Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens

[newcal]

While I was on my recent NSW travels, I stopped at the Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens, located just north of the city in the coastal strip, right on the Pacific Highway.

Coffs has a reasonably mild climate, with high rainfall and good summer humidity. The palms and trees growing there were impressive.

Cheers

Mike Green (Newcal)

Tree Waratah

Alexandrae

Large plants of Dypsis leptocheilos and Ravenea rivularis

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[newcal]

Dypsis pembana

Ravenea glauca

Caryota urens

Dypsis sp bejofa

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[newcal]

Madagascan section

Bismarckia nobilis

Chambeyronia

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[newcal]

Caryota mitis

Bottle Palm Island

Cheers,

Mike Green (Newcal)

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[Walter John]

Neat Mike, love the bottle palm island. Those pembana looked a little shaken from last winter.

[newcal]

I gotta say Wal, i was really impressed with the Coffs Harbour Botanical gardens in the way of design,access ,plant labelling of species, areas of different countries, large open areas and sheltered rainforest pockets and plant sales at the front entrance. I could easily of spent acouple of hours there but due to having to be at Port Macquarie by3 pm we were pushed for time. The gardens have a boardwalk that follows the creek through mangroves and then into subtropical rainforest dominated by Livistona australis and Archontophoenix cunninghamiana and the cycad Lepidozamia peroffskyana. The gardens are about 2 kms from the ocean so i was surprised to see some frost damage on some of the palms. A friend that lives at Urunga (20 mins south of Coffs) did say they had pretty heavy frosts last winter though! Any way next time you're in the area, make sure you call in and check it out .... you won't be dissappointed!.....Cheers Mike Green (Newcal)

[Jeff in St Pete]

Mike, thanks for the beautiful photos. Looks like a great place to spend a day!

[bubba]

Mike, Wow!What a great assortment of Palms at 30 degrees Latitude! As we move to Winter, it is great to see Spring. Is Coff's Harbour near Brisbane? Thank you

[Walter John]

Is Coff's Harbour near Brisbane?

Nowhere near it Bubba. Coffs is about 400 km south of Brizzy.

[paulgila]

great shots as always,mike! that bizzie rocks!

[Kris]

Dear Mike

thanks for the tour & lovely big stills...of beautiful palms !

lots of love,

Kris

[Philpalm]

Hi Mike

Well great to see many of the palms there in Coffs Botanical gardens are still doing well. When I planted many of the more tropical species there back in the 90s I was wondering how they would do. They have survived and surpassed my expectations. Even the Dypsis Bejofa, both of them doing well.

You forgot to mention the Dypsis Lanceolata there in front of the Bissie, looks like it is flowering now?? Dypsis pembana coming out of its winter leaf!!

Sp I planted there I guess in 1995 or 96 cant quite remember now. Dypsis Bejofa,Dypsis Lanceolata,Dypsis Lastelliana,Bec Mada,Ravenea glauca, Acromia acuelata.

I lived in Coffs for over 20 years and as said the climate is on the border of warm temperate to sub trop but often we experienced just above freezing temps.

Coffs Botanical gardens has its own micro-climate nestled among the mangroves of Coffs creek and many of the gardens are protected now from strong winds through planting of selected native rainforest trees.

Anyway thanks for the pics Mike look great mate.

Jerry(philippines)

[newcal]

Jerry, congratulations on the plantings at the Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens....They look great! I just hope there's still someone there adding and planting new species to the already impressive collection. By the way, that Dypsis lanceolata was in fruit and i managed to get afew ripe seeds that had fallen on the ground....Cheers Mike Green (Newcal).PS....That's abit of a change going from quiet little Coffs to the Philippines. Why the change? . Also welcome to the board....You'll find it very informative and informal at the same time!

[SubTropicRay]

That's a beautiful garden. The Bottle palm placement is very creative.

[LJG]

Thanks for the pics. Someone must have hooked these guys up as there are some rare finds there.

[Shon]

Great pics. Everything looks really good except that pembana like Wal said.

[Philpalm]

Jerry, congratulations on the plantings at the Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens....They look great! I just hope there's still someone there adding and planting new species to the already impressive collection. By the way, that Dypsis lanceolata was in fruit and i managed to get afew ripe seeds that had fallen on the ground....Cheers Mike Green (Newcal).PS....That's abit of a change going from quiet little Coffs to the Philippines. Why the change? . Also welcome to the board....You'll find it very informative and informal at the same time!

Well Mike I am pleased that you got some of the D.Lanceolata fruit. Why are there still fruit on the ground strange no one snapped them up hey? Must be the only one round there fruiting!!

As far as I know there isnt anyone adding to the collection of palms there. Shame as many more could be added to the collection. If I stayed there I would have added many more.

I moved to Cairns from Coffs in 2003 and 3 years ago I moved to the Philippines. I am busy establishing a palm nursery here, introducing the Filipinos to some exotic beauties. They have Foxtails growing here everywhere gone crazy..Palms grow like weeds here amaizing growth alot better than Cairns I have found. Rich volcanic black soils bottomless. So thats really why I moved here.

I hope to post some pics of the palms here in the Philippines soon so check them out Mike!!!

Cheers

Jerry (Philippines)

Ps. By the way thanks for the welcoming me to the board.

[surferjr]

Dypsis pembana

Ravenea glauca

Caryota urens

Dypsis sp bejofa

Hi Mike,

Looks like a great garden.

You didn't by chance get a close-up picture of that Dypsis sp bejofa, or another angle did you? As this species has been in great discussion for a while now.

Happy Holidays,

clark