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Small Palms as Ground Cover

Kim

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Kim Grand Master

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Eleven little palms went into the garden along a shady path recently. These are Dypsis pachyramea. Bought sometime in 2014, and difficult at first because they were so tiny, in 2-inch pots, prone to drying out, and intolerant of heavy soil or sun. These are the survivors.

D. pachyramea will remain short, maybe 2-3 ft. in height, and will clump, sending out thin stems that can root themselves into the soil if the opportunity arises. My hope is in a few years this will be a narrow field of D. pachyramea along the path.

As seen through the Bentinckia condapanna

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Beginning at the D. lastelliana

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Continuing past the Carpoxylon macrospermum and Areca macrocalyx...DSC_1126.thumb.jpg.88fe1994edcd5d8e58ba4

 

...and looking back toward those below the D. lastelliana againDSC_1128.thumb.jpg.21b8c25dccd29693d1395

the close-up... (for some reason the detail is fuzzed out on my photo -- perfectly clear in the original)

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And speaking of small things in the garden, granddaughter Holly made her first visit to the Moku garden for her mother's birthday. Here enjoying breakfast in the tea house.

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Palm Tree Jim Grand Master

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Kim,

I hope you get that D. pachyramea  to spread for you!

They are neat palms and do not see them very often.

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Hilo Jason Grand Master

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Great photos Kim.  My family and I just moved to Hilo so hopefully I can come see your garden in person sometime soon. I know it will be a source of inspiration for my new place! 

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Lovely pictures Kim!

The little palms, are cute, too!

Other palms can be ground cover as well, as I'm sure you already know.

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