Gladstone's Tondoon Botanic Gardens are amazing – huge, well-maintained and just a fantastic place to be. This is from the entrance, through various sections of Australian plants and ending at the “Economic Agriculture” section of the gardens containing unusual fruit trees – and Australia's largest bee,
We start off in some of the wetter sections, look for some food (no luck) before heading into some drier habitat, check out some banksia flowers and grass trees. We check out a couple of Black bean trees that have set seed pods, look at a Terminalia species before heading off-path to see how the Bunyas are cropping this year – it's an off-year.
Staying off-path we check out a native caper that is in bud before heading to the rare fruits collection.
On the way I tell one of the amazing tales of the life of Bob Tondoon, the person whom he gardens are named after – 23:30 is where that starts. Very interesting chap.
I score a Barbados cherry and we come across the Great carpenter bee – Australia's largest bee – that's busy pollinating some flowers.
I didn't wear my old shirt on this trip because when I took it to Bundaberg gardens I actually took a spare shirt in case it packed it in. I was worried I'd move and hulk out of it so that shirt can finish its usefulness closer to home.
Buy me a coffee:
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00:00 – Intro and the plan
1:25 – Into the gardens!
23:30 – A tale of Bob Tondoon, falafel fraudster
30:03 – Great carpenter bee
32:10 – Moving on
