A City Permaculture Garden 
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a house in the city centre of Townsville, Queensland, Australia
In Townsville we lived in a house on a city block of 540m2. Even though it was right in the very centre of a city with 150,000 inhabitants, the wildlife in our garden was amazing: possums, fruit bats, large goannas, snakes, lizards, tropical birds and much more.
In this old part of Townsville many houses are perched on hill sides.
View from our verandah over Ross Creek, the ocean in the background.
The clocktower in the back belongs to Townsville's old General Post Office. 
 
 
When we moved to Townsville our garden was just a wilderness consisting of large noxious weeds. We had to start from scratch.
We removed all plants, only two large native trees were left. Our new Permaculture design included:
  • several tropical fruit trees, partly in large pots
  • herb garden
  • bamboo
  • water-chestnuts in a small pond
  • vegetable patches 
  • chickens
Layout of the City Permaculture Garden
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A description of the main features of Permaculture gardens can be found here: A Permaculture garden in the dusty Outback
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