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Originally Posted by Nixxxed
The other unfortunate thing about palm trees: roaches. 
There are 2 20-foot Queen Anne palms in the back yard around the pond. As I was pruning them a couple of weeks ago, I inadvertantly ripped off one of the old branch collars (the bottom part of the limb that remained attached to the trunk after last year's pruning). Since I was on a stepladder with a 10-foot pruning stick, I was treated to a cockroach shower as a whole colony of them living underneath the branch collar was dumped onto my head as the collar came off.  |
Ok. My heart just stopped. Completely.
That? Is among my absolute worst fears. I HATE roaches. I know they can't hurt you etc...but omg how I loathe them.
And from this moment on, Deanna no longer likes Palm trees either *shudder*