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About me

I live in North Queensland, Australia, on a 3 acre property that is situated on the side on a rocky hill. There is a little poor quality soil on the site - but there's mostly rock. Because we live on the side of a hill most water drains off very quickly.

The plants have to be quite drought, heat and humidity hardy. We do not get much rain during the year here - annual rainfall is around 1000mm (falling mostly during the 'wet season' Nov-Apr) in a very good year ... most years it's more like 500mm. We live in the 'dry tropics' and rain is very much a 'hit and miss' affair.

Daytime temperatures range between 18 degrees C in the winter to over 31 degrees C in summer. We get very high levels of humidity during our summer.

Beside the garden beds around the long driveway on the property, I have a courtyard garden where I grow my potted plants and plants that need some shelter from the hot midday/afternoon sun and a greenhouse/nursery which is much more sheltered and full of ferns and plants such as impatiens/coleus/begonias/lillies.

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