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GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Palms enjoy indoor home environments

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

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 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 spiral, we shouldn’t expect palm trees to grow in Ontario anytime soon. For........

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