11-08-2022, 09:07 PM
I'll second the no vote on the "booger-villains" as we call them. Every year we cut ours down to the ground and it keeps coming back. If you must have them, put them along a fence and keep them pruned. For ornamentals, I'd suggest ginger and heliconia instead. And although the coco palms are lovely and useful when young, ours are now huge and drop 20' fronds almost daily as well as coconuts that threaten to kill us. I'd also recommend Brazilian Cherry and Mountain Apple. Both are large, lovely dense-leafed trees that produce fruit within a few years.
Certainty will be the death of us.