Tropical plant collectors show how to breed rare aroids | Gardening Australia

Look how massive these Philodendron gigas are! And that's just the tip of this aroid iceberg.
Chris Hall and Arden Dearden have an amazing large exotic home garden on the outskirts of Cairns; part production nursery and part plant collection.
The garden beds are packed with unusual palms, euphorbias and other tropical treasures, but it is the 3 shade houses that hold the real treasures. Rare, unusual, collectible and in some cases, unidentifiable, plant species from around the world fill shelves, the floors and hang from the rafters.
Chris and Arden have been obsessing about equatorial plants together for the last 20 years, travelling the world to see them in the wild, collecting seed and then propagating them for the garden.
Some in the collection are flowering, so Chris and Arden are busy pollinating to try to produce seed. ‘If there are two flowers present, we can do it right away, but otherwise we have to store the pollen in the freezer’. This is what Arden calls the ‘sperm bank’ - a fridge on the verandah storing only seed and pollen, containing the genetic material for a botanical garden!
Seeds are sown into sealed plastic bags - a simple but effective way to maintain moisture for germination. Importing seed into the country is becoming increasingly restricted, so they make the most of what material they have to preserve genetic diversity.
Arden says ‘There is always something new, every day. Yes, a new plant, but also just a new leaf, a new flower or a seed pod you have never seen before.’
FEATURED PLANTS
Philodendron gigas
This rare climbing aroid was planted in the ground decades ago by the pair, and now mounts a tree to display its enormous leaves.
QUEEN ANTHURIUM - Anthurium warocqueanum
One of Chris’ favourites from her collection. The stunning leaves show just why this anthurium is so collectable and why foliage is queen!
AMAZON CORAL TREE - Erythrina amazonica
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Glad it was helpful - thanks for watching!

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very consistent in taking care of her beautiful plants 👍

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Wow how optimistic is this story! So beautiful to see this.

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just wow wowwww , the queen , gigas .. stand outtt

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Amazing. Would love to see more native tropical gardens on the show

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WOW! This was so beautiful and soothing to watch! 🌱🌴🎋🌿 Absolutely stunning plants in nature being lovingly cared for!

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I love the story of how they met🌺

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Unbelievable a dream come true good for them.

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Omg this is so stunning to watch... You guys really care about these plants ♥🌱

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Woah I've seen that awesome gigas photo before! Such a magnificent waroq right there, an amazing garden and horticultural excellence!

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What a wonderful place to live .

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OMG Amazing plants .

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So lush and green, a complete different part of Australia, so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.

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So lush. I hope they have some nice tropical fruit trees too.

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very interesting that people can be so interested in ornamental plants on a scale like this, you have to make fruit for me to get my full attention

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Fascinating

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Wonderful tropical garden. Very exciting and full of motivation

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Thanks for sharing this beautiful video, great determination.

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Waooo that my dream someday...and thanks for all .love you

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Just gorgeous!

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Beautiful Aroid arid Amazing

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WOW! This place is absolutely STUNNING! I would love to film this place as well!

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A beautiful environment to be in =gorgeous plants indeed!!

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wow I love your collections!

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Amazing greens...

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Absolutely beautiful 🤩

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wow..beautiful aroid..i hv aroid too

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Four wheel drive wheel chair? Wow... what a dedication! 👏

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Marvelous

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A dream garden!

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Impresionante!!!

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xoxox I love this story. Thank you for putting some plant names up. Please put up more. What was that amazing red flower towards the beginning please?

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One seemed to be Ornamental flowering pomegranate and the other Red Ginger/Etlingera elatior.

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So really amazing Huge plants Growing in the wild like Philo Gigas you have. I hope soon I'll make my own tropical rainforest with Gigantic ornament plants here in Palawan ,Philippines 🇵🇭 I'm 20 years old .Date 10-28-2021 Time check 3:25-3:32 PM😊

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Living a horticultural dream.

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I really want to visit

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My dream garden

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I hope they also have Platycerium collection

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Heaven

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My dream house and life,

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Omg. I wish incan have that

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Awesome work and partnership there. Would love to be in their shoes

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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Gigas turns into that omg

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thats the dream, someday.

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I wanna come to your home.

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Hi gardening australia team.could you please tell me what the name of this nursery?and it that possible if you could tinclude the name of the on the show?thank you love all your work

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It is called Equatorial Exotics.

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Hi Chris and Arden , can I buy some of your seeds? The rare one from the tropics

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Whats the red flower plant called at 1.20 ?

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Do you sell any baby plant starters...I couldn't see if you have a web page?

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

It is called Equatorial Exotics.

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Beautiful garden/nursery but isn't there considerable risk of spreading invasive species into the bordering rainforest? Especially in a climate as fertile as Cairns which already has so many tropical environmental weeds.

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