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December 2010
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under Hope for Habitat
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under Saving the Creek banks
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Saving the Creek banks
Climate Change
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Brush turkey's August blog, featuring climate change
Things that go bump in the night
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under Wildlife Pest Management Plans
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under Gardening, Pest Management Rainforest pioneers
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When it comes to re-establishing rainforest on the range don’t forget the fast growing but short lived pioneers. Pioneers are the “live fast, die young” members of the plant world. They quickly pop up in areas of disturbance, such as when a large tree has fallen and provide the rapid cover and shade.Using pioneers in your revegetation plantings helps you to quickly “capture” a site (i.e. reduce competition from weeds, improve humidity, wind protection and soil improvement). The protection and microclimate created by the pioneers then dramatically improves the growth of your mature phase trees and shrubs, that although slow to start off with, will eventually provide the long term forest cover for your site with some trees living in excess of a thousand years. T...
Bird attracting plants
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In the past, when I’ve worked in retail nurseries, on an almost daily basis we would get a customer request for plants that were good for attracting birds. Unfortunately most people’s exposure to native plants that are good for bringing in our feathered friends is from mainstream Australian native gardening books or TV shows which push the same small list of cultivar grevilleas, bottlebrushes and banksias. These plants are recommended whether you live in Hobart or Darwin, Sydney or Perth - which may be great in making a book marketable nation-wide, but takes little account of the diversity of our big country and its innumerable unique ecosystems – and let’s face it, can get a little boring after a while!Up here on the Range, from Bellthorpe to Maleny and then north ...
Bird attracting plants
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In the past, when I’ve worked in retail nurseries, on an almost daily basis we would get a customer request for plants that were good for attracting birds. Unfortunately most people’s exposure to native plants that are good for bringing in our feathered friends is from mainstream Australian native gardening books or TV shows which push the same small list of cultivar grevilleas, bottlebrushes and banksias. These plants are recommended whether you live in Hobart or Darwin, Sydney or Perth - which may be great in making a book marketable nation-wide, but takes little account of the diversity of our big country and its innumerable unique ecosystems – and let’s face it, can get a little boring after a while!Up here on the Range, from Bellthorpe to Maleny and then north ...
The Long Dry is Over
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758 days ago
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Well as you read this, hopefully the rain has continued beyond the Christmas – New Year break and is filling the creeks and dams again. This may seem rather selfish and rather miserable of me to wish a wet start on 2010, but after the long dry that we ended 2009 on we desperately need a good top up.Its quite likely we could even be in the midst of some severe flooding by the time you read this which would certainly be a contrast to the drought we were suffering a mere few weeks back – but that is Australia, a land of extremes!It’s the extremes of our climate that make the ecosystems of Australia unique. The pattern of life is focused on the conservation of energy. For example the Dingo a recent arrival to the Australian continent of only a few thousand years has already r...