Drone video featuring the natural landscapes and palm trees typical of the Llanos Orientales region of Colombia. Video filmed in Hacienda Sabaneta, Tame, Arauca. Palm trees featured in this video: Palma Moriche (Mauritia flexuosa) Palma Real (Attalea butyracea) Palma Corozo (Acrocomia aculeata) Asaí de la Selva (Euterpe precatoria) Many thanks to Alirio and Nohora Valencia, owners of the ranch.

Pseudophoenix vinifera habitat in Azua, Dominican Republic. The Pseudophoenix vinifera grows in 4 locations on the island of Hispaniola. In the Dominican Republic it grows in the hills outside the town of Azua and it also grows near Jimani. In Haiti it survives between Poteau and Passe Reine (Dep. de l’Artibonite) and near Source Matelas (Dep. de l’Ouest). The drone video above is the population just outside Azua. Special thanks to Leonel Mera for making this trip possible.

Drone video of Coccothrinax boschiana in habitat, Dominican Republic Coccothrinax boschiana, commonly known as the Barrera Silver Palm. The only place in the world where the Coccothrinax boschiana palm grows is on this isolated limestone cliff on the Barahona Peninsula, Dominican Republic. Thanks to Leonel A. Mera for guiding us to this beautiful place.

Taking a break from palms and going back to my roots. The River Stour, Dedham Vale, whose beauty was captured by the great 19th Century painter John Constable, and which marks the boundary between Essex and Suffolk, was the place where I spent the majority of my childhood. Music: Oak and Ash and Thorn by the Unthanks