Desert Palms doing ok here.

Those Phoenix dactylifera look great! Where are they located?

They have two groups of these in a subdivision by the Golf Course. Identical design round a bouts. You go around one and if you go right for a block...its like the twilight zone- seems as if you are right back where you started..only its the second, and THAT one leads you out. Spooky!

Is it in Hayward?

The Hayward Golf course on Industrial Blvd. Also off of Mission bldv.

Ok. I know where that is located. That's great! Hayward has always been anti-palm!(for some reason). This is why I moved to Fremont where they plant palms everywhere (when I lived there). :>)

Fremont and San Jose...and now San Francisco. Street King palms- seen that on the news a few times. More then just one street too.
Haywards city landscaper.. I tried to get hold of him once -as I recall,he had a dead email address.

Sounds like Hayward! LOL! :>) As you can tell I have a love-hate relationship with the city of Hayward! It has one of the best climates and soil for tropicals and palms in the SF Bay Area.

I know the last time in San Francisco (June 2015). I remember seeing Kings, Kentias, used as street trees. I was actually shocked to see so many. I used to know where there were Kentias and Kings. It just appears more are being planted. I also saw tons of Pygmy dates. They love the climate there, also!

The first time (so many years ago) I saw Ficus lyrata growing outside was in the Mission District of San Francisco on the south-side of a brick building. It was around 20'. I was amazed! I remember it survived the 1990 freeze. Well, because The City didn't get as hard hit as the rest of the Bay Area. I couldn't even tell where it was located, today. God, I wish we had digital cameras back then! :>)

I just read that somebody said he saw a 25' Ficus benjamina in San Francisco. Nothing will die of cold in San Francisco..you have to wait out the growth in summer. But it happens. You and I Andy, know there are some awesome tropicals in a city thats never thought of as warm.

I was trying to donate one of my Ficua macrophylla's to Chabot.
I might try again. Hayward takes the "who cares" about everything. They even cemented over a curb that scientists had studied for years. Did you read that in the news?

That would be awesome to have a huge old (one day) Ficus macrophylla at Chabot College!

Yes, I did read about about the USGS earthquake movement study on the cement curb. LOL! That's Hayward for you! LOL! :>)