The mid north coast of Australia a subtropical paradise. With thousands of hectares of rainforest that covers a fair chunk of it. Before settlement it would have been one very unique piece of land.

Now it has been fragmented into isolated areas broken up by farmland. Much of it is either state forests or national parks with a lot of special reserves locked up for conservation purposes.

With very unique plants that have adapted to cope with all sorts of climatic conditions, and relying on the animals for that symbiotic relationship to survive for a lot of species and visa versa with a lot of animals dependent on that ecosystem for survival.

The peace and quiet and with a lot of areas inaccessible to the family car there’s always a spot where you won’t see anyone at all except for the animals!

Beautiful!

What's this plant...I can't place it??

4 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

Beautiful!

What's this plant...I can't place it??

A vine that was scrambling along the ground.

Gorgeous photos. I’m looking forward to seeing scenes like that very soon.

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana is the building block, canopy plant of much of my landscape. It’s common, but a well grown one is beautiful. A landscape full of healthy ones is stunning.

10 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

Gorgeous photos. I’m looking forward to seeing scenes like that very soon.

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana is the building block, canopy plant of much of my landscape. It’s common, but a well grown one is beautiful. A landscape full of healthy ones is stunning.

Pioneer palms Cunninghamiana palms, the first palms I planted on my property. There’s plenty of them to see around this side of Australia.

They look there best when group plantings are done I reckon. A single specimen is a sight to see, but a grove is even better.

Winter photography is different than summer photography, in winter you capture more detail of the season, summer is different but the season details you capture in winter set the scene better.

They’re everywhere here on the south coast of WA which suits them. A few alexandrae too. Howea also look beautiful down here. A nice grove of bangalows are sweet.

We’ve made good use of these palms in our landscape here in the States. I started with good ole Queens(Syagrus Romanzoffiana) but came to like the Archie’s better. Unfortunately , I like the Syagrus so I’m stuck with the mess they create. The Archontophoenix aren’t near as messy . My Alexandrae has only flowered once in 25 years . My Cunninghamiana produce viable seed about every other year. I would much rather deal with the little red fruit than the mess from the Queen Palms every year . For a care free , self cleaning common palm , the Bungalow is hard to beat. It’s very nice to see them in habitat. Harry

A little slice of Australia here in Florida:

L to R:

Archontophoenix unknown (I think tuckeri)

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Archontophoenix unknown (supposed to be maxima)

Sphaeropteris cooperi

Archontophoenix cunninghamia (not as robust as the others)

Archontophoenix alexandrae

11 hours ago, happypalms said:

A vine that was scrambling along the ground.

Ripogonum discolor if my research is correct...nice looking vine!

10 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Gorgeous photos. I’m looking forward to seeing scenes like that very soon.

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana is the building block, canopy plant of much of my landscape. It’s common, but a well grown one is beautiful. A landscape full of healthy ones is stunning.

Agreed. I've planted a little forest of them in a small gully, but I'm going to have to do another one with A maxima, because some bloke gave me hundreds of them!