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Two Great Gardens on Big Island from August 2010


daxin

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I took my parents and my son for a short visit to the Big Island in Hawaii this August. We stayed at Mr. Davis Dalbok's rental property, which was shown here before as the site for a previous Hawaiian Palm Society meeting. As soon as we unpacked, we went out to visit another garden that I really want to see.

Many of you have been to this friendly porch. It is Bo's garden and check out the number of guest umbrellas. One friendly reminder is that the mosquitos are very hungry, but they are also smart enough to know that it is Bo who brought them these tasty visitors so they left him alone :)

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Can you believe this is a serious drought year for Hilo area?

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Bo's weed

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One of the many Dypsis

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Should I call them wine bottle palms? I like them more when they are half as tall.

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Fragrant Hill Design

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Mountain View, California

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Dypsis decipiens grove. There are many more to the right.

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Love those beautiful patterns on Metroxylon petioles

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I failed my Tahinia test

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But I know these are Alcantarea 'Merlot' and it is available in my area. :drool:

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As a garden designer, I can tell you that Bo is a very successful man with excellant taste to have such a unique wall and seat. As a budding palm fanatic, I am feeling the crush for the group of Orange Crushes behind.

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The regal Lodoicea with two more siblings nearby.

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My parents and I spent about an hour to see maybe 40% of Bo's garden. All this time my son was inside Bo's house playing his Nintendo DS. I guess I can only lead this little pony this far. Thank you Bo and Karolyn for your hospitality and babysitting help!

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Now here is the private botanical garden we stayed in. Mr. Davis Dalbok owns a design/landscaping company in San Francisco called Living Green. His property on the Big Island is filled with artefacts from Tropical Asia. It is available for rent and here is the link.

Main patio

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Metroxylon amicarum fruit. The on-site manager also showed me some of the really tiny fire ants crawling under the fruit. These ants are notorious for their painful bites.

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A weird orchid (Bulbophyllum sp.?) with two very different types of flowers.

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Guest huts on higher slopes. The main house we stayed is much bigger with three bedrooms.

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These huts do have the ocean view and are very close to the grove of fruiting Lychee trees.

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On-site lava outcrop.

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This garden is very open (hard work for sure) with lots of small islands of exotic plants.

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Fragrant Hill Design

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Mountain View, California

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More plant islands

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Cytostachys renda and I saw some small ones at a Home Depot store on Oahu, not fair!

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Artefact from Indonesia?

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Close-up of flowering tree. Tabebuia maybe?

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Very red emerging leaf on an Anthurium.

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Here are a few local shots. First is Poke from Malama Market in Pahoa. They give samples like ice cream shops. Yummy!

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Ahalanui pool is a very cool, or shall I say, very warm volcanically heated ocean water pool. There are small tropical fish darting around and the water temperature is in the low 90s(32C). We did not want to leave.

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Finally a view from the Volcano National Park. It is full of attractions even with part of the rim road closed near the vent on the left. I wish I could bring back some of the Sadleria tree ferns.

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Fragrant Hill Design

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not Tabebuia... it is Cassia hybrid (sometimes it is called 'rainbow showers).

Regards, Ari :)

Ari & Scott

Darwin, NT, Australia

-12°32'53" 131°10'20"

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great pix so far! what a wonderful trip :)

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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Wow, what a lovely place ya get to rent, and the :drool: gardens

look great, Esp Bo's there's lots of goodies by the looks of

things, what a cool thread. Thx...

Regards Mike :)

M.H.Edwards

"Living in the Tropic's

And loving it".............. smilie.gif

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nice :) thanks for posting...and...keep them coming if you please...

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Sounds like you had a good time, there are so many incredible gardens here in east Hawaii it's mind boggling. As far as garden viewing and accommodation, you chose well.

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Thanks for all the comments. The whole Puna area has this rustic charm, the roads are narrow and the towns are small, but it is filled with natural wonders.

Here are a few more photos from this trip:

Lush tree ferns (Cibotium glaucum) at Thurston Lava Tube in Volcano National Park. The plant diversity seems low when compared to the forests of Amazon or SE Asia, but it is visually more enjoyable.

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Lava Tree State Monument. To me the tall(~10') cigarlike lava molds were not as interesting as these majestic Albizia saman trees (Monkeypod) that seem like a group of Treebeards.

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We also went to see the Hawaiian Botanical Garden, which covers a lush canyon down to the sea.

Dypsis

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Leaf close-up

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Carpoxylon

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Fragrant Hill Design

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More from Hawaiian Botanical Garden

Pritchardia

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Small cove at the bottom of the garden

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An aroid (Philodendron?) starts to put out mature leaves

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The climbing vine looks like Scindapsus pictus Argyreus. It is commonly available as houseplants, but they never tell you that it is one of those beautiful Shingle Plants in the true tropics.

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Huge Anthurium leaves

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Costus stenophyllus

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These next few photos are from Kalapana, where new land is created everyday.

The storm soaked us, but not before I got this photo

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Small black sand beach. The old one was said to be much bigger and better, but this one will probably get there in a few hundred years.

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Locals are planting coconuts to re-decorate their beach

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Fragrant Hill Design

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Mountain View, California

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Daxin,

Glad to hear you and your parents and son had a great time here on the Big Island and I enjoyed meeting you! And you certainly picked the perfect place to stay! :)

Bo-Göran

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Great photographic eye Daxin. Thanks for all the photo posts and palm IDs.

And Bo, only being on the forum for a short time so far, I've picked up the references to your first garden in some posts and am following the work on your new lot but I never saw photos from this location before now. I'm really excited to think what might be in store for the new lot. You really have created Paradise over there. Honestly people who only vacation on the west side of the Big Island are missing out on so much.

Zone 9b (formerly listed as Zone 9a); Sunset 14

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