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Self-sown, but none the worse for that
This is the wattle I was on my way to photograph when the crash-landing cuckoo interrupted proceedings. It is a self-sown tree just inside the front fence which somehow avoided the weeder’s grasp long enough to be allowed remain and … Continue reading
What’s around – mid April
The Wet season has departed, we think, since my mid-March report. It went out with a bang (splash?), too: nearly 500 mm in the week of March 15 – 22. In fact, our last night of real rain was the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Insects and spiders
Tagged butterfly, dragonfly, katydid, seasonal change, Spider
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Toad Day Out
I am always reluctant to kill an animal – any animal – but I am less reluctant than usual when it comes to Cane Toads. They are a real pest up here and are spreading steadily to the south and … Continue reading
Self-sufficiency: bananas
When we came to this house twenty years ago we came to a somewhat neglected but well established garden. The house was already more than forty years old, a product of the post-war building boom that necessarily accompanied the post-war baby boom, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Conservation, Gardening
Tagged banana, banana varieties, Ducasse, Lady Finger Banana, sugar banana
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