Specimen selection
Choose palms for character, proportion, health, and how their mature form will read against the home—not from a generic size list.
Private residences · Palm Beach County
A residence remembered for the way it lives with palms.
Mature palms selected, composed, delivered, and established around the architecture, the views, and the life of the property.
Explore the approachResidential composition
Designed for the whole property.
A specimen palm is never simply an object placed in a plan. It changes proportion, privacy, shade, approach, and the experience of moving through a landscape.
Groundworks coordinates the full palm story—from field selection and placement studies through access planning, installation, and establishment care—so each decision belongs to the residence around it.
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A complete residential approach
Every decision supports the finished view.
The best result feels inevitable. Reaching it requires horticultural judgment, spatial restraint, and exact coordination long before a palm arrives at the property.
Placement & scale
Consider sightlines, canopy spread, setbacks, reflected light, circulation, and the experience from both inside and outside the residence.
Arrival through establishment
Coordinate access, crane work, installation, finish conditions, and the early care that protects the design after the equipment leaves.
Invisible coordination
The calmest landscapes require the most disciplined work.
Large palms ask more of a property than the finished photograph reveals: route studies, staging, equipment access, protection of architecture and paving, precise setting, and clear communication among every team on site.
Explore installationOne considered sequence, from intent to establishment.
Groundworks can enter at the earliest planning conversation or solve the final execution. The process remains anchored to the property’s design intent.
Listen
Understand the architecture, priorities, views, schedule, access, and level of presence the palms should create.
Compose
Match species, specimen character, scale, and placement to the property rather than treating palms as interchangeable.
Coordinate
Resolve sourcing, logistics, crane planning, site protection, installation conditions, and communication across the project team.
Establish
Support the critical period after installation so the palms and the surrounding landscape mature as intended.
Begin with the property
Let the palms belong to the architecture.
Share the residence, the landscape intent, and what the finished experience needs to become. Groundworks will help shape the palm plan around it.
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