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Rainforest pioneers
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635 days ago
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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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646 days ago
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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 ...