How placement of a Bismarckia palm camouflages its splendour

[newton]

Planted by my mali last year. It has grown but the understory planting will have to go. As you can see it is too well camouflaged and hides its beauty. I think it needs a reddish colour underplanting with differant shape and texture of leaf.

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[Shazia Khurram]

It's healthy and eye catching but you're right. The flowers underneath makes it looks out of place. How about a little gravel with some hardy plants. Something like this



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[Shazia Khurram]

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[isaeed]

shazia .I don't see any flowers below the Bismarck palm.?
Newton hold your horses just trim the surrounding plants the palm will soon gain in height.you can then consider adding colour
Irfan Saeed

[newton]

I think perhaps Shazia meant the foliage of the variegated plant underneath. I cant remember its proper name right now but was described as Zebra grass. It is definately the wrong leaf shape and ccolour for accompanying that palm

[Shazia Khurram]

[quote="isaeed"]shazia .I don't see any flowers below the Bismarck palm.?

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[Muhammad Arif Khan]

This palm is wrongly located. Looked after properly it can grow rather big and very fast.
Arif

[newton]

You are correct sir both of them are wrongly located.

[isaeed]

blimey!! why is the palm wrongly located? will it obstruct the view from the deck?please educate me.
Irfan Saeed

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

blimey!! why is the palm wrongly located? will it obstruct the view from the deck?please educate me.
Irfan Saeed

This Bismarkia Grew to this size in two years in spite of the fact that I am starving it to slow down its growth. now look at the Newtons palms in relation to the building.



Arif