Almost ten years ago, when I started my garden, my landscape designer talked me into planting five large Phoenix canariensis (Canary Island Date Palm). He said that there was not a better show-piece tree that could be found for a San Diego yard. He said they were easy to care for and low maintenance past cutting off dead…
Expensive tree removal thanks to Canary Palm Fusarium Wilt
![Canary Island Date Palm with Fusarium Wilt](http://www.marriedtoplants.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/canary-island-date-fusarium-wilt-example.jpg)