Palm Trees

As this is often done in off season periods between January and March, I thought it might be a kind of fun idea to get you some glimpse. No, no I am not a gardener, nor do we own a big garden, but the little green lot in front of our house here in Alicante is host to one 8 meters high palm tree.

Together with some of my neighbors palm trees its really like living in a little palm tree forest. And believe it or not - looking out of my home office, the palm trees are always in my view.

Okay, back to the palm trees. Some weeks ago our gardener came by to clean up all the palm trees around.

Here is what the did. First, Miguel one of the gardeners climbed up the tree with an ordinary chainsaw to cut the dry leaves from the top of the palm tree.

Having finished the rough chain saw job, he climbs down and prepares his special cleaning tool.

This special palm trees cutter for a palm-tree-nobody like me, looks like a mixture of an axe and a knife. But what do I know...

And now starts the real hard part of the job and let me assure you, you really do not want to do this by yourself.

Miguel and his friend start to clean the stem with their razor sharp palm tree knifes. First on the ground, but than...

.. they climb up the palm tree, cutting the outside of the palm trees crust by hand.

And, after about 2 hours the are finished.

The result one of many beautiful palm trees around Alicante and the Costa Blanca.