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The need for seed

6. March 2010

WE OFTEN want a wider range of plants in our gardens and trees in our landscapes. Availability usually depends on the ability of nurseries to propagate as many species as possible, or to buy what they need from elsewhere. Community nurseries concentrate on species in their own regions, usually to meet the needs of those [...]

What’s Flowering Now?

6. March 2010

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Medinilla (magnifica) - common name rose grape Melastomataceae; The Tibouchina family This is a large genus of over 150 species of herbaceous shrubs, some of which are vine like and epiphylic. They are naturally occuring from tropical Africa to southern Asia to the South Pacific. Medinilla magnifica is native to the Philippines, growing both terrestrially and as [...]

In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

6. March 2010

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Are You Nuts? Did you get to nibble on a bunya nut or two this year? These delicious nuts are a great bonus to our diet and potentially free if you have one on yours or a friends block. Free food is always great and food that literally falls from the sky is even better – but [...]

What’s Flowering Now?

12. January 2010

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Peltophorum pterocarpum (Yellow flame) From a small genus of about 15 species the Peltophorum is indigenous to a wide area of tropical Asia from Srilanka through Malaysia, Philipines to northern Australia. The tree has a dense crown of ferny foliage atop a massive grey trunk. It grows to a height of over 15m in an [...]

Water matters …

12. January 2010

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by Barung Landcare At last it has rained, but whether we rely on tanks or town supplies, water is often a scarce and precious resource. There may be none to spare for watering young trees so it’s a good time to find out which are the true survivors. These become the key species in any future [...]

In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

12. January 2010

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The Long Dry is Over 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 [...]

Garrey … Enlightened by his Garden

12. January 2010

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Garrey Foulkes confesses to being a ‘child of the 60s’ - the generation that switched itself off from the materialist treadmill and on to an alternate lifestyle that embraced vegetarianism, new-age meditation techniques, Bob Dylan and, in Garrey’s case, Buddhism. Garrey’s attachment to Buddhist philosophy stayed with him, and today he has created a unique place in Australia’s largest Buddhist community and learning centre – Chenrezig Institute, close to Eudlo on the [...]

In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

2. December 2009

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Maligned mistletoe Mention mistletoe to some folk and they will cross themselves, produce wooden stakes, silver bullets, cloves of garlic and sprinkle holy water about liberally. The thought of a plant drawing on the bodily fluids of another plant for its survival conjures up images of herbaceous vampires sucking the life out of our trees. And [...]

What’s Flowering Now?

2. December 2009

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Thaleropia Queenslandica (or Metrosideros Queenslandica) Endemic to North East Queensland this small tree grows to about 6m in height. It is evergreen and upright in habit with new growth being apricot/red on stems. Leaves are shiney dark green on top and paler below. Flowering in late October to December, a spectacular display of yellow to orange [...]

Montville Macadamery

11. November 2009

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Garden with a story THE AUSTRALIAN Open Garden Scheme generates great interest across the Range with some stunning gardens open for public inspection. However not every garden has the sense of history which surrounds the home once owned by novelist Eleanor Dark. Grant and Marlene Mayfield came to Montville Macadamery in May [...]

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