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 fl