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Tier 3 · Advanced

For the palms you cannot afford to lose

Advanced is the full program for high-value, disease-susceptible palms. It is everything in Standard, plus protective root and bud drenches against palmetto weevil and lethal bronzing. For palms where a single loss is the expensive outcome, this is the tier that earns its keep.

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Sylvester date palms lining a roadway

The palms most often raised to Advanced

Every palm enters at Monitor. Our arborist most often recommends Advanced for Sylvester, Medjool, Canary Island date and Bismarck palms. Sylvester, Medjool, and Canary Island date palms are slow-growing, expensive, and susceptible to both Fusarium wilt and lethal bronzing. Bismarck palms are slow and costly to replace as well. Signature palms are slow to grow and costly to replace, and a replacement never brings back the years of growth. The arborist makes that call on inspection; species is guidance only. A palm that is both valuable and susceptible should not stay on monitoring alone, because the cost of losing one is far higher than years of care.

SylvesterMedjoolCanary Island DateBismarck
What is included
✓ Everything in Standard
✓ Protective root and bud drenches against palmetto weevil and lethal bronzing
✓ Full inspection and documentation
Cadence: 4 times a year for commercial and HOA. 6 times a year for residential.
A drench after a storm or freeze is billed separately.
At every tier: a disease call is confirmed in a lab first (a Ganoderma conk confirms itself), and every treatment visit is recorded on body camera.
How we manage them

What the full program actually looks like

Advanced is not more injection. It is more vigilance, more confirmation, and more proof that the work was done.

A technician applying canopy spray for vector control
Feed and protect first

Nutrition built for the palm, plus protective root and bud drenches against palmetto weevil and lethal bronzing. We strengthen and defend before we ever consider injecting.

A Bismarck palm with a collapsed, dead crown from palmetto weevil, standing next to healthy Bismarcks
What we are protecting against

Palmetto weevil can collapse a Bismarck's crown, often before the damage is visible from the ground. Once the crown is gone, the palm cannot be saved. Advanced exists to catch that risk early on the palms that carry it.

Checking a palm trunk up close in the field
Verify every treatment

Crews wear body cameras during treatment. A protocol that calls for nine to twelve injection sites and gets three is a failed treatment, even when the work order says complete.

Lethal bronzing is the reason this tier exists
The high-value Phoenix palms on this list are the ones lethal bronzing hits hardest, and it has no cure. Our protocol is built around catching it early, confirming it, and limiting its spread. Read our lethal bronzing protocol.
A Canary Island date palm with browning lower fronds at a community entrance
A Canary Island date palm at a community entrance. The landscaper read it as underwatering. It tested positive for lethal bronzing at the lab.
A palmetto weevil larva in chewed tissue inside a Bismarck palm
A palmetto weevil larva inside a Bismarck palm. The larvae feed around the bud, where the damage is hard to see from the ground.
A lift beside a storm-damaged palm, with our truck below
After a storm, a lift puts the crew at the canopy. Damaged canopies are sprayed and the bud can get a protective drench, billed separately.

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Every palm enters at Monitor. The arborist raises it from there.

Monitor

4 a year for communities, 6 for homes
  • A visual by trained eyes every visit
  • A visual check of every palm and tree for threats
  • Early flags before a problem becomes a loss
  • The data that tells us when to act

For resilient palms like Sabal, and any community with nothing in place today.

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Standard

4 a year for communities, 6 for homes
  • Everything in Monitor
  • A nutrition program built for the palm
  • As-needed treatment of issues found
  • Full inspection and a photo of every palm, each visit

For mid-value palms such as Foxtail, Royal, and Alexander.

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Advanced

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4 a year for communities, 6 for homes
  • Everything in Standard
  • Protective root and bud drenches against palmetto weevil and lethal bronzing
  • Full inspection and documentation

For high-value, disease-susceptible palms (Sylvester, Medjool, Canary Island Date, Bismarck) and signature placements.

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Protect your signature palms in the plan.

Start with the free master plan. Our trained field team maps and rates every palm, and an ISA Certified Arborist places the palms that belong on Advanced in one plan for 10 years.

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