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Cairns 2016


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G'day all, well its been 12 months since our last outing to Cairns, a lot of planning went into this trip to help a very good mate plant out his new house, Ben ( kennybenjamin ) and Grant from palms for Brisbane made the trip up to supervise and get the plants in, and along the way you will see a few very nice gardens, and some very nice palms, so here we go hope you enjoy ...
 

Brisbane Airport 6am, of all the days to get fog,, we sat on the plane for 2hrs before flying out 

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2hrs behind schedule we arrive in Cairns 

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You know your in Cairns when you see lipstick palms at the airport 

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First stop our mate Michaels ( miccles ) house, Big Foxy lady being positioned into place. 

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109 palms got planted over a 24 hour period

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The following morning we went down to the local beach for a coffee

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A quick stop to Jan Smiths place before finishing off Michael's place 

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And we've arrived at Jan's 

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chambeyronia lepidota

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Roger for scale 

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Jan has a very impressive list of newcal palms, K magnifica 

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B Gracillis ( stiff leaf )

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verschaffeltia splendida

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D carlsmithii

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D Presty 

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One of my favourites, Roger with Areca Alba

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Piggy 

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Roger with a P macca 

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dypsis mirabilis

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2 minutes after leaving Jans ... Mt Lewis, home of A Purpurea

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Back to Cairns 

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The next morning we went to pick up our ride for the drive down the coast, but before we got it, we decided to do a quick pit stop, So Centenary lakes id basically the backside of flecker botanical gardens 

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Great shots Comic. You know that your spoilt when Lipstick palms are common like Golden Cane Palms. Looks like fun planting up Miccles Garden. Impressive Foxy Lady. I know several people that would love to get a small one of those let alone an epic individual like that. Do I see a Pelagodoxa amongst those palms to go in at Miccles?

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Great pics so far :greenthumb: look fwd to the rest in the morning, glad youve finally worked out your new camera :)  Pete

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Well we got our ride for the next 6 days down south,  we got quite a few looks from the police and the general public, but what a ride, very comfortable and had plenty of room for the occasional palm that we picked up along the way, we saved $600 getting this to your normal run of the mill rental wagon IMG_7300.JPG.8cdf5c360c86b57e64e600b7aeee

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OK off to another local nursery to have a look

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Roger for scale again, you'll see a lot of Roger along the way 

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Wicked Camper for palms now there's an idea #north queensland palm pilgrimage 2017. What is better than a well grown Carpoxylon-a whole avenue of them. 

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Loving the photos, keep it up........... Couldn't believe it when I saw that you rolled into town with the 'Bangbus' :D

 

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Andrew,
Airlie Beach, Whitsundays

Tropical Queensland

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Keep up the good work Paul...Love those roundabout Bizzies, and the Carpoxylons are superb!

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

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Well mission completed at Michael's, off to Flecker Botanical Gardens for a look 

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This is labelled as Pinanga black stem

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Pinanga Insignis 

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Pinanga caesia 

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Roger for scale with Joey 

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Euterpe sp

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Metroxylon sp

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salacca magnifica

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H beguinii

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The boys inside the new hot house

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Just spectacular! What a palm paradise and it looked like perfect weather for palm planting.

El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

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Cairns must be one of the most beautiful places on earth - where the rainforest meets the sea. I'm jealous Michael - living every (former) Melbourne palm nuts dream!

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Tim Brisbane

Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

Rarely Frost

2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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"Very much looking fwd to seeing this new addition to the Botanic Gardens, Arden and Chris would have donated "plenty" in there, hows the split leaf Cordata's in the background. :wub: "Great" thread Paul. :greenthumb: look fwd to the rest, I better get back outside, this has given me more kick than my triple shot coffee :)   Pete

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Haha glad your enjoying Pete, there's another 6 more days of our trip to post, I'll get onto it after lunch :)

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A few more from Flecker before moving on to Bill Beatties place

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love this palm drymophloeus beguinii

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Big dwarf catechu

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Orange crown euterpe, hahaha Roger being very jovial :D

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Areca var alba

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Im a big fan of this Euterpe precatoria

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Harry with a very nice corypha 

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Group pic with a tahina

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Next stop Bill Beatties

Dypsis miribalis type 

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Bills manangerensis has exploded in the last 12 months 

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Ben for scale

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dypsis acuminum

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D remotifolia

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D nauseosa

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Orange crush

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D procera

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D robusta

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D leucomalla

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D dark mealy bug 

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Socal nauseosa

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P maculata

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Dypsis prestoniana

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 Dypsis bejouf 

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Bill had so many more sweet palms but was very difficult getting good pics under the canopy. Thanks for having us around Bill

 

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Very impressed with bills palms. Lucky buggers getting to go to such beautiful gardens.

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Well after Bills it was time to head on over to Bens place ( bencassa ) for a few beers and look around his place, Ben was very gracious having us boys over for the night. 

Ben has just moved into a new place, so I didn't take many pics, but going of what hes planted its gonna be one hell of a garden. 

This the view from Bens house 

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Fantastic mega thread you ole cobba! Looks like you guys had a great PRA and wow, incredible palms. 

That van was a killer, probably as much laughing on the inside as there was on the outside. Anything to save a few bucks. 

Thanks for taking the time to post all the pics and regards to all your palm buddies. 

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Well having spent 4 days in the Cairns area it was time to head down the coast, so the next morning we left Ben's and headed over to Mark daish's place

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Here's Mark re potting an orange crush that I had just bought and placed beside our car, suffice to say we moved the car and had forgotten it was near the passengers front wheel, it got crushed, it did have a happy ending 

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Mark would have  the largest Canaliculata's in cultivation, look fwd to the rest of yr thread Paul.  Pete :) 

 

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Well once we left Marks it was off to Harry's ( fanpalm ) place. Harry too is on acreage and as you'll see he has some nice stuff planted 

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Harry was great, once we toured the yard, Harry put on a Bbq and a few beers, on his deck, thanks again Harry 

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Gentlemen , this thread is a treasure!

It's like reading a high quality travel journal - absolutely amazing pictures! 

I have to read/check the photos a couple of times to take it all in,

thank you very much!

best regards

 

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This is really too much and that is just the photos you have posted. No doubt there was heaps of cool mind-blowing stuff you didn't take pics of. Gardens to be really proud of Nth Queenslanders. Love that Geonoma epetiolata and pic really captures its beauty. One of my very favourites.

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