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GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Grow a palm indoors for a taste of the tropics

Palm trees are to Florida what tulips are to the Netherlands. Or sugar maples to northern Ontario.

Palm trees are to Florida what tulips are to the Netherlands. Or sugar maples to northern Ontario.

It is intriguing, then, to see palm trees happily growing at the northern shore of Kitsilano Beach in West Vancouver.

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Son Ben, who works for the City of North Van, tells me the variety is windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) and they were planted by the dozens near English Bay, after a staff gardener discovered them growing in a colder region of northern China.

Unless climate change continues to........

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