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Carica papaya

This is a dark orange fleshy variety and delicous. Only problem is: the fruitbats like them too, so it is a race to see who gets one first!

Marguerite

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By Marguerite

Uploaded on 3 Jul, 2008

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Irish

3 Jul, 2008

what kind of wildlife do you get in your garden?

Marguerite

3 Jul, 2008

Do you know something? I miss my wildlife. I only get lots of birds, various sizes as I have a lot of native trees. But they also go for the heliconia flowers to get nectar. When I lived in Darwin we had lots of wildlife like reptiles, bandicoots, pythons, possums and others. Here, I am sure the cane toad has destroyed most of them. I do however get bandicoots, they are small marsupials, who love digging in the garden beds and even in the lawn. But they say they are good for the garden, as they dig up the soil. We have now all cane toad fences around the bottom of the garden fence, so they cannot come in. The vine on the left on the fence is the passiflora.

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