Creaking Tree Flat - Premna serratifolia - Coastal Premna,Creek Premna

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Raintrees Native and Rainforest Gardens, Diamond Beach,
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Creaking Tree Flat Flat is so named because just off to the side of the area are two tall Eucalypt trees with large branches that have grown against each other. When the wind blows the branches rub together creating a loud creaking noise.

Originally I'd named this north east corner of the property 'Kemp's Wood Flat' after the owner of the original farm of which Raintrees was once a small portion of.
Kemp Trotter's dairy farm and its several hundred acres of pristine wet sclerophyll forest once extended in a one kilometre metre easterly band centred on the eastern end of what is today the intersection of Figtree Drive and Panorama Drive right through to South Diamond Beach (Seascape Beach).

In the early 1990's, the grandchildren of Kemp Trotter, and children of Ailsa Guilfillan, subdivided the western end of the original farm. The subdivision was called Kemp's Wood in honour of Kemp Trotter.
The prevailing attitude of the developer, Eric Guilfillan, was that the blocks would be subdivided with minimal clearing of the existing forest. Each block was sold with a cleared house site to discourage further clearing.
Sadly this policy of minimal clearing proved somewhat idealistic and the blocks sold slowly and failed to reach the prices they may have otherwise done had the trees all been cleared.
The northern side of the original Trotter farm was owned by the Castiletto family and when they subdivided in the mid 1980's they did so after first clear felling most of the forest. The blocks sold well.
This expectation that rural acreage blocks be cleared of forest in order that they may be sold at maximum developer profit is a sad reflection on out times.
When we purchased the 6.5 acre Kemp's Wood portion of the original Trotter Farm in December 1993, we always had the intention of retaining the forest.
The existing cleared house site on Kemp's Wood was located on the south eastern corner of the property, today known as Wallaby Flat, however that site, later to be opposite a pre-school, did not suit our needs so we cleared a house site in the middle of the property, aware that this would always limit any future subdivision potential. We have no regrets in that regard.
From December 1993 we began planting rainforest trees on Kemp's Wood, after which we briefly named the property Wrightswood, before settling on the name Raintrees a few years later.
These days the property is an arboretum known as Raintrees Native and Rainforest Gardens and comprises well over 1000 native rainforest species.
After some years earlier having unsuccessfully applied to have parts of the property put under a 'Voluntary Conservation Agreement' (VCA), in late 2020 the property was assigned 'Land for Wildlife' as well as 'Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust' certification.

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