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Eucalyptus: A globetrotting, koala-feeding, fire-loving friend

You look up at a towering tree with peeling bark and smooth skin underneath, soft colours, sparse leaves, and feel like you’ve gone back in time to a land without humans. Both ancient and timeless. Chaotic and calm.

 

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Delightful dahlias

From their wild Mexican roots to their roles in medicine, myth, and massive parades, dahlias remind me that plants are intertwined with our culture and history well beyond the garden fence.

 

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Go Nuts For Coconuts

In the Malay language, it is fittingly called pokok seribu guna, "the tree of a thousand uses".

 

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The Water Lily, Princess of the Pond

“It is, however, as an object of beauty that the Water-Lily claims our attention; and nothing can be more lovely than a calm lake on whose bosom may be seen floating numbers of these snowy nymphs.”

 

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The Humble Daffodil

“And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.”

 

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