In article , Flying Tadpole
wrote:

katysails wrote:

A
consequence of denser housing AND everyone pulling up their fruit
trees.

Why are they doing that???


'Cos they're all trying to be new-age yuppies, and mundane 1950s
items like fruit trees in the back yard are deeply untrendy.

You'll probably be pleased to know that last winter I planted a walnut,
2 cherries, an apple, a pear, nectarine and peach. This winter I'll
plant some blueberries and raspberries and probably some more fruit
tree varieties. Bit cold for citrus but may try anyway.

My Sydney place has a lot of citrus trees and an apple tree, all
planted by us when we moved in nearly 20 years ago. However it's on a
1000m square lot which simply doesn't exist any more. Developers keep
trying to buy the place so they can build 5 villa units on it.

Especailly as new housing is on very small blocks and has very
large houses, hence nowhere to grow such things anyway. never
mind, it'll all sort itself out ain the next 40 years as their
children all terminate early from obesity resulting from the
confined quarters and absence of open space. The australians
posting in this newsgroup range from strongly deviant to
extremely deviant from the suburban norm.

Hey, I'll agree with that! Normality is for Norms.

PDW