Over the past few years, Pamela Anderson has had more time to contemplate life. That is, until things kicked into high gear again—but more on that later. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, she moved from France, sold her house in Malibu, and headed north to the small town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she was born and raised. She hunkered down with her two grown sons, Brandon and Dylan. She bought her grandmother’s old motel, renovated it, and set up her parents there. A lifelong cook, she perfected her baking skills. She reclaimed and expanded her grandfather’s garden on the same land where she had run barefoot as a self-described wild child. It’s the site of both her greatest childhood joys and harrowing traumas, which she describes candidly in her 2023 autobiography, Love, Pamela, and Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story. Almost poetically, for Pamela has journaled and written poetry her whole life, she has reclaimed her true self and her youthful creativity on the exact spot where they were born. When I had the chance to sit with her and talk over Zoom recently, our conversation quickly moved beyond her new cookbook, I Love You (due out in October), to all aspects of life—and her ability to find the deepest of meanings in even the tiniest of seeds.
How to Grow and Care for Queen Palms
19.07.2024 - 20:31 / gardenerspath.com / Joe Butler
How to Grow and Care for Queen Palms Syagrus romanzoffiana
A fast-growing, tropical tree graced with gently arching fronds, the queen palm is an aesthetic treat.
With a crown of foliage that’s not quite uniform, the queen palm has the same delightful asymmetry as a right-to-left hair part, the leaning tower of Pisa, or even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s trademark Samoan tattoos.
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Syragrus romanzoffiana also has a moderate tolerance of drought and salt spray, making the tree more than just a pretty face.
And just like the queen piece in chess, the queen palm is a very powerful asset to the tropical landscape.
Our guide to growing palm trees has all the details about other members of the Arecaceae family. In this article we’ll zero in on how to care for queen palms.
Here’s what we’ll be discussing:
What Are Queen Palms?The queen palm – aka Syragrus romanzoffiana – is a member of the Arecaceae family, alongside related plants such as parlor, fishtail, and lady palms.
The queen palm has had quite a few botanical name changes over the years.
First scientifically described in a French publication as Cocos romanzoffiana in 1822, the queen palm was also dubbed Cocos plumosa by England’s Loddiges nursery around 1825.
When a queen palm seedling found it’s way from the Loddiges nursery to England’s Kew gardens in 1840, Kew botanists thought that it was Cocos coronata instead.
But when the specimen reached maturity and produced fruit, the garden’s director Joseph Dalton Hooker officially published the botanical name as C. plumosa in 1860.
Destined to become a popular ornamental, queen palms were sold under the C. plumosa
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