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Palms and others on my way through Australia

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April 3, 20179 yr

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Melbourne there took also the international flower and garden Show place, so I went there as well

All in all the plants on display and for sale were very "European" and reminded what we grow at home in our gardens so it wasn't too exciting for me...

Edited April 3, 20179 yr by Ben1

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April 3, 20179 yr

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Great Ocean Road

Grampians National Park

MacKenzie Falls

Pics of the Adelaide Botanic Garden will follow soon...

Edited April 3, 20179 yr by Ben1

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April 5, 20179 yr

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As promised pics from the Adelaide Botanic garden

Bicentennial conservatory behind rose collection

Alley with Moreton Bay fig trees, planted in 1866!

Next destination will be Alice Springs from where I'll fly to Darwin a few days later...

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April 5, 20179 yr

Wow, beautiful scenery! Thanks for posting!

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April 5, 20179 yr

My hands are shaking so much I can hardly type . . . .

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April 6, 20179 yr

Gorgeous! I spent some time in Australia last year, so interesting seeing the different vegetation througout the east coast, being from France it all looked so exotic...!

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April 13, 20179 yr

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Kangaroo Island

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April 13, 20179 yr

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Pics from Alice Springs' Botanic Garden 'olive pink'

I have to say I was a bit disappointed as I was expecting at least some cacti and succulents but the only had native scrubs

Other things in Alice Springs

Uluru and the Kata Tjuta National park ('the Olgas')

Kings Canyon

At some places in the Canyon there grew some native Macrozamia macdonnellii

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April 13, 20179 yr

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On Tuesday I flew to Darwin.

On my second day I just wandered around to have a look at the city.

I have to say that the garden beds surrounding the old administrator's office were a lot more interesting to me then the building itself ;-)

I JUST LOVED all the nice caladiums. Some of them (thick leaves, untypical leave shape) were Thai types, I reckon. What do you think?

Other things in the city

Today I've visited the botanical garden. Pics will follow soon.

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April 14, 20179 yr

Yowza! Great photos! Thanks so much for posting them. Hey, Ben, do you know what the shrub with the large, pendulous racemes of yellow flowers is (in the photo with the cyrtostachys renda)? I've never seen it before. Thanks.

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April 17, 20179 yr

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On 14.4.2017, 20:47:04, annafl said:

Yowza! Great photos! Thanks so much for posting them. Hey, Ben, do you know what the shrub with the large, pendulous racemes of yellow flowers is (in the photo with the cyrtostachys renda)? I've never seen it before. Thanks.

@annafl sorry, I don't know. It was just plante die somewhere so there's wasn't a tag or something like that. I quite liked it too.

maybe someone else could help out?

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April 17, 20179 yr

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Here the pictures from the Darwin Botanical Garden

Attalea

Lodoicea maldivica. Just love this palm! :)

Arenga hookeriana

They had an amazing cycad collection!

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April 17, 20179 yr

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Over the Easter weekend I had a 3 day tour to the Kakadu- and Litchfield-Nationalpark

There were heaps of this native palm. Don't know what species it is though... any ideas?

Motor car falls

Wangi falls

Tomorrow I'll fly to Thailand were I'm gonna visit (amongst other things) the Lumphini park, the King Rama IX park and of course the Nong Nooch Gardens...

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April 17, 20179 yr

8 hours ago, Ben1 said:

Over the Easter weekend I had a 3 day tour to the Kakadu- and Litchfield-Nationalpark

There were heaps of this native palm. Don't know what species it is though... any ideas?

Motor car falls

Wangi falls

Tomorrow I'll fly to Thailand were I'm gonna visit (amongst other things) the Lumphini park, the King Rama IX park and of course the Nong Nooch Gardens...

Livistonia Humilis ( common Top End name 'Sand Palm' )

And its a fair old walk into Motor Car Falls 'eh ? ( 7 or 8 klm round trip ) But certainly worth the effort. The several times I have visited we've had the Falls all to ourselves.

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April 18, 20179 yr

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13 hours ago, greysrigging said:

Livistonia Humilis ( common Top End name 'Sand Palm' )

And its a fair old walk into Motor Car Falls 'eh ? ( 7 or 8 klm round trip ) But certainly worth the effort. The several times I have visited we've had the Falls all to ourselves.

@greysrigging Thanks a lot for the identification!

Indeed I got pretty hot during the walk, but the swim was very rewarding all definitely well worth it

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April 18, 20179 yr

1 hour ago, Ben1 said:

@greysrigging Thanks a lot for the identification!

Indeed I got pretty hot during the walk, but the swim was very rewarding all definitely well worth it

Yes, its a bit of a mission in there.....we carry beer ( being long term locals that we are....lol )

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June 14, 20179 yr

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Hey guys,

sorry it took me a while to sort other things (finding a job again and a big clean up for my garden) but here are the promised pictures from Thailand, were I stayed for 8 days on my way back home at the end of April.

Bangkok has amazing plant markets. The best was the Chatuchak market. During the weeking (on Wednesday to be more precisely) the whole area is dedicated to plants. I've spent hours on this market =)