Palm Trees of Vancouver!

[trofirhen]

Personally, I love the palm trees of Vancouver and am very pleased to see them growing on street sides, and in parks and gardens. That said, they are almost all "trachycarpus fortunei" or 'Windmill Palm,' and it gets a little monotonous.
I wish pindo palms could survive here, but they are not quite cold-tolerant enough to grow as easily as the ones we already have.

Secondly "trachycarpus" likes cool, temperate summers, and rain, and can tolerate winter cold snaps, as they are native to the lower slopes of the Himalayas and mountains of southern China.

The palm tree seen on Google Maps may have been a "Washingtonia Robusta" which line many Los Angeles streets, but are not cold-tolerant enough to grow here, and prefer hotter summers, being native to NW Mexico.

(Love to see some more variety though; it's always the same thing).