more Australia-related questions

[kindkit]

The fic I'm working on has generated a couple more Australia-related questions that google isn't answering:

1) What's a common kind of tree that someone might have in their garden, in the Melbourne area?

2) Is there an endearment that a middle-class man in his early thirties might use to address his wife? He's speaking in an offhand way--thanking her for something minor--rather than in a romantic or highly emotional context. If he were an American he'd say "Thanks, honey," but I don't know if there's an Australian equivalent.


Many thanks and geographically appropriate endearments to anyone who can help!

Comments

[lilacsigil]

What kind of tree? You might have a banskia, a magnolia, a camellia, a wattle tree, a cypress hedge, a lemon tree (pretty common in most suburbs), a nectarine tree... If it's an outer suburb, especially in the Dandenongs, it might have a gum tree.

"Thanks, love" or "Thanks, darling", but probably just "Thanks, [name]".