Botanical Buzz | Palm tree has a fair history in the city

By Ron Watson
February 2 2018 - 8:00pm
Solitary Palm: This unimposing palm tree in Victoria Park, with an exotic background,  has a few stories to tell no doubt. Photo: CONTRIBUTED
Solitary Palm: This unimposing palm tree in Victoria Park, with an exotic background, has a few stories to tell no doubt. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

To outward appearances a shrubby, three-metre-high palm tree in the Rotary Centre, Victoria Park Dubbo, is someone’s idea of a joke. It is unimposing. Perhaps it is like those Washingtonia Palms which came up all over Victoria Park 15 years ago? They got burnt to the ground by vandals for cheap laughs. For months the skyline was lit up like a torch as once again a palm tree became a bonfire.

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