Allo! Allo! from France...

Hi everybody! We live in S-W France in Quercy, which means "Land of Oak Trees" - (latin quercus = oak tree, as I'm sure you know!). We have our own local special subspecies of green tree frog - the "hyla arborea" I chose as a name. It seemed a good name since - it is said - I look like a bullfrog with indigestion on my passport photie! Soil is clay with rocks in. Too wet and it sticks to everything, too dry and you need a sledgehammer! But the wine's good...!!!

 

Hello Hyla-arborea and welcome to GC

 

Hi Hyla-arborea welcome to gc

 

Welcome H-A! Think you're the third member from SW France now - so you can have a good moan together abot the soil..... there's Mona Lisa, and another relatively new person, whose name I can't at the moment recollect.....

 

Hi Hyla-arborea and welcome

 

Ola Hyla-arborea from Portugal. I live a place called Carrasqueira, which means "place of the Holm tree", which of course in an oak tree! It is also the tree they hung people from!

Welcome to GC and I hope you enjoy it ... it's a great time waster ...

 

Hi Hyla, which sub species? I only know of Meridionalis and Sarda (Stripeless and Sardinian).
Welcome to GC.

 

Hi Strongylodon!
Our subsp. is listed in my local herpetology guide as a full species, I've just discovered - h. meridionalis - though my UK guide calls it a subsp.! Dunno who's right. It has a short stripe not a full-length one! (If you'd like a picie I can mail you one...!)
Thanks for the welcome message!

 

Thank you for all these lovely messages...wow! A really nice suprise!

 

But hey, we are a real friendly lot. Pull up a chair and enjoy :D

 

Hi Hyla-arborea welcome to GC ,I know you will enjoy all the advice and witty remarks the members think up. Jazz

:D

 

Thanks, jazz!
I've just leaned how to post piccies, so perhaps I should start with this... It's the REAL "hyla arborea" we get in our garden. I nicked its scientific name as my username. Some people (who may yet get writs for slander!) say that's 'cos I look like it!

 

What's the problem with looking like him? He's very handsome! :D

 

A beautiful specimen, I can see he/she has half a stripe. I used to keep them years ago but were too noisy indoors, the fire bellied toads I have now are quieter. :D