What first strikes me is the way there's a row of concrete or brick that would divide the flowerbed from the grass, but the grass doesn't respect the boundary and comes over it. This is the eternal struggle I have at keeping the stupid grass out of my flowerbeds. I don't know enough about palms to realize what is actually happening here. Is a single palm being split? Is it just a couple being transplanted? Or I guess these may not be palms, since you probably wouldn't plant one that close to a house. I'm not sure I want to know about the "quality lubricants."