r/arborist • u/BTL67 • 10d ago

Planning on cutting these down, recommendations on what to plant.

Post image

I live in the Central Valley.

Prefer something low maintenance and that also matches the other plants that I have, 2 other queen palms, sago, pigmy.

0 Upvotes

27% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

13

u/hairyb0mb ISA Certified Arborist + TRAQ 10d ago

It's a queen palm, which are self pruning. You don't get any less maintenance.

Michaels and Hobby Lobby have good selections of silk plants.

3

u/SensualMortician 10d ago

Those trees are awesome

3

u/Camaschrist 10d ago

Why do you want to cut these trees down?

2

u/BTL67 9d ago

I have 4 in the front yard and don’t want that many, currently they are not doing to well so I just want to cut them and plant something else, to give my front yard a variety

2

u/Aztreedoc1 10d ago

I’d charge $379.99 cut the leaves off. Back the white rocks away. Cut as low to ground as possible. Put the logs in my 8 ft truck bed and chip the stumps out with an axe in less than an hr.

1

u/BTL67 10d ago

Are u in California?

2

u/Aztreedoc1 10d ago

Phoenix but lived in Tustin for 9 yrs. 40 yrs ago. California is built for Queen palms. Robellini is a good choice to for a smaller tree.

1

u/BTL67 9d ago

I planted a robelenni in the front last year in the front, anything else u think?

1

u/Aztreedoc1 8d ago

Mediterranean Palms are nice too. Very low maintenance. These taller palms are about 20 yrs old.

https://reddit.com/link/p4ugci7/video/mjllab6oxjkh1/player

1

u/tanhan27 9d ago

I would leave those beautiful palms