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Old 06-05-2007, 01:41 AM posted to aus.gardens
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You need another trip Chook!! And keep eyes wide open.....



"Chookie" wrote in message
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Oh Chookie!!!
You are a Sydney Sider and haven't visited Mount Wilson?? They are

growing
in Paddocks up there with no trees for a hundred metres.


With the entire Great Dividing Range protecting them from westerly sun, I
presume? :-)

I've been to Mt Wilson only once and there seemed to be plenty of exotic
plants about in those big English-style gardens. Don't remember a single

tree
fern...

http://www.brettthompson.com.au/LARG..._OF_FERNS.html
shows them with tree cover.

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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