La palmera se poda.

The garden's looking quite overgrown and messy after all the rain recently: one side of the house is partially blocked by rampant wisteria covered in seed pods, and the other by a huge rubber plant over 12 feet high. A monster yukka pokes you in the face when approaching the front door. Nice small pretty flowering plants fare less well and tend to wizern and die pretty quickly, however. The solitary palm tree has done what they do each year and has developed unsightly dead leaves to make way for the new ones at the top. Tree man to the rescue on that front - he shimmied up that bad boy like a rat up a drainpipe, despite the trunk swaying alarmingly when he let go to use the handsaw. Extra: an idea of how high it is.