As you leave the “Children’s Garden”, directly to your right in the garden bed is the tallest tree in the gardens, a magnificent Queensland Kauri Pine (Agathis robusta). It is a very valuable timber tree and is found naturally in dense rainforests in QLD. Many experts say it is the finest specimen they have ever seen.
“Tall, aren’t I. That’s what everyone says and they’re right. I’m the tallest tree in the gardens. I can see all the way down Dean Street from here.”
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The Queensland Kauri Pine tree: "Tall, aren’t I. That’s what everyone says and they’re right. I’m the tallest tree in the gardens. I can see all the way down Dean Street from here. Buyna, The Wollemi Pine and me, are some of the most ancient trees here.
Want to know something? I miss my family. We trees are nice to each other, but there’s nothing like having your own kind next to you. I’d love to live in a forest, a forest full of pines just like me or a national park. Yeah. Oh well, a tree can dream, I guess."
