Looks like there making a great comeback!
Well done!

They grow like weeds so it won't take long to get them full
and pretty . Word to the wise.. California's had some nasty cold snaps and kings realy hate them . So if one comes your way i would cover them. Good Luck !

Although it doesnt look like they are, they are planted in a protected location. I've had cannas bloom year round in this spot, and to the right, out of the range of the pic, i have a mango seedling, tropical guavas and corn plant, which would be toast if they were out in the open. I know a person who grows kings in Modesto (about 40 miles north of me) has the same average winter and summer temperatures and he lost five of his seven kings (already hitting 10 feet tall), but they were all out in the open. So i guess i have a better chance, since they are somewhat protected and growing on the border of a thermal belt we have here in Central Cal.

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They look great but aren't they a little close together. They will eventually become very large palms.

andy, i thought about that too. But they are often planted in groups of three or four so close together that the bases of the palms seem to fuse together. This usually makes each of the palms lean away from each other. So if they are too close here, they might just lean away from each other as well. Who knows.

Centralcali
Home depot had some beautiful kings and they just left them out in the weather and let them die. Somebody probaly would have bought them after they got cold damaged if they would have lowered the price on them but they never did. that realy ticks me off I mean Why not let somebody have them at a discount than let them die from the cold ?

That too bad topher. Lowes and Home Depot usually have a section where they pile all of their dying plants at discount prices. Usually the damage is from heat, but this last winter we had a freak freeze and they had lots of cold damaged plants. I got a kentia palm for $9 (only one survived of the three in the pot), A 15 gallon giant BOP for $10, several 5 gallon bouganvillea and duranta for $5. One thing that got me thinking on how ill-informed the 'gardeners' at these stores are is that decidious trees (aka honey locust, mulberries, pears, wisteria, maples..etc) which naturally lose their leaves in fall, where marked as cold-damaged and huge 15 gallon trees where going for $10! These trees probably didnt even feel the cold at 20 degrees!

Wow you guys are lucky ! Our home depot never marks anything down no matter how dead or dying it looks !

Nice looking kings. I would probably have planted them all together in a cluster further away from the patio -- like 4 feet, if you have the space. Then plant a ring of low shrubs around them, like Indian Hawthorn or similar.