Q. I moved here a year ago and have yet to figure out what this tree needs to thrive.  I located and uncovered the drippers to make sure it was getting enough water.  I removed a lantana and a Mexican bird of paradise that I thought might be robbing it of moisture.  I think I may need to rake back the rock and provide mulch around the base. It puts out new growth, but it soon turns brown and the tree looks pretty sad.  I thought that leaving a few of the dead fronds may provide the new growth with shade.  So far that hasn’t helped. The tree is in the east side of the house and gets morning sun.  It is shaded by the house to the west and a large palo verde tree on the south side of the house.  Any help would be a life-saver.  My other palms seem to be thriving, but this little guy is sick. A. It looks like a windmill palm. What I’m looking at looks exactly like a lack of water. I hope you are not watering every day. You should give plants like this a long burst of water and then hold off before you water again. In the summer this might be 2 or 3 days apart. In the winter this could be a a week to 10 days apart.  Windmill Palm and Drought Windmill Palm will have leaf scorch a little bit in our climate but not that much. If that exposure is on the south or west side of the house it’s probably a bad location for it because of the heat reflected off of the house and also the rock below the palm. That location can be very hot.  What Todo You can get some of that leaf scorch to disappear by adding more drip emitters around the palm and making sure that it gets enough water. I am guessing that your palm should receive about 15 gallons each time it’s watered. I would have at least 4 drip emitters under that palm, located about 18 inches from the trunk. The amount of water depends on how many minutes the drip operates. Let’s say you have it watering for 60 minutes. Then you would need for drip emitters that are 4 gallons per hour located under the palm tree. If your system is on for 30 minutes then I would have 6 drip emitters under the canopy and these are the 5 gallon per hour. Another alternative is to not use drip emitters but a coil of drip tubing circling the tree.  .Let’s again say you are running it for 60 minutes. This tubing would be connected to your irrigation supply line and be about 15 feet long. The tubing would have emitters embedded in the tubing 1 foot apart and they would be 1 gallon per hour emitters. If you are watering for 30 minutes, then use a coil 30 feet long circling the Palm multiple times. The tubing would be put under the rock. In any regard, the problem appears to be not enough water is being applied.