Dead fronds and seed pods off, trunks skinned clean — in Los Angeles and all around it.
Palms are their own trade. They are tall, the work is all done off the trunk, and what comes off — dead fronds, seed pods, and the old boots on the trunk — is heavy and lands hard. On a street palm that means the drop zone matters more than the cut does.
Left alone they get dangerous in a specific way: dry fronds and seed pods come down on cars, roofs and people, and a skirt of dead fronds is where rats and fire both like to start.
We take the dead fronds and the seed pods, and we skin the trunk where the old boots are still attached, which is what gives a palm that clean finished look rather than a shaggy one.
What we do not do is over-trim into a pencil point. Cutting green fronds above the horizontal starves the palm and weakens the top against wind, and a palm cannot regrow a crown the way a tree can. If somebody has been doing that to yours, we will say so.
On a street palm we work out where the fronds can land before we go up. That is most of the planning on this job.
Cars, walkways and anything below get moved or covered first.
Dead fronds and pods off, and the trunk skinned where it needs it.
Everything into the truck the same day. Palm fronds do not compost quietly in a side yard.
Raeford, Fayetteville and the towns around them are not one market — a Fort Bragg rental turning over, a brick ranch off Bragg Boulevard and a new build in Hope Mills are three different jobs.
Tell us what the tree is doing — over the roof, dropping fronds, too big for the yard. Send a photo on WhatsApp if that is quicker. English or Spanish.
Call (323) 970-0745