So, What's In Your Garden?

Done it · 18th February 2008, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Therrin

My girl's mum liked them and cared for them but her dad thought it a bit odd... men traveling with plants and such =)

I've got some chocolate flavored mint plants, pineapple sage, a potted night-blooming jasmine, Egyptian "walking" garlic, and four different types of peppers.

Fathers & daughters, it wouldn't matter what you had, you'd always be odd+. Can you imagine turning up at Ekka's place in about ten years. Apart from trees I have this night flower, a couple of grass mowers & a few protien machines, and a few frogs.

Bernard Keays · 18th February 2008, 04:41 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.

quercus · 19th February 2008, 06:39 PM

Too much to say.... A lot of medium sized trees, so they are my training trees.
So here are pics...

yooper · 19th February 2008, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ekka

Oh, they're the snakes that evolved from the Loch Ness monster, travelled across frozen lands, bit Big Foot on the azz and now are frightening children in bed time stories.

Ekka, they shurley did not come from the Lock Ness,

we all know that he is just a fairy tale. Snow Snakes are evolved from "Champ" A true monster of the lakes here in North America. And It is a well know fact here that they never crossed frozen land(what a silly comment

) as they swam here millions of years ago through the Great Lakes. I am very lucky to live on the shore of Lake Superior to be able to see so many tracks of the snow snake(Although I have only seen tracks I do know they are here) I will keep an eye out, hopefully I can capture a blurry photo to show ya all....As they all come out that way. Im thinking it has something to do with the magnetic field that surrounds them. You all have a good day

yooper · 19th February 2008, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by quercus

Too much to say.... A lot of medium sized trees, so they are my training trees.
So here are pics...

Are those a type a weeping willow? or black willow? and in photo no.3 is the one cut off about a few meters is that a willow too?

quercus · 19th February 2008, 08:49 PM

weeping willows... don't know for sure how you guys call it though... the other one is a willow too.

Bermy · 24th February 2008, 11:02 AM

We've got a tiny 600sq' cottage, with a walled garden, outside the wall about an acre of grass, trees and shrubs.

Surinam Cherry that is covered in blossom right now, we'll be loaded in cherries in about a month. The birds will get to them on the ground and be staggering around tipsy!

Loquats, picked ten gallons already, next round is ripening as we speak.

Albizzia - two nice big ones, shade for the sitting out area and practice tree, also good for entertaining small guests...hook up a cambium saver, harness and blakes and let 'em loose!

Paw paws, ripe now, eat em for breakfast most mornings, nice with lemon and brown sugar..

A nice red mulberry I grew from a cutting, its about seven years old and well over 12', just pruned it.

A small Poinciana we brought over in a barge from the mainland, I rescued it from a construction site...doing well now eight years on.

Bermuda Cedars, Bermuda Palmettos, Olivewood... doing my bit for local conservation.

Match-me-can (Alcalypha), allspice, pittosporum, fiddlewood, mexican pepper, hibiscus, oleander etc. etc. in the hedgerows and scrubland.

Anole lizards, bluebirds (babies in the box last year), cardinals, vireos, goldfinch, warblers, owls, kiskadees(yellow bandits) and a blasted mob of starlings!!!

Down at the dock there are parrotfish, bright green and brown; mullet, houndfish, cowfish, black joes, slippery dicks, grey snapper, grunts, hogfish...shall I go on?

18th February 2008, 04:41 AM	#27 (permalink)
Bernard Keays Sappling Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Glasshouse Posts: 41	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

19th February 2008, 08:49 PM	#31 (permalink)
quercus Mature tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium Posts: 426	Re: So, What's In Your Garden? weeping willows... don't know for sure how you guys call it though... the other one is a willow too.

24th February 2008, 11:02 AM	#32 (permalink)
Bermy Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bermuda Posts: 67	Re: So, What's In Your Garden? We've got a tiny 600sq' cottage, with a walled garden, outside the wall about an acre of grass, trees and shrubs. Surinam Cherry that is covered in blossom right now, we'll be loaded in cherries in about a month. The birds will get to them on the ground and be staggering around tipsy! Loquats, picked ten gallons already, next round is ripening as we speak. Albizzia - two nice big ones, shade for the sitting out area and practice tree, also good for entertaining small guests...hook up a cambium saver, harness and blakes and let 'em loose! Paw paws, ripe now, eat em for breakfast most mornings, nice with lemon and brown sugar.. A nice red mulberry I grew from a cutting, its about seven years old and well over 12', just pruned it. A small Poinciana we brought over in a barge from the mainland, I rescued it from a construction site...doing well now eight years on. Bermuda Cedars, Bermuda Palmettos, Olivewood... doing my bit for local conservation. Match-me-can (Alcalypha), allspice, pittosporum, fiddlewood, mexican pepper, hibiscus, oleander etc. etc. in the hedgerows and scrubland. Anole lizards, bluebirds (babies in the box last year), cardinals, vireos, goldfinch, warblers, owls, kiskadees(yellow bandits) and a blasted mob of starlings!!! Down at the dock there are parrotfish, bright green and brown; mullet, houndfish, cowfish, black joes, slippery dicks, grey snapper, grunts, hogfish...shall I go on? __________________ Keep smiling, people will wonder what you are up to! (especially if you're gunning a chainsaw!)

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