the official "mattyb & paul in south florida" thread

[paulgila]

hang yer heads in shame,green bizzies.

stupid tourists!!!

oh yeah.

nevermind!

matt talking schmack,seconds before they jumped him.

"hey randy,get outta ma shot!"

just kidding.

[paulgila]

then they lived happily ever-after.

house near the fairchild being "mc-mansion-ized."

family portrait of everyone all clean & dressed up to go eat some raw fish.

i think christian even used soap.

[paulgila]

this is what i call the "set-up shot."

ken johnson looking dapper. i didnt have to twist his arm much for beer & sake.

the appetizers were delicious & seemed very "japanese."

who woulda thunk it?

matt was having a hard time since he left his dentures back at the ranch.

[epicure3]

Great pics. What is that palm with the reddish crownshaft and spines (post 159). Also, was that Mangosteen outdoors or inside their pavilion?

[paulgila]

one of my favorite dishes of the evening was this octopus & conch.

i think the red stuff is blood.

you hafta sit close to everyone when the resto is no bigger than a coat closet.

natto.matt claims it ruined his GI tract.

FM jeff has an awesome garden which we toured the next day as the up-coming photos

shall prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.

here he thinks about how he can get away from us.

[paulgila]

i wandered into what was likely a very small art gallery in the hallway that led to the mens room.

uni with quail egg & vegetable tempura.it included tempura-ed corn on the cob,which was just plain weird.

back at the ken johnson estate,ken johnson demonstrates how to open a coconut with no tools

or implements of any kind.

brute strength,thats how!

[MattyB]

It was amazing! I tried to rip off the fibers even after Ken had started it and there's no way I could even get it to budge.

[paulgila]

the coconut realizes it has lost.

sake makes you do strange things.

this is not one of them,however.i woulda done this anyways.

[MattyB]

I've gotta jump in with some Sakura shots before we move on.

Ken started off with the milky saki. Looks like Horchata.

half a glass and Ken passed out.

Christian wondering what we're gonna make him eat later.

[MattyB]

Ohhhh, soooo goooodddd.

beer or saki, beer or saki, ahhhhh forget it, I'll drink both.

Paul does this even when he's not eating. It's just odd.

Ken demonstrated some of his finer love making techniques.

[MattyB]

Uni with quail egg. Maybe I got sour manila from the quail egg.

I was the designated driver but my camera was getting ripped.

bakak!

pay up

[MattyB]

For tax purposes. I had an audition for CSI Miami so I can write off the whole trip. I wish.

Click on this for a video of Christian mackin' on the uni

[paulgila]

i dont remember any of that.

some edits:

palm in 3rd pick of post 154 is thrinax parviflora ssp.parviflora.there may be some qoutes in that.

the palm in the 4th pick that randy is looking at is a gaussia sp.

epicure3 i think the palm u asked about is acanthaphoenix rubrum ssp.rubrum.

dont make me "edit" this "edit."

[tikitiki]

Acanthophoenix rubra. I had no idea how nice these were until I saw this one. now I have added it to the list. The Mangosteen was inside the rare fruit house. I also did not realize how much I cross my arms in Photos.

Great pics. What is that palm with the reddish crownshaft and spines (post 159). Also, was that Mangosteen outdoors or inside their pavilion?

[paulgila]

ha! beat ya by 1 minute,tom!

i thought the "arm-crossing" was a florida thing.

[MattyB]

Mount up cowboys! Time for a day rollin' through the hood with Ken Johnson! The multi-garden palmiest tour of the century. Or the year at least. Ok, maybe just for that day. We saw palms damnit!!!! Just look.

We stopped by a large Copernicia that Ken is in the process of root pruning for dig at some later date. This guys a pro.

Ken explains his proprietary methods to Paul. Shortly after this Paul was dead.

Paul's lifeless body strapped into the backseat awaiting disposal. It was so very Weekend at Bernies, but more like Week at Ken's.

[MattyB]

Pseudophoenix. I think Ken said it's a suspected sargentii x lediniana

Look at that color!

I guess they call this native forest "Hammock"

[MattyB]

Bizzie farm

random driving around video. Ken's truck has a corvette engine in it with turbo charger and dual custom exaust. It hauled butt and was loud!

[paulgila]

The doors are locked and Paul can't get out.

[tikitiki]

Damn you. Maybe it is a florida thang.

There has to be more bizzies in Florida than Madagascar.

ha! beat ya by 1 minute,tom!

i thought the "arm-crossing" was a florida thing.

[paulgila]

matt with kerriodoxa.

paul with corypha. pronounced "cor-eye-fa" in florida,btw.

[paulgila]

best picture i ever took.

of myself.

its about time someone took a nice close-up shot!

rustlin' some longans.

alot like lichees but not as sweet.

[MattyB]

Coccothrinax borhidiana looking like some sort of reciprocating death saw from the movie CUBE.

[MattyB]

dryness

[MattyB]

Paul trying to remember how to say SAAAAYBULLLLLL. Looks like S. causiarum to me.

Natives. Sabal palmetto with Seranoa underneath. We saw quite a bit of the Seranoa native stuff left as a ground cover, shrubery.

[paulgila]

oooh,i thought i saw a nice rhopalostylis in there!

nope,guess not!

[MattyB]

Native

Longans run

This guy was Ken's old teacher from gradeschool. He was the only guy with fruit on his Longan trees because he'd treated them with Potassium Chloride to get them to fruit. Didn't know you could do that.

This is not fruit, it came out of Paul's ear. I think it's some sort of brain matter. He didn't speak for the rest of the trip.

Look how stubby his index finger looks. That's how it really is in real life. Don't make a big deal about it. He's sensitive.

[paulgila]

"& you may find yourself living in a shot-gun shack."

nursery where the loading dock was carved out of the native stone.

back in the "city," heading towards jeffs place.

see if you can spot the tall howea in this pic!

interesting livistona we came across,christian ID'd it as something like "inermis."

[paulgila]

our merry band touring jeffs awesome garden.

i like the yellow leaf borders,it musta taken jeff a long time to draw those on with a sharpie.

pigafetta looking great!

jeff had a great selection of palms,alot of rare stuff!

[MattyB]

I took some pics before we got to Jeff's. I call this rock.

I guess they just throw Majesty Palms away in Florida.

Livistona inermis was a really great little palm.

[MattyB]

[MattyB]

Now we're on street 124 @ Jeff's place. Paul, watch out for that Pigafetta. You're gonna poke your eye out.

Dypsis St. Lucei. Jeff was one of the only guys growing Dypsis. Come on Florida, you're missing out.

[MattyB]

It had a great jungle feel.

Clinostigma samoense.

This is what you see right before you get punched out.

[MattyB]

I was smitten with this Pinanga. Thai mottled I think.

[MattyB]

Pinanaga, either caesia or speciosa, both of which Jeff had growing easily. Some people reported having trouble growing these but Jeff's garden defies logic.

[MattyB]

Paul counting the number of these he's killed.

Don't look at me, look at what you're taking a picture of! Photography 101 dewd, come on.

[MattyB]

Out front in the driveway circle, once again Seranoa native scrub has been preserved.

Dypsis red triangle I think.

[MattyB]

Another zone pusher. Pritchardia pacifica.

The white triangle. Dypsis cabadae x decaryi

A very large Eucalyptus deglupta

[MattyB]

Dypsis fine leaf looking very fine in the shade.

I think that's the tour at Jeff's. Great variety. Thanks Jeff.

P.S., sorry I blew up your bathroom. You've gotta get a fan in there. And repaint the walls. My funk stripped the paint right off.

[paulgila]

palm in post # 192 3rd pic i s d.st.lucei,"fyi."