Two more palms in the ground

[Foggy Paul]

We took advantage of some actual sunshine last weekend to get two wonderful palms into the ground. One is a healthy R. sapida 'Chatham Island' (our 2nd of this cultivar) along the entry path to our back yard. This was gifted to us by none other than @Darold Petty and we couldn't be more grateful. You can also see the little Cyathea medullaris alongside, which we hope won't stay little for long. This area gets morning sun (when we have sun) in the summer months but is shaded otherwise.

The second was kind of a side benefit to our trip to Central CA a few weeks ago to purchase some C. costaricanas from @Perito aka Perry Glenn. Before the trip I mentioned to him that we had a Cycas revoluta in a prominent location that wasn't doing well at all, and we wanted to replace it with something more ornamental. Perry suggested a 15g double Howea belmoreana which he had for a very fair price. We stuffed that and four costaricanas into our Escape, and yesterday we stuffed the Howea into its new location.

It feels so good to fill in the empy spots in the garden! The costaricanas will go behind the bench, between the Trachycarpus and the Chamaerops to the left, but are still acclimating in dappled shade for another month or so. Eventually we will plant out our 1g Ceroxylon parvifrons (currently with four small leaves) and a group of trunking Chamaedorea radicalis which we are raising from seedlings (also a gift of the ever generous Darold). Those will all have to wait...