Our palm panoply extends to the ritzy Canary Island date palm, the pygmy date and windmill palms, and a mini-monarchy of queen and king palms, which look a little haphazardly asymmetrical.

L ewis Tree Service’s Jonah Vogel rises above Bay Street in Santa Cruz to prune and do other periodic maintenance on a large Canary Island date palm. The species, Phoenix canariensis, is a ...