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Ken Adcock has passed away


Tyrone

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On Sat 12th of October 2013, Ken Adcock, one of the founding members of the Palm and Cycad Society of Western Australia passed away.

Ken worked for a long time in the WA Agricultural department and his love of palms was shared by his close friend and work colleague Peter Skinner. Together they decided to start PACSOWA back in 80's.

I always found Ken a very helpful and knowledgable individual who was very supportive of those interested in gardens, but especially palms and cycads. His passing comes as a huge shock and he will be greatly missed. The WA tropical plant growing scene will be much poorer due to his absence.

Goodbye Ken.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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Sad news,

I didn't know Ken of course since I am new in Palm community and living in Europe, but I share the sadness of all his friends.

sincères condoléances.

Kindest regards

Philippe

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Just returned from Ken's funeral. About 300 were there to pay their respects. Ken was one of those remarkable characters that had an infectious enthusiasm for anything to do with nature and life. His early years were spent on his parents Carnarvon banana plantation. As already mentioned he was one of the cofounders of the WA Palm & Cycad Society, he ran an orchid nursery, ran a palm and cycad nursery, grew ferns and was a member of the WA Fern society, headed up horticultural research projects at UWA, he was responsible for introducing the "sweet lupin" into agriculture in Australia, and was a wealth of knowledge on virtually anything alive. In his later years he started breeding difficult to grow and breed poultry, and just last month one first prize at the Perth Royal Show for some of his poultry. He was so busy growing his plants, incubating his little chicks inside his house, keeping his tropical fish and running nurseries, that he never had time for a wife. He was a generous man, but a man where you knew exactly what he thought of you. He called a spade a spade.

It's been said that you can tell the greatness of a person by what they leave behind to grow. In Ken's case, it was said that if it would germinate or hatch from an egg, Ken would grow it. Ken could grow palms and cycads like no one else. At the annual palm show and sale his plants were top notch A grade plants. I have a few of his plants in my garden and collection now, and there are many many more people in WA like me who would have plants that have been germinated or grown by Ken in there garden.

He will be missed greatly.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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