Tucked into a massive bridge and road improvement project, the city has ordered 128 Medjool date palm trees that cost $4,500 apiece. It's a price unheard of in Fort Myers ...

A date palm tree can strike an imposing figure in any backyard. The slow-growing trees can grow as single or multi-stemmed ...

Budget shortfalls? Check. Severe drought? Check. Expensive Medjool date palm trees on Fourth Street N? Check. Hold on. Didn't Pinellas Park come under fire last year for importing 14 non-native ...

All 110 palms, which are reaching the end of their lifespans, are being replaced by date palms that will produce Medjool dates for the annual campus harvest.The new palm trees will also provide ...

Death rites for the two $10,000 mature medjool date palm trees came in the form of a chainsaw on Monday. All that remained by afternoon were two mounds of sawdust. The trees, ...

Native to Morocco, Medjool dates come from the date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) and are now grown in warm regions of the United States, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.

“I started my date farm in 1989 when I first planted 200 trees,” said Rogers. He now has over 8,000 date palms that produce about a million pounds of Medjool dates every year.