A walk through The Rainforest (Dad's Garden)

Hello and welcome.

Two weeks ago I showed you my front garden, today we will go and have a look 

down at the Rain forest garden....Other wise known as Dad's garden...

My garden is rather large over 1 acre.

So each area is named, mostly so when I say I'm going out to the garden the kids know where I am.

There is

 The Front Garden,

Dad's Garden,

Back Garden

Vege Garden

The Old Dairy Garden

Food forest

Yep that about covers it.

Did I mention I have a large garden.

Below is looking back at the house and front garden.

I have been forbidden to turn this bit of yard into a garden as this is where 

all the football, cricket etc is played.

Behind the hedge is the pool.

Now that I have totally confused you come in and have a look

through the rain forest.

The palm trees were planted 19 years ago, and I am still planting

plants under neath, they are so tall now and under neath looks a bit bare

in some areas.

I love my old wagon here though really adds some interest.

This is the pond and that is the back shed and fence in the background' the pond catches all the run off water that goes through here. We have so many goldfish they just keep breading down here.

You can see how tall the palms are, and areas that need replanting.

Lets head down this path to the very back fence and the 

red gate at the end. Mind your head on the mulberry tree here.

The bananas are doing well down here and we have 3 bunches growing.

I also have flowers on my coffee bush for the first time.

 The red gate leads into the chook pen, the girls thought they were getting

feed again. We have 18 chooks at the moment.

This is looking back to the wagon and pond.

I love this garden and the grandchildren are at the age now were they 

run through the forest as they call it and play.

These steps lead up to The Old Dairy, but we will leave this garden for another time.

This is the other side of the steps and heading back up to the house.

You can see there is plenty under cover planting here.

Lot of ferns and birds nests in this area,

 Well we are out of the rain forest and at the pool house.

Ahead is the back garden, we will do that another day I think.

Lucky I love gardening....

I must admit this garden looks after itself with the great micro climate down here.

I hope you enjoyed your walk.

Have a great week.

Mandy

Bush Walking

I have been bush walking this morning.......





Our craft ladies decided that we would go for a walk today in one of our ladies property. They set this rain forest area up about 10 years ago as a walking track.......WOW........ I never realized how wonderful this place is. There are LARGE king orchids every where, I have never seen them so big.

Here are some of us standing in a 'Morton bay fig' the root system on this tree goes for about 150 meters along the creek bank. We counted about 10 of these monster trees on our walk which took as about 2 1/2 hours.

This one would have made a good home for us if we got lost.........

We found these snail shells every where on the track. I put one on this mossy rock it looks fake it is so perfect, there where 100s of these.

The stag horns and elk horns are so big. It is amazing that this walk is only a 10 minute drive from my house and I have never been there. I some times think think that we go away on holidays and don't take the time to look around the community where we live.

The birds nest ferns were growing on rocks, trees and in the ground.
Neville has had a botanist out to this rain forest and he identified 150 different types off plants. I wonder what a bird watcher would find? As there was many different birds.

here is a king orchid growing on a rock...

This pretty little flower was growing all through the creek bed no one new the name of it. I saw three different types of salvias in the creek as well. They may have been washed down in the water or birds dropping seeds.

The vines were every where it was a great walk and i will being going again and taking others with me. This is the only original rain forest left in this area. Their has never been a fire through there, so it was easy to see what our land would have looked like 200 hundred years ago.

May be there is some thing in the area where you live that you have never seen? I encourage you to go and have a look it is a part of your community..........

MANDY