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Photos - Secrets - Gardens (continued)


Old Guildford

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Our Old Guildford garden is growing nicely, dear. Pity we can’t see out the windows now though.


Petersham

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Petersham's Croydon Street Safari trivia quiz:
(1) Do tigers have striped fur, striped skin or striped fur and skin?
(2) Has the tiger population in Africa's wilderness decreased, increased or stayed much the same in the past 50 years?
(3) For how long to tigers and lions sleep each 24 hours?
(4) At what speed should you run to escape from a lion?
Follow this safety trail to the last page of the garden section to the answers refuge.


Plumpton

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Plumpton's plant-populated portico


Port Hacking

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The suburb Port Hacking is on Port Hacking. (This web-site is just loaded with information.) It has lavish jungle gardens, like this one in Shiprock Road. Lavish jungle gardens are no big deal, except this one is on a house roof.


Prairiewood

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Free range hens in Telford Place, Prairiewood.
But prairie/wood? That’s as possible as expensively cheap.


Regents Park

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The railway embankment at Dawes Avenue, Regents Park, was a rubbish tip - an awful eyesore. Look what happened when the rail authorities let 77-year-old Olga loose. Her miraculous transformation won four first-prizes in garden competitions.


Riverview

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Some day you must go to the end of Coonah Parade, Riverview, to see St Ignatius College's equivalent of the Amazon jungle.


Riverview

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Their motto, roughly translated from the Latin (Quantum potes tantum aude), is:
                                                                              Quite a forest, tantamount to Amazon


Russell Lea

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It's bird bath time in Atkins Avenue, Russell Lea.


Sadleir

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The pink wash basin in Gabo Crescent, Sadleir, will work even better when water is connected.


South Granville

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In Bennett Street, South Granville, a garden packed with everything (also see below).


South Granville

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Bennett Street’s Wendy and Stuart present Alan with a sample of their plethora of home-grown vegetables.


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