the official "mattyb & paul in south florida" thread

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looks like cowellii

[MattyB]

The stinkiest dogs on earth.

Borgy came by and hung out! Very nice guy.

Paul, can you tilt your head any more.....more.....more.....perfect.

Paul hogging up the camera. C. suerona.

[MattyB]

Jeff had half a glass of cranberry juice and he starts to get loopy.

Grafted Floss Silk

[MattyB]

Andrea hard at work making dinner.

Shrimpies.....mmmmmm. Thanks for dinner Jeff and Andrea. It was amazing!

The Disneyland look.

Click for a kooky video from Jeff's!!!!! Paul's getting billigerent and throwing his beer bottles around.

[8er-moni]

Thank you - both - for this threat and the great pics :drool: :drool:

It looks as if you enjoyed the time

[paulgila]

funny,this is EXACTLY how i remember that evening:semi-dark & blurry with jeff making funny faces.

[paulgila]

interesting flowering tree in jeffs yard.

he may have just glued fake ones on to impress us,its hard to tell.

[MattyB]

Bombax maybe?

[paulgila]

thanks to jeff & andrea for opening up their home to us! they are both wonderful to hang out with & andrea

is quite the snarkstress in her own right!

friday morning after leaving jeffs place(jeff if anything is missing it was MATT) we headed to downtown homestead

to look for souvenirs & nothing else!

this area was not only the cute antique zone,but also a major truck route for big rigs. i vowed that as new mayor of homestead i would put an end to this "traffic travesty," a promise i have already reneged on.

(extra credit: name the palm that matt is leaning against!)

heres the nice lady from the antique shop who wouldnt stop talking to us.

we went into an art shop & crutches fell on me from the ceiling.i guess thats normal for florida.

[MattyB]

We had lunch at Casita Tejas in Downtown Homestead. I had the burro burrito and paul had the Chinchilla Chimichanga.

As Mayor of Homestead Paul vows to change the name to the "Seminole Vesicle Theater".

He does this everytime we pass a police station, or a police officer, or a prostitute.

The seed bandit strikes again.

[MattyB]

Ewwww, that's unsavory.

Kids, this is what you look like when your diet consists entirely of Cocktail Sauce, Jalepenos, and Miller High Life. Let that be a lesson to you.....drink Coors.

Back home at the Johnson Ranch. Fridge stocked, check.

Ken Johnson cooking up some delicious grub, check.

[MattyB]

BJ the action cat, check.

[paulgila]

those seeds were delicious.

[paulgila]

some shots from the drive back to the ken johnson ranch.

& people thing my house is a weird color!

deserted house down the block from ken johnsons. the yard STILL looks fabulous!

[paulgila]

matt wore the same shirt for what seemed like days on end. it may have just been the one day,though.

heres something that ken johnson whipped up for us. the potato salad was super-tasty,i've never had any quite like it.

conrad chows down in the kitchen...

then mans the grill with dad.

[MattyB]

Paul and I decided to take a romantic walk before the dinner party that night. These dwarf Scheflera line the roads for miles.

They air layer them and then come by and hedge them off

Farmville

The everpresent Royal.

[MattyB]

Moments before Paul unexpectedly clotheslined this poor dude. Yes it was funny.

[MattyB]

Lot's of Delonix regia planted along side the road too. Seed I collected are already germinating. I've got 3 in the ground at my place and going for more.

I'm so sad the blue tarp rotted away because it really added to the whole color scheme.

[paulgila]

so happy that the only time yer camera had enuff charge or memory was for the schefflera hedge,matt.

[MattyB]

boooyeahhhhhh. It's deserving of multiple pics I'd say. Thanks Ken for a great dinner, again!!!!

Paul doing what he does best, look suspiciously at me.

Next is monster PRA @ Fairchild's!!!!!!

[Ken Johnson]

Your doing a great job Boyz. Did you ever ask BSman about the fourth twin?

[MattyB]

Bill, were the original BS Man ranch hands identical triplets, identical twins and an older or younger sister, identical twins and 1 fraternal twin? Is there such a thing as identical triplets or do they have to come in multiples of 2? If so, can one twin be absorbed by the other thus creating only 3? Is the absorbed twin still hot?

[Jeff Searle]

"Well,What,Who".....omg, that was pretty funny. And I don't even remember that crappy shoot. Hell, I don't even remember Borgy walking around with us!

Great stuff guys, it was fun. But seriously, you two drink ALOT, and I do mean ALOT of beer. My god.

[yachtingone]

Matty, I want some of what yuo were drunking? In post 97 the guy on the bike must have had a reverse gear to get closelined. I'm not saying that's impossible?

[BS Man about Palms]

Bill, were the original BS Man ranch hands identical triplets, identical twins and an older or younger sister, identical twins and 1 fraternal twin? Is there such a thing as identical triplets or do they have to come in multiples of 2? If so, can one twin be absorbed by the other thus creating only 3? Is the absorbed twin still hot?

I counted 3 identical triplets.. all hot. from any angle.

Just remember. DAHM.

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Great friends ,good food palmy tshirt

[Walter John]

boooyeahhhhhh. It's deserving of multiple pics I'd say. Thanks Ken for a great dinner, again!!!!

Paul doing what he does best, look suspiciously at me.

Next is monster PRA @ Fairchild's!!!!!!

That's an avocado right ? They're biggies.

[Ken Johnson]

Florida avocados Wal. Bigger but not better.

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Tha shrimpacados kinda remind me of Beetlejuice Shrimp Cocktails...

[John in Andalucia]

Those avocados look like Bacon - the big smoothies. We grow these, and the smaller, Hass variety. I won't eat them on their own, but with shrimps, prawns, olive oil, or spiced up in general, I don't mind. I'd have been happy tucking into Ken's concoction!

[MattyB]

We're up to Saturday, the South Florida Palm Society's Sale at Fairchild's.

Paul and Ken as we're walking up from the parking lot in the lowlands. This is just moments before Ken kissed Paul.

Some hardscapeage. The Phoenix dactylifera in South Florida looked great. But for some reason people insist on planting lots of Phoenix canariensis and every last one of them looked like crap. Come on people. Give it up. Just horrible I say.

Attalea, something we don't see growing in CA.

[MattyB]

Cycad area looked cool. Actually, that Phoenix looks like canariensis and looks good. OK, the only one in SoFla that does.

The Society had thousands of seeds to give away for free. What a society!!!!!!

Unlike Paul, I hadn't planned on collecting any seed on this trip but I couldn't resist a few Copernicia hospita. Can you blame me?

[MattyB]

It was Jeff's birthday and we presented him with this T-shirt from Paul, FreakyPalmGuy, and myself. Art was done by Freaky in Temecula.

It says, "Jeff, PRA Team Macho Man"

Part of the PalmTalk crew that met up for the multi-coast PRA. L to R: Sur4Z, Bubba, Borgy, Jeff, Pohonkelapa, PalmIsland

Randy, pulled me aside and just had to show me this oddity, a variegated Pseudophoenix sargentii. I'm glad he did, I've never seen anything like it.

[MattyB]

Here he is getting his shots in.

The Copernicias were some of the most memorable palms seen on this trip.

Upskirt

C. baileyana I think. If Bubba ever drops dead while on a tour here, just dig a hole and push him in. He said.

[MattyB]

Syagrus coronata trunk detail

Random Attaleage

Paul and Bubba

This palm was trying to throw some adventitious roots at about 7 feet up. Weird.

[MattyB]

Paul did not put this crack in the palm trunk.....Ken did.

Here you go Kim

Ken looking innocent. We know you broke that palm Ken.

[MattyB]

Huge Hyphane sp.

[MattyB]

Rainbow Eucalyptus, E. deglupta

Philedendron

Some steel drum action

Click on this for the sounds of the day. And yes, all Bubba did all day was tell people what to do.

[MattyB]

Thrinax parviflora var. parviflora, I'd never seen this one before. Cool!

Encephelartos

Randy amongst the grotesquely huge Hyophorbes

Saybull

[MattyB]

Gaussia Gomez-Pompae I think

Dave-Vero leads Paul to the Pseudophoenix promised land.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Paul with the best P. vinifera ever!!!!!