The raucous call of the sulphur-crested cockatoo is one of the most familiar sounds of an Australian summer – usually expressed in the cacophony of a fast-moving, white-winged flock.
But sculptured versions didn’t disturb the pleasure, or the passion, on exhibition in Carlton at Melbourne’s International Flower and Garden Show, which closed on Sunday.
Celebrating the great outdoors and Aussie way of life, the cockies on show were included as part of the display put up by Villawood Properties, an estate developer already making its mark at Mickleham and soon to do so at Sunbury.
Sculpted by Folko Cooper, the cockies ‘fly off’ this week for new perches at Villawood’s Redstone Hill Road estate on the Sunbury-Bulla Road, where plans are out for about 2000 new home sites.
The company’s Trillium estate on Mount Ridley Road, Mickleham, has 75 new homes already built and about 150 more are planned this year.
Villawood estimates it has enough land in the Sunbury area to build about 4300 new dwellings.
