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Bernard Keays · 18th February 2008, 05:41 AM

Mrs Ekka,

We?ve got 2 Acres at Glasshouse. It?s a pretty area but the State Government doing their bit to change this (Northern Pipeline, Railway up grade, Bruce Highway duplication?). We have planted lots of trees and shrubs in our garden. I try to walk around the property every day just to see what?s going on. We have kookaburras, kingfishers, fairy wrens, silver eyes, fire tails, double barred finches, yellow robins, whip birds, fly catchers, fantails, scrub wrens, brush wattlebirds, lewin?s honey eater, white cheeked honey eaters, scarlet honey eaters, fig birds, spangled drongoes, brown doves, rainbow lorikeets and occasionally black cockatoos. A pair of pee wee?s nested in the frangipani tree outside the bath room window. They dive boomed me this summer when I was trying to clean the gutters. We also have the odd lace monitor and carpet snake. Sometimes you can walk around the garden and hear the birds going off. It?s usually a carpet snake that they have found. At night, sometimes you can find the odd sugar glider or ring tail but more commonly it?s a brush tail. Last year we had a pair of micro bats in one of my bat boxes. I think they had young but I didn?t want to disturb them. They stayed for about 2 months. We have lots of frogs at the moment. Mostly striped marsh frogs but we also get tusk frogs, emerald spotted frogs and a green tree frog which lives in the down pipes. I have also found a green thighed frog but I haven?t seen one for a while. We have cane toads as well. Last weekend, we had a Richmond birdwing butterfly in the garden. I was stoked. We have about 12 vines some close to ten years old. The best ones are growing up the mulberry and mango trees along side of the house. Not so for the veggie garden. It?s overrun with pumpkins. So I have given up on planting anything else. We have also planted lots of cabinet timber trees. I thought one day I might get interested in wood turning but I?m just practicing my pruning on them for now. Declan likes flowers and he's got a herb garden. Its over run with salvias and mint at the moment. The wet weather is not helping either.

18th February 2008, 05:41 AM	#27 (permalink)
Bernard Keays Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Glasshouse Posts: 88	Re: So, What's In Your Garden? Mrs Ekka, We?ve got 2 Acres at Glasshouse. It?s a pretty area but the State Government doing their bit to change this (Northern Pipeline, Railway up grade, Bruce Highway duplication?). We have planted lots of trees and shrubs in our garden. I try to walk around the property every day just to see what?s going on. We have kookaburras, kingfishers, fairy wrens, silver eyes, fire tails, double barred finches, yellow robins, whip birds, fly catchers, fantails, scrub wrens, brush wattlebirds, lewin?s honey eater, white cheeked honey eaters, scarlet honey eaters, fig birds, spangled drongoes, brown doves, rainbow lorikeets and occasionally black cockatoos. A pair of pee wee?s nested in the frangipani tree outside the bath room window. They dive boomed me this summer when I was trying to clean the gutters. We also have the odd lace monitor and carpet snake. Sometimes you can walk around the garden and hear the birds going off. It?s usually a carpet snake that they have found. At night, sometimes you can find the odd sugar glider or ring tail but more commonly it?s a brush tail. Last year we had a pair of micro bats in one of my bat boxes. I think they had young but I didn?t want to disturb them. They stayed for about 2 months. We have lots of frogs at the moment. Mostly striped marsh frogs but we also get tusk frogs, emerald spotted frogs and a green tree frog which lives in the down pipes. I have also found a green thighed frog but I haven?t seen one for a while. We have cane toads as well. Last weekend, we had a Richmond birdwing butterfly in the garden. I was stoked. We have about 12 vines some close to ten years old. The best ones are growing up the mulberry and mango trees along side of the house. Not so for the veggie garden. It?s overrun with pumpkins. So I have given up on planting anything else. We have also planted lots of cabinet timber trees. I thought one day I might get interested in wood turning but I?m just practicing my pruning on them for now. Declan likes flowers and he's got a herb garden. Its over run with salvias and mint at the moment. The wet weather is not helping either. __________________ Bernie