What do you think of palm trees?

I like them because palm trees are about happy things...beach, sun, vacation, etc.
I'm so glad this got through!!

Me too!

i like them because there are so many different and interesting kinds and they are everywhere down here!!!!!!!!

like because I associate them with vacation

I see you're an early bird, too!

Getting ready to go to work...

Hmmm, I'm AT work

I love them with sauce Hollandaise.

I love them because when I see them it means I am on vacation and I have a nice cool beach drink in my hand.

I love them. They are pretty & if I see one it means I am in a balmy tropical climate. I am wearing a palm tree shirt today and my comforter and sheets have palm trees on them.

They remind me of beautiful warm places....mmmmm....

love

I like them because they are beautiful. We don't have any in Artesia (NM) where I live but in Carlsbad (NM) there are some. I had many of them when I lived in San Antonio, Tx.

I like some of them. When I was in LA last year, I did a little personal study of the various types of palm trees. I got my mother to tell me which ones were which type. I decided I like the date palms the best--they're shorter, generally, and they have long, somewhat uniformly slender fronds but look very bushy. I don't like the tall palms as much--I believe some of them are called Washingtonias, and I can't remember what the other type is. One type has a smoother trunk, but both are tall and skinny with rounder (for lack of a better word), shorter fronds. They're not as bushy.

I love them because they are very beautiful and one of my most favorite trees. I love looking at them when I'm walking around. I have a couple palm houseplants in my apt. as well.

I tend to associate palm trees with the tropics. When I think of palm trees, the first image that springs to mind is a sunrise I saw one morning as we were leaving Ko Samui in Thailand. At first it was very dark and I couldn't see much out the window of the bus as we drove along the edge of the beach from our hotel to the ferry dock. Then as the sun began to creep over the horizon, I saw the sky explode into beautiful colours with silhouettes of black palm trees.

I also think of places in California, like San Francisco, where they often have large boulevards lined with palm trees.

I hate them because they provide absolutely no shade at all, if the state of FL had their way that is all that would be allowed, and the damn palm fronds fall on your head!!!

...oh yeah...I'm also tired of seeing them every corner that I turn.

When I first saw this survey, it reminded me of the last family vacation we took before my mother died. A friend of ours owns a condo in San Destin, Florida. We went and spent a week there. My parents, me, Caleb, my brothers, their wives, my nieces, a a few close friends. We had a great time.

Having said that, I'm really indifferent. I don't have a love of palm trees, but I don't dislike them. They're just there. I could take them or leave them. Makes no difference to me.

I like that I am in a warm or tropical place when I see them. Other than that they mean very little to me.

They remind me of my beloved state, California.

I like any kind of tree.

I think they look nice but can look trashy in some areas.

They are really only suitable in places where it sunny.

I love anything in a tropical environment.

Jeez, you're early at work!
or am I late at work?

I them, makes me think warm weather. You don't see any here in Missouri, but I've live in climates that have palm trees. There are other palm varieties I like too that are smaller or more compact.

Well... It looks like it's just you and me Bubba! I don't like 'em!! However, being from the North; they do instill images of vacations in the sun, beaches and oceans. None of those things attract me - when we go to a park, I look for the biggest tree offering shade. When we go camping, I look for the most wooded site (I don't do that since we bought a piece of bush for ourselves!). When we take vacations, I shy away from those tropical "Club Med" type packages - I really hate those! I went to Cuba once, and didn't realize that I had to travel all that distance just to mix with a bunch of drunken Quebecers! I could have saved money and just gone downtown for that!! There were palm trees there too and they were transplanted at the resort because they didn't even grow there naturally! When I travel, I like to see the indigenous plants, meet the real people not the polished ones offered to the tourists etc... I can't stand heat - I'm a real Northerner - I'd rather be in a cool, fresh bushy place searching for edibles; if there ever was a "Survivor" show in the North - I know I would be a great asset!!

I like them because they look great, usually. I don't like Washingtonia palms because the dead fronds hang over the trunk and it looks scruffy. It's also a fire hazard. I love foxtail palms, bangalow palms and majestic palms. The Canary Is date palm is one of my favourites too, but they take a long time to grow. Cocos palms blow in the wind but they shed dead fronds everywhere. They get a little cliche in some suburbs in Australia where every house as well as the nature strip in the middle of the road is covered in palm trees. They don't provide much shade so I think shade trees should be planted in parks and on nature strips alongside footpaths.

In northern Australia there are coconut trees everywhere. City councils employ people to cut the coconuts off so tourists are not hit in the head with falling nuts.

So I take it that you aren't going to visit me in the Sunshine State during "snowbird" season ?

Just find me a real shade tree to sit beneath, a cool drink and I'm all yours!

We have some parks

I grew up around them . You need to see them on south beach in Ft. Lauderdale other than roses I think that they are a pretty tree.

I like them because they remind me of the beach and vacations,

Any beer?

What do you drink?

They're plants with funny stems and leaves....can't get too excited about them one way or another. I'm definitely an animal biologist rather than a plant one!

Molson Dry, rum and diet coke and/or red wine!

no palm trees in wisconsin *cough cough* *wink wink* *nudge nudge*

How cool would that be...SC field trip somewhat like a reunion, though we were never all together.

heheh...I'm a jackass, didn't realize it was set for irene and not you.

Star bright, Star light; I wish, I wish, I might... We all win the lottery tonight! (and go South to visit thevelvetcure!)
I bought a ticket for tonight's drawing, and you??

I love real palm trees. I'm from Ohio, and we have none here (fake/plastic doesn't count!), so when I went to Florida and saw real ones, I was in awe.

I had a dream about palm trees last night, and in the middle of it I started thinking about what I would post in this survey about seeing the palm trees up close and personal! How weird.

I never thought about it much before. They look kind of odd because there's nothing there until you get to the top. Hey! That's something like me!

our lotto is Wednesday and Saturday nights, I have to wait a bit.

Sue gets to see palm trees on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same here - didn't win...

nor I, but of course that could be greatly in part that I didn't play

Oops! That reminds me - I have to get our tickets tonight before 8 PM!

they are synonymous w. tropical paradise.

They are beautifull, When I was a kid and living in Florida, we had 3 of them in our yard..