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

tropicbreeze wrote:
Definitely a lot of work Bignonia. Keeps me off the streets. Probably just as well.

I tried a tree fern but we have an ant here (Big Headed Ant, or sometimes called Brown Coastal Ant) which likes them. The ants eat the roots of those and some other ferns. Tree ferns aren't native to here, too hot.

Having bromeliads here doesn't make any difference. I have hundreds of pandanus (P. spiralis) on my property, as well as hundreds of thousands in the area, and they hold water during the wet season like broms. We don't have Dengue Fever here fortunately, but Ross River and Murray Valley Encephalitis are carried by mosquitoes here.

There are quite a few snakes around here but I never worry about them. They move out of the way. I've grown up with lots of snakes around so am used to them. Even the most deadly ones prefer to go about their own business rather than have anything to do with people.

Photo of one of my heliconias.