Wait until there is significant new growth mid-summer before cutting off.

Insecticide soaps can also be used.

Certain species of palms, particularly date palms, will put out above ground roots that look like stubble around the base of the palm. Unless it’s a question of stability of the palm, air roots are not a problem.

If stability is a problem, soil can be mounded up around the palm. Air roots will become active again. Even arborists get it wrong sometimes. A tree can look great and green and healthy yet, when the wind blows just right wrong and maybe that wet heavy snow starts falling SNAP! A limb as big around as your body comes crashing down.

Or maybe the whole tree tips, roots tearing free from the ground, a landing to wake the neighborhood.

Then, remove the stakes to allow the trunk to flex.

Dec 07, Drive the Stakes into the Ground Use a mallet or sledgehammer to drive two or three wooden or metal stakes around the perimeter of the tree outside the root ball bushnotch.barted Reading Time: 6 mins.

Palm tree roots that are planted too shallow may grow above soil level and do not have a stable base to support the weight of the tree. Roots that are planted too deep may suffer from nutritional. Sep 14, A homeowner climbed a ladder to trim a tree branch that was dropping leaves into his above-ground swimming pool and causing a nuisance. A branch came in contact with the power line, shocking the man with a jolt of electricity and sending him into cardiac arrest.

He fell 20 feet to the ground, but was revived by medics at the scene. A few more indicators of a problem include dead branches littering the ground, fine sawdust near the base of the tree, cracked sidewalks caused by uprooting, as well as multiple trunks splitting at what looks like a “V” rather than “U” shape.