One morning in 2000, I came out and every single seedling I’d planted the day before had been dug up. It was the beginning of the end for a style of gardening that had served me very well for over a decade.
I plant callistemon and grevillias ostensibly as a permaculture strategy to encourage insectivorous birds and insects, but like most “sensible” garden strategies, it has some lovely side benefits.
A wallaby got into the garden last night, and demolished my newly planted sweet potato patch. I spent my whole mowing session this morning devising recipes for wallaby – Turkish wallaby stew, marinated baked wallaby, wallaby kebabs….