Where would the school be, Rpkperth? Someplace with mild winters, since you are looking for palms, but that still covers a lot of climatic territory.

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And it doesn't have to be exact, a city and a province or state would do.

Rpkperth?

Its in Australia

Weeelll...I figured that was likely, Perth to be specific, but I didn't want to assume. If that's true, Rpkperth, these people might be good ones to talk to:
https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park/area/wa-botanic-garden
If it was interior northern West Australia, or the deep outback, I might have been able to help you more myself, since a lot of plants from there do splendidly in the American southwest, where I live.