Wendy's Secret Garden

Near our hotel in North Sydney, and on our walk to the ferry wharf, is the wonderful Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden. Wendy and her artist husband Brett lived in the house at 1 Walker St, North Sydney shown in extra 1 (the house with the turret). After the deaths of Brett and their daughter Arkie, Wendy poured her energy into converting an area of derelict land near the house into a marvellous garden. The story is told in this Wikipedia article. It is my favourite kind of garden - thickly planted, to the point of being 'jungly'. 

The green-trunked bottle-shaped trees in the main photo are Queensland Bottle Trees, Brachychiton rupestris.

Wendy's Garden has become the home of many Brush Turkeys. One is shown in extra 2. They build mounds of decomposing leaf litter to incubate their eggs. This one is moving a heap of litter across a walking path in the Wendy's Garden to create such a mound.