Strelitzia Nicolai
By Meanie
27 Nov, 2009
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Bunked off work this afternoon & came across this in Oxfords botanic gardens!!
It's huge!!
If you look carefully you can just make out the flower.
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Bernieh - You have the climate to grow them out there, do people have them?
28 Nov, 2009
Yes they do grow them but they're not common up here in the dry tropics ... I have seen one in my old neighbourhood and it was a massive thing. It was eventually cut down because it was interfering with power lines though.
28 Nov, 2009
'Dry tropics'!!!
I spent 6 weeks in Townsville/Cairns & it peed down almost daily!
28 Nov, 2009
Lol! You must have been visiting Townsville during one of our infrequent wet seasons - it definitely rains far more up in Cairns than it does here.
28 Nov, 2009
Enjoyed it though - spent some good nights in the Victoria which was a bit of a bikers joint.
Queenslanders were pretty laid back (except in Brisbane)!
28 Nov, 2009
Yes we - Queenslanders that is - have the reputation over here of being like the country cousins ... definitely laid back! Brisbanites are trying too hard!
28 Nov, 2009
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They're a fabulous specimen - we call them Bird of Paradise trees because they grow so tall.
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