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Category Archives: Birds
In Flower Today
Brisbane‘s subtropical winter comes to a happy, floriferous end in mid-August. Today there’s around a hundred different plants flowering, two weeks before Australia’s official first day of spring.
Scrub Turkey Trouble
Question
Hi Jerry,
I have just moved to Byron Bay and have a bush turkey problem. Do you have any clues as to what I should do to get my veggie garden going?
Me and my veggie-head friend in Sydney love your work,
Vicki Continue Reading →
A Blot On The Landscape
In many ways SE Qld is Australia’s garden centre, propagating and supplying landscapers and nurseries throughout SE Australia. Despite this, many good nursery businesses in this region are suffering during the drought. Lost custom and level 5 watering restrictions are putting reputable people out of work, and businesses are closing down.
Imagine you’re a professional nursery grower. You grow good stock and you have a good, established reputation…and you’re managing to do reasonable business. What would be the ultimate turn off for your customers?
Here Comes The Summer
I always loved that song by the Undertones, a track that just has to be played when summer comes…
The Koels are back in town after a long break in Papua New Guinea, busily laying eggs in other birds nests – such tropical cuckoos. Wonder how long it will be before my friend Alan, of New Farm, starts complaining about their incessant overnight calls. There’s a lot around his new pad. Continue Reading →
