Elk Horn fern - updated

I bought this elk horn many years ago (nearly 20!), it was lovely with purple dendrobium orchids filling the top of the basket and the elk horn around the base and sides. The orchids died a long time ago and I haven't been able to replace them. The stag died off and I thought it had gone to God, but hadn't thrown it out. After years of this dead looking brown thing there was a lot of rain and it was quite damp. New little rosettes of leaf plates appeared and suddenly it was back from the dead!

I made sure I kept it damp and it's still got little plants appearing. I repotted it (in the wire cage it is in) as the old one had rusted away. I'm so happy I didn't throw it out. I now need to harvest some of these little ones and make a couple of new plants.

and this is a stag horn fern, waiting to go up on the wall (or in/attached to a shady tree):

The stag horn is harder to grow, it is much more sun sensitive than the elk. They are tied to a block of hardwood with pantyhose and attach themselves (same can be done with the elks), I hear it is good to feed them with banana skins (put down between the wooden board and the back of the plant). I have two of these waiting to be hung up, one for me and one for my sister in law. I just need to figure out where and how!

Update:
For Merilyn, some hoya flowering currently - this is the first time this specimen has flowered. And a picture of where the hoya are, getting only morning sun.

I need to mow along the front there but it keeps raining, probably best if I poison that weed there!

Red Flowering Gum

I love these trees. I have one, but it hasn't flowered yet. It's a scrawny, mallee* looking thing. These flowers are quite large, bigger than a US$1 coin in diameter and the leaves on the tree are huge. I'll try to get a photo of the tree from a bit of a distance, there are two together I think. I tried to photograph them yesterday but it was so windy I had to hold the branch, and then after only five photos the camera battery was flat (forgot to check whether it needed charging or not).

(*Mallee is scrubby, low-growing eucalypts. My one has a scrawny trunk and is very low. The leaves are huge... I'll take a pic, but not today... I can't find it in the long grass. Some of the Australian bush is called "mallee scrub", and it's made up of many-trunked, low-growing eucalypts and interesting understory plants.)