Palm comapnion plants 3

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Inspred by the new post on palm landscapes this post is on the "Full sun" part of our house where I plan to feature palms.

It pretty pathetic now.  I tool out most of teh old plants  (small heliconias, tropical bulbs and lillied etc...) and just left the plams that were there.  My basic idea is to cover the area with grasses and low growing stuff so that when the palms grow, one can have an unobstructed view of the palm tree.  basically a place where you can feature your speciman plants.

I am new to palms and most of the palms I like are just new introductions to  our country so its either there are no large specimens available or I simply cant afford a larger plant.

I think that this is going to be a very very very long wait before I can have a decent looking palm area.

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The royal palms. Alcatarea imperialis and white bird of paradise and lipstick palm dont count becuase they were there from the start.  I dont know if you can see them but I planted  some Coocthrinax Miraguam, copernicia macroglossa (petticoat palm) and a chinese winmill palm somewhere there.  But  most of these are very slow growing and I had to start really small ---this will be a disproprtionately ugly palm garden for several year until the feature palms get to a decent size.

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Chinese windmill palm with some agaves

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Cuban petticoat in front,  There are 3 coccothrinax miraguamas there but they are still small so tey are hard to see.  Dotted with Mondograss that are suppose to spread out.  there is also a vairegated creeping bamboo that isalso suppose to spread out.

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Medeterranian fan palm - chaemerops humilis (?)  surrounded by dots of mondo grass.

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Tiny blue leaf nannorrops (?)  cant really remember the name but its supposed to be low growing and clumping

Another problem is that I am just guessing the eventual sizes of these plants becuase I have never seen a full grown specimen of any of these for myself.