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A decade later, now a professional camera operator, he found himself in a sunny field in Greenford, filming close up shots of Sir David releasing harvest mice on to a grass frond.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

We gather to prepare ourselves to bid a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

This means each frond is a major investment of resources that the plant repurposes after the leaf dies.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

I didn’t see it, but somebody told me Jim Cantore did get hit with a palm frond during part of his coverage.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2022

Away from the house, near Doña Ana’s, the latrine with palm frond walls under a zinc roof was hidden from the road by hibiscus bushes and an avocado tree.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

In February there is not much to see yet, just thin fronds that will become metre-long blades by spring.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

In 1987, an elderly woman in Fort Lee, N.J., naps beside a small Christmas tree; expertly framed, her torso is blanketed by the skeleton fronds of a nearby potted palm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

So I offered to fetch fresh lavender to strew in Gertrude’s bedchamber, and that night I knelt again on the ground, gathering the silvery, purple-tipped fronds of lavender into my arms.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein