The raingarden‘s vine has provided us with great shade from our horrible, hot summer, and come March, it has provided us with a bumper crop of grapes that we have struggled to keep up with. As we reach the end of the season, the local lorikeets have discovered them.
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They are such welcome visitors to our urban retreat that I haven’t had the heart to shoo them on. They’ve made a mess of the decking, as they eat less than half of the grapes that they pick, but they have won our hearts…