Wondering again in the garden

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A few shots of the garden there’s always something new to look at it never ends 

[peachy]

I tried to find an elkhorn fern since 1990 when I moved to Qld. I used to see them on trees in paddocks or garden but the shops only ever have the other kind. Platycerium Bifurcata, with the long fronds. I bought a few over the years labelled as elkhorn but they always turned out to be the ordinary things. A few months back at a local plant fair I finally found one after all these years. It was very tiny and quite pricey but it is growing like mad and will soon be big like yours. My bitch list follows ... my orchids never flower, my Cycas revolata is 20 years old, still small and always dead ends on the leaflets, proteas die before I finish planting them, I don't get gorgeous king parrots here at all, just pretty finches and a bunch of ordinary found everywhere birds. Everytime I plant any kind of ginger they go feral and take over the place and it takes years to get rid of them. The 5th photo down (I think), the one after the picture of the Rhapis and the Bismarck. What is the palm that looks like it has fronds all the way down the trunk ? Looks lovely in the photo. You can keep the rotten scrub turkey. So many gardens around here are nearly destroyed by them in a few hours. Very destructive things.  In the photo of the inedible turkey is a plant in the bottom right corner, wide leaves, what is that please ? 

Peachy

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8 hours ago, peachy said:

I tried to find an elkhorn fern since 1990 when I moved to Qld. I used to see them on trees in paddocks or garden but the shops only ever have the other kind. Platycerium Bifurcata, with the long fronds. I bought a few over the years labelled as elkhorn but they always turned out to be the ordinary things. A few months back at a local plant fair I finally found one after all these years. It was very tiny and quite pricey but it is growing like mad and will soon be big like yours. My bitch list follows ... my orchids never flower, my Cycas revolata is 20 years old, still small and always dead ends on the leaflets, proteas die before I finish planting them, I don't get gorgeous king parrots here at all, just pretty finches and a bunch of ordinary found everywhere birds. Everytime I plant any kind of ginger they go feral and take over the place and it takes years to get rid of them. The 5th photo down (I think), the one after the picture of the Rhapis and the Bismarck. What is the palm that looks like it has fronds all the way down the trunk ? Looks lovely in the photo. You can keep the rotten scrub turkey. So many gardens around here are nearly destroyed by them in a few hours. Very destructive things.  In the photo of the inedible turkey is a plant in the bottom right corner, wide leaves, what is that please ? 

Peachy

First up I think a Madonna Lilly or spathilium the large leaved one but a varient not the little house plant one second I think you are looking at a draceana Janet Craig on the right  or the native cordyline in my area on the left with the red berries oh and the brush turkeys I told my wife don’t feed them but oh no she fed them and after around a dozen moved in to what was paradise they destroyed many new plants along with all my bulbs eating them and digging up newly planted rare and expensive palms annoying me to almost a nervous wreck as the wife was constantly feeding them someone had to go the wife or the turkeys I choose the turkeys let’s just say possum traps and a nice nature reserve have saved my garden and my relationship also my plant collection and stag ferns I could have gotten you hundreds for free were I work by the hundreds growing on the macadamia trees but when I see scrub turkeys now I start to shake and sweat with fearful anxiety 

[Tyrone]

I didn’t realise the brush turkeys were so destructive. They are the iconic eastern states rainforest bird. Here I get heaps of ducks. At this time of year there are families with lots of ducklings. Luckily they do no damage. 

[peachy]

6 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

I didn’t realise the brush turkeys were so destructive. They are the iconic eastern states rainforest bird. Here I get heaps of ducks. At this time of year there are families with lots of ducklings. Luckily they do no damage. 

They are horrible things Tyrone. A tiny garden like mine would be gone in a couple of hours. Luckily I have high fences all the way around and live on a busy intersection so they stay close to the scrubland along the Bremer River, but the poor people on the river side of the road get  lot of damage. I chase out any Ibis that get in here, flithy things do massive poops and always on the concrete areas and Indian Mynahs get hunted out too. Nasty things pick on the tiny native Double Bar Finches that live here. Recently I saw my first white wing Chough. I thought it was a crow picking on the finches and went to chase it away. It turned and looked at me with those glowing red eyes. I nearly died of fright, thought Old Nick had come to get me.

Peachy

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7 hours ago, peachy said:

They are horrible things Tyrone. A tiny garden like mine would be gone in a couple of hours. Luckily I have high fences all the way around and live on a busy intersection so they stay close to the scrubland along the Bremer River, but the poor people on the river side of the road get  lot of damage. I chase out any Ibis that get in here, flithy things do massive poops and always on the concrete areas and Indian Mynahs get hunted out too. Nasty things pick on the tiny native Double Bar Finches that live here. Recently I saw my first white wing Chough. I thought it was a crow picking on the finches and went to chase it away. It turned and looked at me with those glowing red eyes. I nearly died of fright, thought Old Nick had come to get me.

Peachy

Destructive for sure they also rake up every leaf in radius of vast proportions (almost half my garden) for making a nest the size of a football field to lay eggs in they are number one garden enemy in my scope iam with you peachy