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6. "Are those palms plastic?"

Did you read the linked article?

“But it’s the palm trees — now numbering eight across the front and back yards — that really get noticed.

Planting palm trees was a gamble and, at $500 each for the first five, an investment.

While the windmill palms Prall started planting in 2014 are more resilient to the cold than other types, New Kensington is still outside their zone, and Prall has to protect them so they survive the winters.

From mid-November to early March, Prall boxes the palms up and keeps them warm with old-fashioned incandescent Christmas lights. Remote thermometers monitor their temperature.”