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Wollemi Pine
"JennyC" wrote in message
... "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote the Superb Blue Wrens clean them up totally. http://birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=3 WOW - pretty :~)) Yes, as usual, it's the male who is the pretty one but he only puts on his blue plumage at mating time. :-)) I can sit on my back verandah watching these tiny birds cleaning up the aphids with no fear at all from we humans. I can see no reason to cause myself work by dragging out a nasty to spray to kill the aphids if these wonderful little birds are doing the work for me and giving me entertainment at the same time. I also have a lot of "Blue tongue Lizards" and skinks in my garden and these eat snails but are poisoned by snail bait. They give me a shock every now and then when I see then because I sometimes mistake them for snakes but they too are more than welcome. They are preyed on by the raptor family and I get to see them too. I think of my garden in a titheing sense. Some for me and some for the insects, small vertibrates and birds. I won't have kangaroos in the garden though. they are not tolerated. Lizards, skinks, raptors (!!!)................ You forgot the snakes :-)) Amazing critters but I wish they'd go elsewhere - mind you, even they need water too these days. You should see the "real" birds we can see here - by this I mean the Wedge Tailed Eagles that soar overhead on the thermal currents. These are truly magnificent - bigger then the American Eagle and always being chased by magpies which look like tiny specks when they get up close to the Eagles (our magpies are black and white but not the same as the British ones). Do you have some pictures of your garden to share with us ?? Unfortunately I don't and to be honest, no-one would want to see it in it's current sad state. 6 years of drought and we are now making decisions about what we are going to save if things keep going the way they are. We've decided it must be the trees as we won't be able to grow them again to the current height in our lifetime. The roses will survive being as tough as old boots, as will my named irises but anything else will have to just have to take its chances. We are now in the process of building a shade house as I suspect that I may have to take things out of the garden and put them in pots. I'm watering the rose bed which has 50-70 roases in it and other plants and I'm trying to keep a few veg going (corn, tomatoes, rhubarb, cucumber, zucchini, chard, pak choi and a few salad greens and herbs) but beyond that.......... Bloody depressing. |
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