This bird was amazing in both beauty and voice. Yet strangely out of a flock of near 10 this bird did not seem unsettled  by my camera. Instead sat proudly enjoy the last few nuts on our Liquidambar. Maybe the last feast for quite a few months.

Cockatoos Final Winter Feast On Liquidambar Nuts

Cockatoo Liquidambar Tree

Late autumn day with the Yellow Crested Cockatoo resting just after feeding on the fruits of our Liquidambar tree.

One mans journey to discover and learn about a Liquidambar Styraciflua tree that has dominated his garden for some 20+ years.

Liquidambar Styraciflua or My American SweetGum Tree

At times I must confess I “hate that tree” … yet at other times … I love the enjoyment it has brought me, the canopy of shade in summer and that rich ever changing foliage through out the rest of the year. The late autumn-early winter fruit it delivers although near useless to humans attracts a constant flow of hungry cacophonous flocks of native Australian cockatoos and parrots.

This is my path to fully understand the very Liquidambar tree that totally controls my garden landscape. Every minute I glance out of my window, I cant help but escape the presence of this magestic yet ever changing Liquidambar – Sweetgum.

My goals with this blog are very simple – Fundamentally to learn and research more about Liquidambar tress … where they originated from, where to grow them, how to nurture them for the best results, how to maximise their potential and minimise their downside.

My aim is to evolve this project to become a pictorial blog, a whole complete blog dedicated to understanding, researching and ultimately living beside and with one tree.

Hopefully, you will join us over the upcoming months and from the photographs I hope to provide you will get an understanding … The Liuqidambar – Sweatgum is no ordinary tree. There is something special, something different about Liuqidambar – Sweatgum trees.

They can & do take on a unique personality all of their own.