Aug 12, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
Continuing a theme, I thought I’d explore another hardy salt bush ground cover. This one is my favourite, Ruby Saltbush, Enchylaena tomentosa. The second or species name, tomentosa, refers to the somewhat soft or woolly hairs on the foliage when seen up close. The...
Aug 1, 2022 | Articles, Garden, Uncategorized
Saltbush groundcovers – 2 handy plants for habitat and bushfood gardens Creeping and Nodding Saltbushes are two plants indigenous to Victoria that pop up around farms and bushland, self seeded by birds and small animals that eat the fruit. Both are valuable plants in...
Apr 5, 2022 | Articles, Garden, Uncategorized
Truly the best native fruiting plants of arid areas of Victoria, SA and NSW, the Quandong, or Native Peach, Santalum acuminatum, is rarely seen today. A small, slightly weeping tree, with narrow grey-green leaves, they are parasitic plants, so are not simple plants to...
Apr 5, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
There are so many interesting and colourful bugs in our gardens and in our countryside, but it’s hard to know when they are something to be appreciated or feared. I know when I find a cluster of beetles or unknown insects in my garden, I am usually a bit suspicious,...
Mar 1, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
Those of you who know me and my garden will be well aware of how much I love avocados and it would be easy to think that the first time they planted these that they magically and quickly produced, however this was certainly not the case. It took many years of trial...
Feb 8, 2022 | Articles, Garden
Surely that’s not a question you think? Mulching is such an accepted practice in modern gardening, that querying this is surely sacrilegious! Gardening habits, like others in our lives, develop over time as society does. Gardening articles and texts are often...
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