![]() ![]() I mean, everything's 's almost like precision growing!īILL DEWAR: A lot of the watering's done from underneath. Most of these plants, I've never even seen before. This is a serious manshed! Spend a bit of time in here do we?īILL DEWAR: Oh yeah! I reckon 10 or 12 hours a day. JOSH BYRNE: Bill's collection goes on and on - over 3 hectares and then.whoa! There's dichotoma(Quiver Tree - Aloe dichotoma) and also ramosissima(Maiden's Quiver Tree - Aloe ramosissima) which is a much smaller growing one. JOSH BYRNE: Fantastic and how many species have you got?īILL DEWAR: Three. So really, perfect here in Perth.sandy soil, dry summer. JOSH BYRNE: Ok.and long-lived I take it?īILL DEWAR: Yep. This one's a good size, but they're long-lived and slow growing, so it can get much bigger.īILL DEWAR: Given time, it'll probably make a 3 or a 4 foot diameter stem and probably 40 foot tall. JOSH BYRNE: As always! And how old is it? JOSH BYRNE: This place is a smorgasbord of plants, but it's the tree aloes that have caught my eye.īILL DEWAR: This is Bainesii(Tree Aloe - Aloe barbaraesyn. JOSH BYRNE: So don't touch it, don't eat it? ![]() Yeah, there's a nerve toxin as well as the carcinogenic one. Highly toxic.the flesh around those seeds?īILL DEWAR: Absolutely. Cycads are an ancient group of plants found in Africa, Asia, the Americas and here in Australia. I'll show you.there's some pollen coming out of it. Now he's into plants - big time - as a collector.īill's interest in plants started with palms, then he moved onto succulents and cycads.īetter watch out for the spiky fronds on these ones!īILL DEWAR: This is Encephalartos hildebrandtii(Mombasa Cycad).īILL DEWAR: It's a male. JOSH BYRNE: Bill Dewar used to farm beef cattle. JOSH BYRNE: And this is just a taste of it I guess? JOSH BYRNE: And where did that sort of come from.that interest?īILL DEWAR: Oh it started off with collecting cycads and then I get over there, touring around the countryside and noticed all the succulents and aloes and euphorbias and the whole shooting match. What's the story there?īILL DEWAR: Oh I love the place and I tried to turn this into a little Africa. I mean, I'm sort of getting this sort of sense of Africa with the plant selection. JOSH BYRNE: What an amazing place you've got here. The landscape, an eclectic mix of African veldt, local bush and an assortment of palms.Ĭlearly, this is no ordinary property and I reckon there's promise of some most unusual plants. If the TFCA were to be expanded, it would incorporate the Sperrgebiet National Park, areas of private and communal land and the //Gamaseb and Gawachab conservancies.JOSH BYRNE: I'm on safari in country about an hour north of Perth. Since 2007, the Joint Managment Board has been investigating the feasibility of expanding the ARTP into a larger TFCA that will include other areas of land. A pontoon allows tourists to move between the two countries – across the Orange River – through the parks. On 16 October 2007 the Sendelingsdrift border post on the Orange River was opened as a joint port of entry with police and immigration services on both sides of the river. The DWNP leads the MET’s efforts in this bilateral initiative. The ARTFP is the furthest developed of the three transboundary conservation initiatives in which Namibia is involved. The area is well known for its rugged landscapes, including Namibia’s Fish River Canyon, the Orange River, and unique plant life such as the quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma), maiden’s quiver tree (Aloe ramosissima), the rare giant quiver tree (Aloe pillansii) and the halfmens (Pachypodium namaquanum). It was established by the governments of Namibia and South Africa and provides for joint management of the Richtersveld National Park (South Africa) and /Ai-/Ais Hot Springs Park (Namibia). The /Ai-/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTFP) jointly conserves a large part of the Succulent Karoo Biome which is an international biodiversity hotspot. ![]()
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