- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: October 28, 2013
![Canary Island date palms, like the ones in the photo above, are being planted on each end of the Bay Bridge. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/19000small.jpg)
Canary Island date palms, like the ones in the photo above, are being planted on each end of the Bay Bridge. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Thirty Canary Island date palms will create a line of tall trees on either end of the Bay Bridge, reported the San Francisco Chronicle. Eight of them were planted on the east side last week.
Reporter Michael Cabanatuan spoke to Donald Hodel, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Los Angeles County, about the trees' suitability for the Bay Area's fog, wind, salt air and water. The Bay Area climate, Hodel said, is not unlike that of the Canary Islands. The palms are well suited to grow in the San Francisco-Oakland area.
"But because of their quintessential look,...
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