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Mark Daish Botanical Garden


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G'day all one of our stops while up north was to Mark Daishs place,I just wanna give a big shout out to Mark for making the time to show Kennybenjamin and myself around his magnificent garden,Mark was very generous with his time to walk us around his garden. Like the thread says it really is a botanical garden. Hope you enjoy the tour.

This was home for 3 nights

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no shortage of palms where we were staying

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afew nice cabadae

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Just short of arriving at Babinda was this garden on the side of the road, had to snap afew pics

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and then like a beacon we had found the promised land

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Once Ben and myself met Mark I rushed to the car to grab the camera, so here it go's ....Enjoy

Dypsis sambiranensis

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Ben and Mark with a very nice catechu close by

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Sommeria elegans

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If there any incorrect id's or names here I am happy to take the blame for that! Eg the sommeria appears not to be elegans at all, apologies in advance for any others that are a bit off!

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This next palm I said to Ben reminded me of an airbus A380 it was massive

corypha umbraculifera

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and looking back up at it, the photos honestly don't do it justice

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another corypha sp ?

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Here's yours truly with one very big marojejya darianii

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Couldn't help myself I love this palm, Mark sure has some nice ones around his property

Areca macrocalyx

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here's a few more

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You don't see to many of these pinangas

Pinanga punicea

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Apologies for posting 3 off, but such an awsom looking palm

cyrtostachys "Apple" possible hybrid, what ever it is its a stunner

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no introductions for this baby

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Licuala cordata split leaf form

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love my arecas

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very nice looking kerriodoxa elegans

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Chelyocarpus chuco

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Great tour fellas and Marks palm collection looks fantastic !

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Old Beach ,Hobart
Tasmania ,Australia. 42 " south
Cool Maritime climate

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This is what you call a cyclone affected hydriastele

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Calyptrogyne (background) Licuala sp (foreground)

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No idea but what a beauty

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Pinanga maculata

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And if you where wondering how Mark waters his garden when there's no rain

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Cyrtostachys elegans

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nice looking satakentia

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beautiful looking Pele

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apologies for the pic, pretty hard when your in jungle a couple of carpoxylon

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clino sp & heterospathe barfodii

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I couldn't wipe the grin of Bens face with this one, anyone that knows Ben, he's Mr Dypsis, right in his element here...

a nice 30 year old dypsis prestoniana

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and another one, cant get enough of this palm

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This ones for you Philippe a nice looking 7 year old loxococcus

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Dypsis leucomalla

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Dypsis oropedionis

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Mark did tell us of this one but can't remember

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Those big old dypsis were incredible ( as were most of these palms!) I think the looks on my face were more of disbelief at what I was seeing as opposed to a grin... There were plenty of smiles on my face throughout this garden tour though!!!!

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No idea on this one

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varigated dypsis

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Mark has another Lemur,I couldn't help but get a pic with ,

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beccariophoenix madagascariensis

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dypsis ambositrae

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Dypsis mealy bug palm

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another landscape pic

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Great photos, thanks for sharing......been many years since I was there last. Will have to make a point of visiting in the next few months :)

Andrew,
Airlie Beach, Whitsundays

Tropical Queensland

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what a great sight

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and too end the tour

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Well thats pretty much the end of the tour, like I said at the top of the thread a real special thanks to Mark for sparing a good 3hrs out of his day to show us around his garden, I certainly won't forget this in a hurry, it's been a real privilege to look around Marks place,many thanks Mark and hope to cya again soon....

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A real pleasure Andrew, Ben did warn me how good Mark's place would be, it certainly didn't disappoint thats for sure, there's a few more places we visited that I'm sure most people will be blown away by, will be posting soon

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Thanks Paul for taking 5 hours out of your day to share these pics... I hope they are appreciated by the masses on PT? your pics and Marks garden / collection deserve high praise (particularly Marks property!) I have personally been to many great palm gardens including those in Hawaii and as an Aussie I am proud to say that this garden is in the same high echelon as those that get plenty of attention here on Pt!!

Huge thanks to Mark also from me for being a great host and a great guy, I loved talking palms with him! The palms pictured here are about half of his great collection and his permission to allow these photos on PT should be greatly appreciated by all of us, Mark is a typical unassuming Aussie and he wouldn't care if no one knew about his garden except him. In fact he might possibly prefer it that way, thanks Mark! Keep it up!!

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A real pleasure Andrew, Ben did warn me how good Marks place would be, it certainly didn't disappoint thats for sure, there's a few more places we visited that I'm sure most people will be blown away by, will be posting soon

Definitely one to tick off the bucket list

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Wow! There were too many highlights there for me to pick a favourate. Maybe the last lemur or the dypsis leucomalla. That was pretty special. Thanks for posting lads and putting in the effort.

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Wow thanks for sharing, dream garden and fantastic palms. I particularily like the Dypsis leucomalla how come that isn't as easily available as leptocheilos.

Now I know I could live in Australia after all, my entire family does now except a sister so time to make some plans for a trip up "north" is it? Where is this exactly in Queensland?

Cerdic

Non omnis moriar (Horace)

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Wow. Pretty special that garden. Highlights too numerous to mention. Thanks for posting. I'm a little lost for words...

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Thanks for posting Paul, very well captured. I hope your stocklist was sorted well Ben.

It's been such a long time since I was there with the ratpackers. That variegated Dypsis has certainly grown heaps as has the Marojejya.

Look forward to more threads from the excursion.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Wow thanks for sharing, dream garden and fantastic palms. I particularily like the Dypsis leucomalla how come that isn't as easily available as leptocheilos.

Now I know I could live in Australia after all, my entire family does now except a sister so time to make some plans for a trip up "north" is it? Where is this exactly in Queensland?

Cedric, there are many great gardens located around the Cairns area.... This is just one of them

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Wow! There were too many highlights there for me to pick a favourate. Maybe the last lemur or the dypsis leucomalla. That was pretty special. Thanks for posting lads and putting in the effort.

You should have seen Mark's old Lemurophoenix...Cyclone Larry took it out unfortunately...it was a monster!

Mark's place is always special...I wonder what it would look like if it hadn't taken two Cat5 direct hits in recent years!

Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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