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Hypo_Mix

Hypo_Mix's Western Basalt Plains Indigenous garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Clay I'm Organic!

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  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    Welcome to folia!! It must be because gardening in your area is just taking off, but there has been a large influx of people from Melbourne and other areas of south Australia especially!! Just within the last month! There is actually a group that is just for your area.

    If you need any help getting set up, ask a folian, or go to the Help group and post a question! Someone will most assuredly have an answer for you. :)

    Happy Gardening!!

    Posted on 29 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • Hypo_Mix

    Hypo_Mix wrote:

    Thanks TropicanaRoses,

    i came across the web site by accident in google.com.au so maybe folia has just risen to the front page of results when searching for plant info in google Australia. if that’s the case Australian numbers will now rapidly rise (and most will be in south east Australia as that is where almost all of Australia’s population is :P)

    Posted on 29 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    Really? What is the reason for that? (The southern Australian population vs. anywhere else Australia?)

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • Hypo_Mix

    Hypo_Mix wrote:

    well about 70% of Australia is about the same as your Death Valley (apx..i cant back that up :P).

    the only areas that can be reliably irrigated are in the murry-darling basin which stretches from southern Queensland (the city of Brisbane) to eastern South Australia (Adelaide). population centres have built up around this area with the biggest cities being Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra. Those cities make up about 50% of Australians population and south east Australia about 70%. (that was an educated guess).

    basically you cant grow a garden unless you are with in 100km of the coast or a river and there aint many major rivers here.

    ahh love a sunburnt country a land of drought and flooding rains.

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    So the desert part is called the Outback, right? I did not realize that it covered that much area!!

    My hubby has this very little joke that he likes to tell. He has a very dry sense of humor, and most of his humor is eye-rolling humor. (too many humors?) :D He says Australians talk about the Outback. If it is the outback, what is it outback of? :) Sorry. Couldn’t help it. :)

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • Hypo_Mix

    Hypo_Mix wrote:

    duh,

    Back o’Bourke

    (yes that is a real expression :P)
    Etymology

    • from the town of Bourke in western New South Wales, Australia.
      Noun
      back o’ Bourke
      1. (Australian, informal) An extremely remote place or region.

    http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=bourke&ie=UTF8&z=8&iwloc=A

    yeah the desert is ‘the outback’
    Areas between the city and the outback are ‘rural’ or ‘the country’
    Areas of vegetation in rural areas are “the bush” (or scrub)
    Bourke is the last rural town before the outback in NSW (been there!).

    …and as you can see Australians also have a dry sense of humour :D

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    Well, I am never certain how I will be taken, especially since I can’t see the face of the person to whom I am speaking, but I sort of have this idea that Australians are sort of laid back people with a good sense of humor, and an I don’t care what you think of me, I will speak my mind attitude, sort of like many Americans. Now I know that I am on dangerous ground because I lot of countries do not like to be “likened” to Americans, but I have to say that of any country that I could visit, Australia is one of the ones that I am the most interested in, for many reasons, but one of the biggest ones is that I think that aside from not understanding some of the slang, I would feel more at home there than any other place away from home. :) I hope that this was taken as a national compliment and not an insult. :D

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • Hypo_Mix

    Hypo_Mix wrote:

    Australia’s very smiler to Canada from what I hear (well we are both part of the commonwealth) or possibly Los Angeles or a really small New York (mind you i have never been there)

    laid back with a good sense of humour is probably true from what i hear (had to judge from internal)
    “I don’t care what you think of me, I will speak my mind attitude”: not so much, we inherited a lot of the British stiff upper-lip.

    USA fascinates me its such a country of extremes and contradictions which some how works.

    oh and no worries bout the slang you’ll pick it up Sheila.

    Posted on 30 Sep 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    We were reading about some of the differences between Aussies and Americanos that a foreign exchange student from Australia wrote. It was entitled something like this: American Words and Phrases That Could Get You in Trouble in Australia. She then goes on to tell about how some of our words mean something entirely different in Australia. I was fascinated. Totally harmless words here have bad connotations there. :) A greyhound bus here is not the same thing as a greyhound bus there.

    We even talked about the fact that we should have enough this tax return that we could move to Australia if we wanted to, we just would not have enough to buy or rent a house, and would have no immediate job. :)

    Posted on 01 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • Hypo_Mix

    Hypo_Mix wrote:

    like wise in summer I would put on thongs on my feet :).

    Posted on 01 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    Yep, that was one of the things that we read. :D But in all fairness, my grandma, who had never been out of the country, also called the kind for your feet thongs. :)

    Posted on 02 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)

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