Hmm, a new thread title. Will still need to retain the idea of a club/quiche/association.
I was taken by the tropical garden in GW, and pleased I'd got so much of it right. My tropical bit of the garden runs down the side of the house and is a raised bed, about 4 feet wide, narrowing to 1 foot over a length of about 12 feet. The shade is provided by next door's many trees, and two coco palms in the bed,which sound better than they look as it being so narrow you can't see the leaves.
I was 
at the lovely tree ferns, but there's a reason you see so many bundled up dead on nature strips, and that's the water they need. They only do well in Melbourne with a drip water feeder into the crown. Still, I did tick off on heuchera, cordyline Australia, and aspidistra.
. The chap was right about how soothing it is, though ours is too narrow to sit in we can see it all year round thanks to the the floor-to-ceiling windows which run the length of the room looking on to the side passage.
Today, Sunday we're off to the Diggers' Harvest Festival, where there'll be lots of heirloom veggies for an arm and leg, so we'll stop off at Frankston Market where very common indeed veggies will be cheap as chips. Last week we harvested some tiny aubergines that were the creamiest, sweetest I've ever eaten.