Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #65, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Tropicbreeze reporting for duty, suh! What happened was I had to go away for a couple of days to work related meetings. Okay, probably just as bad as an alien abduction, LOL. But they've let me go now so I'm back.

The croc's most probably gone back to the creek. I did 4 nights of spotlight searches of the dam and swamp. A friend who lives along the main river says it's probably the same one that is often seen near his place. He says it's used to people, but I know they don't become "pets".

Looks like 3 of the large Coconut palms copped the lightning. The brown stain on the trunks was probably boiling juices coming out. Fronds have kept falling off the trees and I'd say they're dead. The big Philo is only partly cooked, there seem to be a few points where new shoots are emerging. Mainly on the side of the tree they're on that was facing away from the blast. The smaller Coconut that hadn't developed a trunk yet is also dead, it's heart was cooked. At least in the wet season, what's going to recover will recover quickly.

My Cat's Whiskers is flowering away nicely at the moment.