JACKIE FRENCH - author

Jackie and Rickie	Jackie and Fudge
The creek	The swimming hole
The house and garden	The front steps
The cottage steps	Barbecue table and water wheel
View from the balcony	The balcony
The house through the trees	Jackie and wombat
Jackie in the corn	Chilacayote melon- a perennial melon that wanders up and over the trees, dropping massive fruit as they ripen. The small ones can be eaten like zuchinnis- if you catch them fast enough.
Fruits	Autumn
Wallaby	A Budhha's hand citron ... yes, its' meant to be that shape! Very fragrant peel and juice.
Eastern rosellas feed from Bryan's home made bird feeder (they can't get their bums onto it so don't feed among their droppings) and eye the calamondins- one of the best 'decoy' fruits I know to keep birds from eating your crops.	Avocadoes fruiting at minus 6C
Tough Eureka lemons...the Meyer lemon is the LEAST cold tolerant of all lemons, not the most! If you want toughness with heat and cold, go for thick skinned citrus, like the Eureka. Ours have survived and fruited in minus 9C as well as 11 months with almost no rain, and months of almost continuous gale force winds, often over 40C and even up to 52C.	Peabrain the lyrebird about to scratch up the garden and attack the dining room window.
The camellia hedge by the creek in winter.	The guest cottage.
The house seen through a grove of mostly 'bush tucker' native fruit trees.	daisies and grevilleas. they didn't grow much in six years of drought, but they didn't die either.
long yellow banana passionfruit, cold tolerant and hardy.	2 metre high spires of blue echiums- birds adore them, so do insects, and they survive with no watering.
house with ice cream bean tree (big beans with marshmallow like edible inner casing), persimmon, apples and cherries in the foreground	a tangle of yellow banksia rose, kiwi fruit and male and female juniper trees, you need male and female to get the berries. Juniper berries are great in marinades, especially with venison, but also make a great sweet sour jelly which will set with almost no sugar.
house with 30 years of solar panels (our roof is a bit like a museum of solar panels, from the earliest to 3 year old models). The bush in front is a thornless Mutablis rose, much nibbled by wallabies at the base.	apple blossom. We have about 130 varieties of apples, and fruit from late November (Irish peach) till early August (Sturmer Pippin- though in very dry years the birds get the very late ones if we don't pick them earlier or net them)
heat tolerant tulips blooming amid oregano and irises	thornless white banksia rose near the house
red salvia in flower	an avocado (fuerte) in full bloom
yellow banksia rose over the wood shed	a tangle of various rambling roses and flowering sages- no pruning, weeding, spraying or watering needed, but still blooms every year
frontsteps, climbing Albertine rose and ripe loquat fruit	Excuse me, but whose garden is this?
smoke bush	bottlebush and ginko tree
smokebush and medlar tree	a tangle of bottle brush and pomegranate flowers
The house is thatta way . . .	Perennial melons
Bounce in the front garden	New Holland honeyeater in winter flowering pokers
tangle of kiwifruit and junipers	Medlars in winter
red chicory	Medlars in winter
garlic chives	Jackie in the garden
banksia	Emily drinking