Garden Tour - Keith

Garden Tour - Keith


Bonny Hills, NSW. Australia.

This has been a long  time coming this Garden Tour. So many things have been happening that I have had very little time or motivation for writing blogs - even to comment has been a chore at times, such has been the distractions of things personal at the moment. Anyway here are seven photographs as a tour of my garden area together with and attached album of further photos for you to browse through and see what else there is to find here.
CLICK HERE FOR ATTACHED ALBUM



I live in NSW on the coast about 370km or 300 mile north of Sydney. Here the daytime temperature ranges between 12c and 45c from winter to summer but those extremes  are never fro prolonged periods. Although not full;y sub tropical, the plants from the tropical north flourish here and this garden is crammed with a good selection. There are numerous palms, tree ferns, staghorns, birdsnest ferns, bamboo, birds of Paradise, bromiliads, etc, etc.... These photos and ATTACHED ALBUM will give you a good idea of the variety.

These are Photographs of the garden area in general - mainly snapshots to give a general idea of the feel and outlay of the garden. I did this blog this way rather than studies on individual features and plants which I will create in another blog which I hope to complete and present fairly soon. This Garden attracts many colourful birds and creatures of all sorts and is a cool oasis well shaded from the heat and intense Australian sun. Winter does tend to be a lot cooler because of the amount of shade so on colder days I seek out the sunny spots and follow them around  during the day as the sun moves across the sky. So please enjoy these photos and I will let them do the talking for me. Please not here that my Housemate Vera does most of the tending to this garden whereas  I had  more input in creating the newer landscape design and layout  and initial hard labour in establishing them since Vera purchased the house about 10 years ago. The gardens were quite well established already  with the previous owner having collected many of the palms and tropical plants from a tour he and his wife did of the northern regions of the continent. My main interest is in the vegetable garden where I am much more at home. See my earlier Blogs for these.