Seattle's palm trees have been around for a long time. They are also part of the city's botanical gardens. Some of these palm trees that can be found in the gardens were planted just a few decades ago. They are part of a tradition going back to the 19th century. It is possible to trace this tradition all the way back to the beginning of the city.
The palm trees that can be seen today all came from a very small area. That makes it very difficult for them to spread out like they would like to. However, if you want to plant one of them on your own you will be able to get them relatively cheap. That is because they are quite resilient and a hardy species that can grow up to twelve feet in height.
A palm tree is a cactus like plant that usually grows in the tropical and subtropical climates all over the world. The Seattle area is much different though. In fact, Seattleites have adapted the palm tree to an unusual and beautiful form. Here are some examples of what you might like to do with the tree.
Pictures are perhaps the best thing about palm trees. If you have taken a picture with your digital camera in the past few years you are probably familiar with the program, Adobe Photoshop. It is the program that allows you to crop, rotate, flip, and enhance your pictures.
One creative use for a crop and rotate feature is to turn one of the palm trees from the Seattle area into a sentence. The sentence could be "The palm trees in Seattle are a reminder of a place that is gone." Or it could be "A few hours ago, a palm tree stood in the middle of a giant lake. Now it is just a plain gray building."
Another interesting experiment is to take one of the trees from the Seattle area and try it as a sentence. Here is a sample sentence using the crop and rotate technique: "I took a picture of this palm tree in Seattle. It is a reminder of a place that is gone." You could also add in other words such as "a giant lake" if you wanted to emphasize the lake and the trees that once stood there. Now that you know some of the things you can use words like "cliff", "thousands" or "sail away" to emphasize certain parts of the sentences.