I’ve always been a sucker for fountain-form plants, which explains my affinity for palms. Among the first palms I planted on moving to Florida was a Chinese fan palm, then known as "Chinese fountain ...

As Tovah Martin notes in Once Upon a Windowsill, “When the Victorians first laid eyes on palms in the great public gardens, it was definitely love at first sight.” Gardeners’ “frond-ship” with indoor ...