Exotic Chilean visitor settling in well
The Chilean Wine Palm (Jubea chilensis), over 10 metres in high and weighing 10 tonnes, has come all the way from a South American nursery and stands out from an elevated site in Kells Gardens.
Believed to be the country’s largest ever imported palm tree, it was shipped here in a climate-controlled container and replanted at its new home on the Ring of Kerry with the help of a crane and forklift.
