Bits and Pieces by wine bottle

[Walter John]

Okay, I can't recall/find the ideas man or woman now but in another thread somebody started using a champagne bottle as perspective next to the palms and plants in photos as a variation of Dave's red shoes in the sunset style. I like the idea plus to make it even more interesting I've decided to use a bottle of tropical plum wine from the Bundaberg Tropical Fruit Winery. My wife and I have never been game to open it so I've found a use for it finally.

I would dearly love to see, and I'm sure we all would, others add to this thread their palmy bits and pieces using a bottle of their choice for size comparisons etc., name your own poison ladies and gents and snarkaholics one and all.

For openers, to the tune of "Best I ever had" by Vertical Horizon.

Dypsis pembana and child

Carpoxylon macrospermum and Pritchardia martii

Neoveitchia storckii

[DoomsDave]

COOL!

The only problem is we don't know exactly how big it, is, though it certainly gives a general idea of scale.

Hic!

[Walter John]

(Dave from So-Cal @ Apr. 09 2008,15:54)

QUOTE

COOL!

The only problem is we don't know exactly how big it, is, though it certainly gives a general idea of scale.

Hic!

Struth Dave, it's a standard bottle mate, 750 ml, you want me to drink it for you too ? burrrrrppp!!!

Areca concinna, and the trunk at back belongs to Archontophoenix cunninghamiana.

Base of Clinostigma sp. "hawaiian hybrid"

Gaussia maya

[Walter John]

I took a few more wine bottle pics today so I'll post the lot now and see if anybody else can get in the same groove.

Dypsis cabadae group - base camp, one of which is on the bulge.

Ptychosperma elegans group

Beccariophoenix stuck in the corner of my place seemingly forgotten. Coffee tree to the right.

[mike453]

Wal,

What's a ml? We use oz's to measure our hooch in the US.

                                Mike

[PalmGuyWC]

Good idea, but it's not always convenient to have a wine bottle on hand, especially in a botanical garden. I expect the officals would escort you out if you were walking around with a bottle in your hand.

Dick

[Walter John]

Normally I would say "I give up" (on reading the input here) but I won't, and I'll tell you why I won't......

because........

I've got some more photos   ...........

Okay okay, let's be fair to the guys on the other side for a second. One, they're not sure what a standard bottle of wine looks like, maybe, but hard to believe, but there you have it, Two, they don't do metric, fair enough, must remember to convert everything, okay okay I can handle that. Three, stop making them think you're in a botanical garden like an old wino, right, got it, anything else ? no. that's about it for now. righteeoh then, bring on some pics.

[Walter John]

Clinostigma savaiiense

Young bismarckia in the front yard, is getting somewhat larger.

[Walter John]

Areca vestiaria

Baby Marojejya,

insignis and in health I'll love her till I die.

[Walter John]

Young Kentiopsis oliviformis

Some of these pics could be great adds for "the tropical wine experience of a lifetime", and ah, you must like plums though.

Red Triangle at night, bit of a fright, red triangle in the day, makes the blues go away with a nice drop of wine, as they always say in the tropics, up ya bum with a bottle of plum.    

[Walter John]

You heard of rum stills ?

Well this is plum stilts...........

Don't drive......Don't do anything............

just drink

Hey boy, drop me off here...

Too busy lately ?, too busy to be tired ? too tired to be ...um........well don't worry bout dat four now mun, cum to de bangalow bar, where de air is breezy, and de wine is plum.........dares a cupla pink ladies dare to surf you mun

[redant]

Getting a real nice collection going there. The Neoveitchia storckii a recet addition?

Tropical plum wine ???

[MattyB]

Beautiful plants Wal!  Lookin' guuuuudddd!

[bgl]

There's no metric to non-metric conversion needed. 750 ml is a standard size wine bottle, and it's right there on the label - whether you're in the USA or elsewhere!!

Wal - thanks for coming up with the concept! :cool:

[Mark_NoVA]

(Wal @ Apr. 09 2008,07:59)

QUOTE

Okay okay, let's be fair to the guys on the other side for a second. One, they're not sure what a standard bottle of wine looks like, maybe, but hard to believe, but there you have it, Two, they don't do metric, fair enough, must remember to convert everything, okay okay I can handle that. Three, stop making them think you're in a botanical garden like an old wino, right, got it, anything else ? no. that's about it for now. righteeoh then, bring on some pics.

You're first guess is pretty close--we've got U.S. palm growers here rather than U.S. wine aficionados, because the standard size for a wine bottle here in the U.S. is.....

750 ml!     :laugh:

Makes wine bottles a good international measurement tool!

[palmmermaid]

Wal,

Great pictures!  Love the Neoveitchia.  I don't have one of those - yet!  Big palm sale this weekend.

I knew what a 750 ml wine bottle was - standard here in the US of A.  Since most every other country in the world uses the metric system - especially the scientific community - we should all have a working knowledge of it.  A meter is roughly a yard, etc.  So don't worry about the conversion.

I assumed the pictures were in your garden and not a botanic garden.  I am out of town (again!) but will try and get some pictures of my palms with a wine bottle - probably and empty one! - for scale.  Maybe even an Australian bottle!  I am partial to Shiraz.

Keep them coming!

[sonoranfans]

(Dave from So-Cal @ Apr. 09 2008,00:54)

QUOTE

COOL!

The only problem is we don't know exactly how big it, is, though it certainly gives a general idea of scale.

Hic!

Yeah we dont know how big that bottle is, but I'll bet it smells better!  Oh, and wonderful palms Wal, magnificent!  Now we need to figure out how to get a taste of that plum wine over the net!

[osideterry]

Love plums and love wine, but I'd pass on plum wine. I have a Chilean Carmenere I'll start using as gauge. Someone gave me 2 bottles, and the first one was a real stinker.

Palms looking great as usual. Love the red triangle and the accompanying pirate-like song.

[Kim]

Wal, I will admit some passing familiarity with standard wine bottle sizes, at least enough to know that's not a 'demi', nor a 'jeroboam'.  But whilst reading your poetry I had the suspicion the plum wine was not the only bottle around your house...

Never stop posting man, got to have my "Wal fix" every day...

[Walter John]

(Kim @ Apr. 10 2008,06:35)

QUOTE

Wal, I will admit some passing familiarity with standard wine bottle sizes, at least enough to know that's not a 'demi', nor a 'jeroboam'.  But whilst reading your poetry I had the suspicion the plum wine was not the only bottle around your house...

Never stop posting man, got to have my "Wal fix" every day...

Yeh well, what can I say ?

Ah come on Joey

you can always change your name

thanks a lot son just the same

[nomolos]

You been drinkin and postin Wal

[Walter John]

Three more bottle pics for the new forum.

Dypsis leptocheilos, Latania lontaroides and Adonidia merrillii.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Beautiful collection of palms, Wal.......

[paulgila]

you have some amazing looking plants,wal!

wondering why all the 1st pix are like they were displayed on the previous forum(& how you do that?) & the last ones are thumbnails?

i prefer the former...

Edited April 21, 2008 by pohonkelapa

[Walter John]

you have some amazing looking plants,wal!

wondering why all the 1st pix are like they were displayed on the previous forum(& how you do that?) & the last ones are thumbnails?

i prefer the former...

Hi Paul, the photo display differences are because the first lot were imported from Photobucket and the last bunch uploaded direct from my PC.

Thanks for the wrap by the way, it's all mother nature's doing.

[Palm Guy]

Wal,

Great garden! How much rain do you get in your area? I'm assuming it must be sufficient since your growing Clinostigmas and Neoveitchias. Do you use supplemental irrigation or does the wine bottle suffice??

Cheers!

Mike F

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Wal,

Nice scaling with the bottles, looks like you must have drunk 2 cases of wine, time to pick up all the bottles around the yard before Donna finds out her social groups wine is missing :D

thanks for the pics

colin

[amazondk]

Wal,

You could do a beer can or beer bottle thread as well. Is that plum wine? How does it taste?

dk

[Walter John]

Wal,

You could do a beer can or beer bottle thread as well. Is that plum wine? How does it taste?

dk

I forgot to answer you Don. I did taste this wine at the winery in Bundaberg and it didn't seem too bad, not great, we just bought the bottle as a piece of memorabillia, we'll never open it, just keep it hanging around as a reminder of a great holiday on the coral coast.

Anyone else been to the tropical winery in Bundy ? This is how it looked when we were there, it looked so strange, we had to check it out.

[JimR]

Why do these pictures remind me of those traveling gnome advertisements?