Comments on: When A Palm Tree Isn’t A Palm Tree

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:23:31 +0000

Evan,

We are seeing more cell towers as Saguaro Cactus around town since I wrote this post, but still no palm trees.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:25:39 +0000

I see those in Phoenix all over the place

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:22:24 +0000

Garrett,

We just got one a couple of month ago that is a giant Saguaro cactus. It comes with the hole in it for the birds. Fake cactus, yep fake hole. They do make cell towers easier on the eyes and landscape. I think it is a very positive way to blend into the landscape and it seems to have quieted a lot of residential resistance. It is always fun to hear people complain about poor cell service at home while picketing for no cell tower in their neighborhood.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:18:29 +0000

Yep, we’ve got those all over California, I’ve seen the ones that look like pine trees here too although the palms look nicer. They are hidden in other places you would never think. You know those huge signs on the sides of freeways advertising businesses in a shopping center? They’re in some of those too. In the mid west they put them in silos…lol. In church steeples, etc.

By: Robin Willis

Robin Willis — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:47:32 +0000

Wow! That is a very clever idea. I would love for our cell towers here in Tucson to be so cleverly disguised.

By: Michael Oliver

Michael Oliver — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:28:58 +0000

I think Tucson’s desert is one (if not) the most scenic in America. We have the majestic Saguaro’s and lots of diversity even though weâ€™re in the Sonoran Desert. Las Vegas sits in the Mojave Desert which is much dryer and plants have a hard time living there naturally.