The Cats: Evil Weasel

Almost ready for his Vogue photo-shoot, Evil Weasel is heard mumbling "Keith Richards can bite me..." (or something to that effect) as he staggers out of bed early one afternoon...

Still staggering out of bed, he mutters something about his "morning yoga routine" while I go and have my 5th cup of coffee...

Upon returning, we see that he has awakened. "Dude-- check out 'Lion Yawning' " . "Yes yes Zoocater... can we get a wriggle on-- we have a photoshoot!"

And finally-- Mr. Evil Weasel.... yes, this is really the same cat.

Garden Wildlife

Glider eating my roses...
Above and below-- Brush Tailed possums in the trees at the roof edge of the house. They are slightly larger than a house cat. Also- no relation to the American Opossums.

King Parrot saying hello while I was working under the birch tree in the front garden.

Little Glider on the back Deck with me the other night. She is about 1/3 the size of a small-medium sized house cat.

Let the Clean-up Begin!

Setting to work!

After a few hours of both of us working. There is still a great deal to go, but a strong start.

One of the Native Fern Trees being freed from Cape Ivy. This is a Rough Bark Fern Tree.

Apple tree (foreground), Peach Tree (Midground, dark trunk) and Fern Trees.

Below: Serious corm removal of Montbretia. This is a serious bush invader, classified as a Noxious Weed. Each plant can bear a string of corms numbering 14 or more. Each corm is capable of producing another plant. You can see, also, where not only does it literally choke out the soil, but also will infest itself under trees and rot them. The blue bucket was completely full from clearing a square meter.

Current Inhabitants of the Garden of Doom

Above: Partial root system of the Agapanthus (aka: Lily of the Nile and Onion Plant)

Cape Ivy and Wandering Jew (?-- if anyone knows for certain the verigated creeper, please feel free to leave me a note!)

Japanese Honeysuckle wrapping around a sapling trunk.

A Laurel on the right foreground (shiny oval leaves) and other locations, as it is a spreading plant, and even more Cape Ivy.

This is down on Terrace level 4, and some of the wonderful native ferns. There are some of the invasives here, but the goal is to stop them before they choke out the natives, as has happened on the other levels.