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Australian National Botanic Gardens
By: Michael Fox Bright yellow Golden Everlastings provide a cheerful welcome to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (Canberra). I particularly like ANBG because it recreates habitats ranging from rainforest gullies to central Australian desert, to present a wide variety of Australian plant … Continue reading
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Tagged Aneilema acuminatum Native Wandering Jew, Austral Storks Bill Pelargonium australe, Australian Bluebells Wahlenbergia stricta, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Painted Lady, Banana Bush Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Golden Everlastings Xerochrysum viscosum, Living Mulch
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Cooee Motel: a surprise in country NSW
By: Michael Fox Travelling to Canberra over Easter and planning to visit the Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, we needed somewhere to stay overnight. We found Cooee Motel, a real gem in the small country town of Gilgandra, three hundred and thirty kilometres … Continue reading
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Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, Australian King-Parrots Alisterus scapularis, Australian Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi, Casuarina, Cooee Motel, Cypress, Gilgandra, Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae, nest hollows, Tony and Lois Smolders, Western Plains Zoo, Western Rosella Platycercus icterotis
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Bushcare nursery thriving in backyard
By: Michael Fox Greg Tasney’s passion for the environment and his generosity means that he has propagated more 1,000 plants for use in restoration of his Rocky Waterholes Bushcare site. Walking round garden I was amazed by the diversity of … Continue reading
Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link
Tagged Bush food, Climbing Maidenhair Fern Lygodium microphyllum, Creek Mat-rush, Eastern Water Skinks Eulamprus quoyii, Figbirds Sphecotheres vieilloti, Gardening Australia, Green Mat-rush Lomandra hystrix, Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa, Joseph's Coat Moth Agarista agricola, Kangaroo Vine, Lemon-scented Myrtle Backhousia citriodora, Native Mulberry Pipturus argenteus, Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus, Pipturus argenteus Native Mulberry, Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine Pararistolochia praevenosa, Rocky Waterholes Bushcare, Silver Plectranthus Plectranthus argentatus, Small-leaved Lilly Pilly Syzygium luehmannii, Small-leaved Abutilon Abutilon oxycarpum, Speckled Line-blue Catopyrops florinda, Splendid Ochre butterfly Trapezites symmomus, Swamp Banksia Banksia robur, Sweet Morinda Gynochthodes jasminoides (previously: Morinda jasminoides), Syzygium australe Creek Satinash, Varied Eggfly Hypolimnas bolina, Water Vine Cissus antarctica, Yellow Admiral Vanessa itea
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Water Plants for Containers
Water Plants for Containers If you have been inspired by Rob Lucas and his frog ponds download the excellent guide to water plants for small frog ponds from Native Plants Sunshine Coast.
Posted in Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor
Tagged frog pond, Native Plants Sunshine Coast, Water plants
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Urban wildlife oasis
By: Michael Fox Walking into Rob Lucas’ Pollinator Link® garden is like walking into an oasis for wildlife. Shady and cool it is also an oasis calm for people. Gardens like Rob’s, support the volunteer restoration work of groups like Melrose Park … Continue reading
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Tagged beneficial insects, Blue-banded Bees Amegilla sp., Buzz pollination, Community Nursery, Dome Tent Spiders Cyrtophora moluccensis, dragonfly, frog pond, Melrose Park Bushcare, solitary bees, Stingless Native Bees Tetragonula sp., tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides), Tusked Frog Adelotus brevis, Water Snowflake Nymphoides indica, Wax Flower Vine Hoya australis
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Coorparoo Urban Forest
By: Michael Fox Greg Neill’s Pollinator Link garden is an urban forest nestled on the edge of one of the appropriately named Coorparoo Finger Gullies. Greg’s garden has: Water provided with birdbaths and frog pond, Food, like the Red-fruited Palm-lily Cordyline … Continue reading
Posted in Bushfood, Pollinator Link, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlas of Living Australia, Bordered Rustic Cupha prosope, Bowerbird, Common Crow Euploea core, Creek Lily Crinum pedunculatum, Fiery Skimmer Dragonfly Orthetrum villosovittatum, Finger Lime Citrus australasica, frog pond, Giant Spear Lily Doryanthes palmeri, Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae, Little Kurrajong Brachychiton bidwillii, Pink-flowered Doughwood Melicope elleryana, Rainbow Lorikeets Trichoglossus haematodus, Red-fruited Palm-lily Cordyline rubra, Scented Daphne Phaleria clerodendron, Stingless Native Bees Tetragonula sp., Wattle Blue Theclinesthes miskini
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Fourteen months to wildlife haven
By: Michael Fox Allison’s garden is a great example of a habitat haven created for wildlife and people. A typical suburban two-dimensional grass and dirt garden converted to a thriving wildlife habitat in just fourteen months. All without losing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Backyard Bee Home, Bleating Tree Frogs Litoria dentata, brids, Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula, butterflies bees, Cadaghi Corymbia torelliana, Climbing Guinea Flower Hibbertia scandens, Common Crow Euploea core, Fairy Wrens., Finger Lime Citrus australasica, Food for wildlife, frog pond, Green Tree Frogs Litoria caerulea, hoverflies, Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea, nest box, Orange Caterpillar Parasite Wasp, Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus, Pacific Blue Eyes Pseudomugil signifer, Puddling Place, Shelter for wildlife, Stingless Bees Tetragonula sp., Sun Parasol Giant Pink Mandevilla hybrid, water for wildlife
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