In article .com,
"earthgirl" wrote:

How about a 'sea-change'amongst a sea of rooves?
Can't help dreaming of greener rural pastures?
How about starting in suburbia. Share ideas on bringing green to the
city.

OK, how about your ideas? :-)

In my case I bought a larger-than-average piece of suburbia and planned to
grow my own fruit and vegies on it, and some chooks, and local native species.
Might gave to work a bit harder on hubby as he is resisting the chickens.
Someone has told me about this mob (http://rentachook.com.au/); maybe a stint
with chooks will soften him up a bit!

The native garden bed is doing very well and is flowering madly atm.
Eventually I will do something more with the natue strip -- it just has a
Council-planted bottlebrush on it and grass. WRT fruit I have strawberries
starting to flower, some sugar bananas (one flowering), a passionfruit vine, a
lemon tree in need of TLC, a self-sown mulberry and a quince tree. My vegie
patch OTOH is in a sorry state but my seedlings will be planted out in a month
or two.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.