New Zealand Cabbage Palm

The huge tree -like plant in the greenhouse was too tall for the two story ceiling so it bent over and crawled above the bars that other plants hung from and spread it's enormous sword-like leaves over everything in its path. I do not know where I got it originally and do not know what it is, other than way too big now for the greenhouse. So I researched online and *think* it is a New Zealand Cabbage Palm, Cordyline australis. Wikipedia says: Cordyline australis grows up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall with a stout trunk 1.5 to 2 m (4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 7 in) in diameter. That is way too tall for our greenhouse. So...

We maneuvered it outside and into the bucket of the tractor with me standing in the bucket holding on to it. Of course, it broke off, so we then had two pieces to transport to the arboretum's Australia section, soon to be the Australia/New Zealand section. By the time we got the first piece in the ground, there were four pieces to plant. So we now have a grove of Cabbage Palms, all root-toned and hopefully eager to sprout roots. 

Here are the photos of our New Zealand Cabbage Palm grove... well, first the tree inside the greenhouse before the transfer...

It started up from the pot with a bare stem, looking innocent enough...

Then made leaves as it climbed ever higher with  side branches along the way...

Until it went over the bar on the ceiling that other plants hang from... crushing everything in its path...

...and was carried off in the tractor bucket in pieces after the soft stem (trunk?) broke when we moved it...

Maybe you can see the curved piece in front of the tractor below and the well-leafed piece to the left of the tractor. 

Johnny, of course, did most of the digging and planting. Below he is planting the broken top. Every piece was root-toned and planted. The tall trees in the background are Eucalyptus. They are very happy here. I hope the cabbage palm pieces (if that's what it is) will be happy, too. They are said to live along the west coast from California northward into Canada.

I'll get photos soon of the liberated plants in the greenhouse. I think they are relieved and happy.