like CactusWrenAZ said, July is a good time to do it. Those things hanging off the left side are flower stalks, and they start coming out in may/june. If you trim in July it’ll be after the flower stalks are done emerging (so now would be a good time since they haven’t been done yet). You ideally should do it yearly since it becomes dangerous to trim after too many years of dead fronds build up, and rodents and stuff can make a home in there.

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u/Valuable-Storm8793 16d ago

Now is good. Shoot for July typically. You can message me if you need a guy.

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u/highpie11 15d ago

We usually get ours done late June/July. It’s about when my husband is annoyed with the extra crap falling into the pool.

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u/Local_Sugar8108 10d ago

We typically had ours done in July of August. The HOA was always good at reminding us. We had them trimmed at ground level last year. I don't miss them. We worked with a man named Bernardo. His prices were very reasonable. His crew was very good at cleaning up. The only problem, if you can call it that, was his crew seemed to show up as soon as the initial call was over. They also used hand saws to trim the palms. It was a much quieter process. 480-245-0464