Morning Mix Show Notes 5/12

A Terrifying Tale of When Animals Attack, Chanda from Fairview Gardens is here and chocolate the size of footballs!! 

The Australian Reptile Park near Sydney is missing a koala bear. Their 13 year old koala named Banjo went missing on Monday. Zoo officials are worried because this is Banjo's first winter. He came to the reptile park from the warmer Gold Coast and had lost weight in the move and they're worried he's not going to make it because he's considered elderly by koala bear standards. This is the first theft of its kind in Australia. UPDATE: Banjo the Koala was returned Wednesday afternoon. Someone called the reptile park and said Banjo was in the parking lot. He was found in a garbage can with a crate over the top. He was tired, hungry and dehydrated, but is expected to be OK.

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Most chocolate we eat is some cocoa and a whole bunch of unpronounceable chemicals. Until now. An undiscovered forest of cocoa trees has just been found in Ecuador and they have cocoa fruit the size of FOOTBALLS. WAHOO! Experts say that these newly discovered cocoa fruits are going to change the chocolate industry, but they are rare so we will be seeing better tasting chocolate and better quality chocolate, but we're going to have to pay for it. And, no, Jim. Willy Wonka did NOT discover this forest.

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Master Gardener Chanda of Fairview Gardens came in this morning. She is going to try and breathe some life into Peter K's side yard. Click here for the before pics. If you have questions about your yard, garden or house plants, Chanda is in on The Morning Mix every other Thursday at 8:10 and she has her very own gardening show called MIXed Greens every other Saturday from 8a-9a on Mix 94.9.