Anyhow, first I started by planting the palm trees, I don't know what happened to the picture of me standing in the holes but if I find the pics I will post them. They were HUGE!!!
Here they are now that they are established.
Left, Washingtonia filifera (California fan palm), center, Butia capitata (Pindo palm), right another W. filifera.
Sabal palmetto and bananas to the right.
Filifera
Pindo with a pop-up banana tree. I decided to just let it grow where it is.
Other filifera.
Just a random picture of the oleander and old Trachycarpus fortunei (windmill palm).
Now I'm sure some of you are bored with palms by now, so moving onto the cactus
Here it is after I dug another even larger hole for the cactus garden, this one took a while.
I quickly ran into a problem as I didn't realize that the route for a pipe goes right through where I wanted the garden to be, so I dug the area without the pipe (Front side) deeper to make up for that and kept a slope where the pipe was. Then came the long task of mixing soil.
Once the soil was all mixed the plan was finally falling into place and some of my plants that have been waiting to go into the ground finally could. You could really tell that they were ready!
Root bound! (When I bought this plant 2 years ago it was in a 4 inch square pot without a large root system compared to this now. Not much top growth but lots of growth under the soil!)
Here comes the granite!
I ran out on the first day of a holiday weekend so I had to wait very impatiently for the weekend to be over so that the rock place would be open so I could finish.
DONE!
That's all for now, I will post some other pictures of it soon, probably in my outdoor topic. The garden is a bit sparse but will fill in once I start planting some of my other cacti into it.
