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Without exaggeration, every moment of every day there are birds in my grevillea patch. At work when I look out the window I can see a nesting yellow honeyeater in a Kay Williams grevillea. It’s amazing the life grevilleas bring to a garden. I’m not talking about a forest of plants, just one or two are enough to attract native honey eaters when they are in flower.
Continue reading There’s A Honeyeater In My Orange Marmalade…
Being told you should plant natives sounds a lot like you’re being told to give up junk food and switch to brussels sprouts and bran. It makes you feel like you’ll be going on a garden diet. Lush green foliage and the pretty flowers will be a thing of the past. There will be no more planting of self indulgent cordylines, hibiscus, gardenias or gingers. You’re now restricted to a gardening diet of gumtrees, paperbarks, grasstrees, and if you’re good, a grevillea or two. And you’ll have to tear up your lush green lawn so you can replace it with a nice deep layer of bush mulch with a couple of clumps of prickly Spinifex and a mandatory frog pond.
This article is extracted from the Yuruga Newsletter
Vol 12 No 3 (August 2004).
The focus of this article is for gardeners in tropical Australia.
However, the basic principles apply for throughout Australia
with minor modifications for local conditions.
This article is extracted from Yuruga Newsletter
Vol 10 No 4 (November 2002)
There is something particularly beautiful about deciduous plants.
When they drop all their leaves and expose their bare skeletons to the world, they present an architectural grandeur that adds quite another dimension to the landscape.
This article is extracted from Yuruga Newsletter
Vol 10 No 4 (November 2002)
The sights and sounds of November in a tropical garden …..
…… splashes of brilliant red, black, yellow,
……. and a raucous cacophony of bird sound.
