The copper fungicide is the best, since copper is a necessary micronutrient for palsm and it helps them to recover from a cold or in your case cool winters. The other fungicide I was going to recomment to you is Triple Action 20 by Consan. I haven't used it in a while since I have gone all organic with everything, and I have lost the part of the instructions that tell how to use it with palms. I think I mixed .5 ounce of the fungicide in a gallon of water and then sprayed it on with a simple handheld spray bottle. I am not familiar with daconil, so you might want to contact your local County Extension Office and talk to the Horticulturist about using it with your palms. As far as how many times to treat your palms, I would use it once and then wait a week or two and see if it stops or slows down the leaf spotting. If not, then use it again, then stop, because with fungicide, it is possible to apply too much. John P.S. Check out my latest reply to your other post here on Garden Web. I think you and other California COCO NUTS (pun intended, LOL) will find it interesting about some palms possibly producing coconuts as far north as Puerto Penasco along the northernmost part of the Gulf Of California!

I would trim it back a bit to give it a fighting chance. I have moved heaps of trees, even when I lived North of Townsville I moved trees 3mts tall and they survived in the heat, did you cut the roots of nice and neat with the secateurs you could give it a feed with seasol thats should help the roots. Cheers..MM.

"I found a few articles that say sugar water is harmful to plants because the sugar can interfere with the way water moves through the membranes inside the vascular system that pumps water through the plant (in a nutshell). I wondered why I never saw sugar as an ingredient in fertilizer." I knocked over a cup of mcdonald's corn syrup, I mean, sweet tea onto a potted chrysanthemum. Half of it died, but I don't know if that contains sugar or not, but I can say that it doesn't contain tea, Lol. All joking aside, I don't see how watering with sugar is going to help (or hurt) a plant, unless it is done in excess. That still isn't as crazy as the suggestion I received to pour food coloring on a clematis (or, if you want to get even more absurd, flowering dogwood) to achieve a different flower color. What you should hopefully take away from this, is that if something sounds absurd, it most likely is. Although, if I catch someone pouring sugar on their trees, I'll make sure to take a photo and meme it, then proceed to post it here ;). Good luck with your beech trees. You may want to consider a shade garden under them (hostas, forsythia, ninebark, etc.) to plant under some of your trees. There's nothing like a pop of color added by variegated, purple-leaved, and golden-leaved plants all mixed together into one landscape.

I have had issues with this plant for years. I have two of them; both have been moved more than once. The problem that I have is that if I plant them in full sun, I get exactly what you have (no matter how long the plant has been in the ground). If I plant them in shade, they turn green. Finding the exact right spot with the exact amount of hours of shade vs sun or dappled shade, is not easy. They are both looking decent finally; one gets only a few hours of morning sun, the other gets dappled shade for most of the day. Both are protected from hot afternoon sun. You have much moister air than I do, which I think is probably a plus, but I bought both of mine in 2006 and it's only in the last few. years (and third or fourth try for the correct location) that they have looked good. This plant's actual botanical name is 'Ancot'. Golden Spirit is the name that it is marketed under, just so you know if you see reference to 'Ancot', it is the same plant. I think that your problem is sunburn. I feel your pain.