Tropical Zone Gardening: First tentative steps ..., 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
For a number of years when I first bought this place it was regularly raided by herds of feral pigs. Following weeks or months of hard work the pigs would return and plough everything in - gardens, lawns, everything. The area to the right in this photo was a major target. It was constantly filled with deep mulch and a became a worm metropolis. Pigs love worms.

The Carpentaria accuminata palms have a climbing bamboo growing up them. The short palm on the left is a Dwarf Red Neck. Hard to see in the middle of the picture is my latest "baby", an Arenga hookeriana still in its pot (but planted in that spot last weekend). Next to it on the right are a couple of Panama Hat Palms (which aren't palms though). A few bromeliads just for good measure.