Author Archives: Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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Mt Gravatt Environment Group is restoring a unique piece of Australain native bushland only ten minutes from Brisbane CBD.

Planting Habitat Tripod Crosby Road Bushcare

Posted on 30/05/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I joined the Crosby Road Bushcare team last Saturday to plant up the Habitat Tripod with vines and shrubs that will create safe habitat for small birds like Fairy Wrens to nest. Vines and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link | Tagged Butterfly, Climbing Guinea Flower Hibbertia scandens, Common Grass-blue Zizina labradus, Creeping Boobialla Myoporum parvifolium, Crosby Road Bushcare, Fairy Wrens., Great Carpenter Bees genus Xylocopa, Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus, Habitat Tripod, native bee, Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea, Plant Local to Feed Locals | 1 Comment

Plant Local to Feed Locals

Posted on 21/05/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I just read an interesting article in Canadian Geographic: Inside the mysterious decline of Earth’s insects Why are insects important? If we want to bring beautiful birds like the Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti back to our urban gardens we need … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, Black-headed Skimmer Dragonfly Crocothemis nigrifrons, Insects, Plant Local to Feed Locals, Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti | 2 Comments

Give Mum Birds, Butterflies and Bees

Posted on 26/04/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Order your Pollinator Link Mother’s Day Gift Pack today. Pack includes: Pollinator Link® garden certification Pollinator Link® fence sign and Blue-banded Bee on Google maps Gardman Easyclean Cat-safe Birdbath The Brisbane Bird Challenge Game: create a family challenge Pollinator Link® … Continue reading →

Posted in B4C Bulimba Creek Catchement Coordinating Committee, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Brisbane Bird Challenge Game, Gardman Birdbath, Mothers Day, Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus | Leave a comment

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Posted on 14/04/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 →

Posted in Pollinator Link | 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 | Leave a comment

Cooee Motel: a surprise in country NSW

Posted on 11/04/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 →

Posted in Wildlife Corridor | 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 | 4 Comments

Bushcare nursery thriving in backyard

Posted on 19/02/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 | Leave a comment

Water Plants for Containers

Posted on 17/02/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 | Leave a comment

Urban wildlife oasis

Posted on 14/02/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 →

Posted in Pollinator Link | 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 | 1 Comment

Coorparoo Urban Forest

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 | 2 Comments

Fourteen months to wildlife haven

Posted on 29/01/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 →