Canary Island date palms are often pruned and trimmed to remove the lower, older leaves.

The Canary Island date palm is susceptible to Fusarium wilt, a fungal disease commonly transmitted through contaminated seed, soil, and pruning tools.

The weevil larvae burrow into the crown then feast on the sugar-rich apical bud, which provides a path for bacterial or fungal pests.

[12][13] The Canary Island date palm appears in many notable examples of landscaping, particularly in the American state of California.

According to legend, it was first planted in what is now San Diego in 1769, by Spanish missionary Junípero Serra, a founder of the California mission system.

[17] Oracle Park in San Francisco, the stadium of the Major League Baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, is another notable example of the Canary Island date palm in Californian landscaping, containing a host of the species at the stadium's entrance and beyond left field.

In Bermuda and the United States (Florida and California), it is considered naturalised (living wild in a region where it is not indigenous).

It has also spread in some areas of peninsular Spain, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand.