How to get rid of palm trees

[BigGingerBob]

I've got two palm trees outside our new house. I think they look great but they're a pain in the ass hitting us on the face when we walk past getting us and our baby wet when it's raining.

My wife also hates palm trees for some reason so they have to go!

Apparently their roots can be a total arseache to deal with. We have access to a 7.5 tomme lorry with a giant to get them off the land. They're very close to the house.

Pic from sales brochure below



What does everyone suggest?

[Jeremy-75qq8]

If you are n Surrey I will take them off your hands !

[Juan B]

If you just cut them down as low as possible and then done some low level planting to hide the remaining little stumps?

[BigGingerBob]

Juan B said:

If you just cut them down as low as possible and then done some low level planting to hide the remaining little stumps?

I was under the impression they grew back like weeds?

I'm in Devon!

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BigGingerBob said:

Juan B said:

If you just cut them down as low as possible and then done some low level planting to hide the remaining little stumps?

I was under the impression they grew back like weeds?

I'm in Devon!

Nope.

We had one cut down in the corner of our garden at our old house and it never regrew.

[Evanivitch]

Just chop down and put some stump killer on it.

[OutInTheShed]

If they've not been there long, they might be easy to dig out and some person with more cash than taste might buy them for actual money.

I'm not a great gardener, but I've done OK with a few things, dig it up, whack it in a pot and see if it dies or not, if it lives, rehome it.
You might at least recoup the cost of buying a couple of plants you like.

I don't like palm trees, but those look healthy and pricey to me.

We had a couple of less nice ones which were not looking so happy, not hard to dig out.

[ozzuk]

I dug a few of these out last year, some single trunks ones (large than that) and one large multi-fronded/trunked one. Hard work for sure, but not that deep rooted, I dug around roots, hit the cr*p out of root ball with axe/mattock, the multi one came apart in chunks, the single trunk I left enough to leverage it out.

[Chipstick]

They look like cordylines.

In my experience they have always grown back from nothing when they've broken off at the base.