{"id":2923,"date":"2009-08-12T18:49:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/cutting-back-the-california-fan-palm\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:59:43","slug":"cutting-back-the-california-fan-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/cutting-back-the-california-fan-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Back the California Fan Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tree-trim.jpg' title='tree-trim.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tree-trim.thumbnail.jpg' alt='tree-trim.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>Last weekend, I had the onerous task of trimming back an aggressive California Fan Palm in the back yard. I put this off hoping for a low marine overcast day to keep me cool while working. As luck would have it, the overcast burned off shortly after sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I got out the electric chain saw and started in on this beast. After having the chain jump off of the track once early on, I readjusted the tension and generated two green bins worth palm fronds.<\/p>\n<p>The image is the before and after. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that this is an aggressive tree. These start growing in cracks in the sidewalks, between ties in the local railroad tracks, out of the sides of other trees &#8211; places you would find hard to believe. In fact, most of the local gardeners and tree trimmers consider them as weeds. <\/p>\n<p>Another &#8216;feature&#8217; is the presence of extremely sharp spikes that line both sides of the frond stems. See <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/damsels-boo-boo\/\">this post<\/a> from March 2007 (content warning &#8211; gross injury depicted). <\/p>\n<p>The act of trimming this tree is only a prerequisite to taking it down. Damsel has asked me to get ALL of these out of the yard and I agree that it needs to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I had the onerous task of trimming back an aggressive California Fan Palm in the back yard. I put this off hoping for a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}