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Posted by stephania Bangkok, Thailand (My Page) on Wed, Jul 30, 08 at 21:48
| Thanks friends (^_^) You're all welcome.
After their own adventures in the real jungle around my contry,
Steve & Dr Larry were able to survive back to Bangkok again.
So, I pleased them with an amazing trip at Nong Nooch Tropical & Botanical Garden, in Pattaya, east coast of Thailand.
The place could be one of the finest plant collection on the earth....Let's see
As Kerry's mention, LOL..that's not a miniature garden, it' real scale!
The boys were Kings up there...LOL
On canopy walk way among Palm collection.
My friend, Pongsan and Sutthisak with a huge specimen of "Coco de Mer" palm.
from Sea Shell Island which was getting fruit !!
My friend Gift Wattana with 'Coco de Mer'in bloom.
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RE: Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad trips in Thailand Part II
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| Stunning...I agree the garden is wonderful |
RE: Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad trips in Thailand Part II
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| An amazing 'garden of eden'...everything just looks so perfect, how do they keep it that way? Love the Stonehenge replica & those Bismarck palms are fantastic...wish we could grow those here. |
RE: Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad trips in Thailand Part II
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| i wonder - are the huge bottle trees still alive? i hear they are slowly dying - |
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Yep...Devo, you will not surprise if you realized that they use 2,000 workers
with about 10 millions bucks per month to keep their garden such beautiful. Yes Asianhort8, sadly that the Bottle Trees do love to grow in drier climate,
most of them slowy rotten away. I saw only one from ten alive. Well, back to our trip...
Some more nice landscapes in the garden. From the garden's resort we can see the 'Ant Tower' up to the big tree.
 Me on the tower top view with the lake side resort we did stay.
 Dr Larry with 'Giant Ant'
 Floating gardens
 Take some views 
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| For not out of our topic, we will bring you to the Brom House. Pot display at the front.
 Anders Lindstrom, botanist, curator and plant collection director did welcome.
 
Dr Larry with "Heart of Crypt'
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Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad collection
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Actually, beyond traveling, Steve & Dr Larry's mission here is survey the ability
to organize the World Bromeliad Conference at Nong Nooch Tropical Garden. Let's see what we have had here... We rode elephants for touring....(^_^) ...just kidding LOL
 LOL...we take an electric car.
 Get in one of the 20 brom nurseries.
 
Steve was being interested in an unknown Pitcairnia.
 In Crypt house, they were wonder with variation of Crypt. bivittatus.
 
Carpet of Crypt. 'Le rey'
 Carpet of Crypt. 'Elaine'
 Among the 10 thousands Crypt 'Le Rey' we discovered a new spot
which has mediated variegation.
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Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad trips in Thailand Part II
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Hohenbergia leopoldo-hostii
 Werauhia kupperiana, seed-grown from our good friend here, Lisa.
 Anders did show some stuff he just got.
 
Neo. 'Shelldance'
 Adam and his friend from Drawin Botanical Garden, Australia who joined with us.
 
Anders with Guzmania musaica
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Dr Larry with colourful Androlepis.
 Gift Wattana, my friend with Orthophytum collection.
 In another Brom houses.
 
This Aechmea use to be in genus Streptocalyx
 
A nice Aechmea ?
 I love this one.
 Neophytum 'Galactic Warrior'
 In bloomer Brom house. Larry did point my friend a 'Mother Day' plant.
 
In Till. house.
 
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Steve & Dr Larry in xeric collection
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In xeric house, we found many interesting Crypts.
 
Dr Larry was appreciated with this undescribed zebra xeric Crypt.
 
My friend, Gift with xeric broms that he has been interested in.
 
A very nice clone of Dyckia marnier-lapostollei
 In mesic house, they were enjoyed talking about rare species of Navia and Ortho.
 I hope all of you guys will enjoy our trip...but yet, there are some more,
please continue the Part III soon. |
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| Steph!!! Your pics are normally excellent but you have outdone yourself with this batch from Nong Nooch!!! Awesome, all the colour has been a visual over-load. Some of the Crypts as stunning and looks like I have way too few varieties in my garden and will have to get some more.. Thanks again. Dennis |
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Many thanks for sharing all these great images of Nong Nooch with us all. Brings back memories of our trip there last June. Simply a amazing place. The giant replica ants interested us. Heres some pics
 
Its not all plants at Nong Nooch
 Love the N 'Shelldance'. Glad to see some of the guests are finally wearing shorts !! with a sweltering 30 + how could they be wearing longs in Bangkok ?? By the way one thing we picked up on is the broms are all mist sprayed from over head sprinkler system every minute keeping them and us from drying out. Keeping the leaves moist helps stop the heat stress. |
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| Thanks Dennis with my pleasure. (^_^) Wow Jaga, I like your bird's eye view pic. Chanin |
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| Wow, every time I check back there's more! Just great, Chanin! Nice to see my Werauhia seedlings getting big, and I love the gateway of clay pots too. |
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| http://www.nongnoochtropicalgarden.com/en/index.asp should you guys plan to visit this place - here's a link of the site so you can make your bookings i've been there many times and it's always a treat :) |
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Simply magnificent. You should get hired by the National Geographic Society. I used to think that being a greenskeeper at a golf course would be a tedious job, but after I saw those first photos....
Chanin, in your last photo, the Navia the fellow 's holding, do you know if that is N. tentacula? Thanks again for all these photos!!! |
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| I am out of breath, that was just so much. Thanks again! Rigo |
RE: Steve & Dr Larry 's Bromeliad trips in Thailand Part II
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| Thanks once again Chanin for this most amazing trip you've taken us on. Your fantastic photography just gets better and better - Now onto Part three - All the best Nev. |
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