Sustainable Gardening in our Continually Surprising Climate
You know it’s autumn in subtropical Brisbane because the Black Bat flowers bloom their best.
Conditions have been perfect for plants that can cope with hot, humid, calm, showery conditions.
“Building the garden you want with whatever you’ve got”
Despite the amount of gardening and botanical research carried out by women, their roles and influences in horticulture are not shared in recorded history as equally or as well as the efforts of men.
Most of the seed sold in Australia is imported, harvested from plants farmed overseas.
Productivity is gradually recovering after ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald.
Can’t find genuine cardamom plants, but want its fresh flavour in your cooking? Grow your own.
How does flooding affect a plant? And is there a difference between salt water and fresh water flooding?
Glyphosate-based herbicides are bee-killing global pollutants of groundwater, rivers and surface water. More recently glyphosate has been detected in rain. The latest research reveals that glyphosate damages the beneficial bacteria in the gut of the honeybee, making them prone to to deadly infections. Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees,…
Give me an Australian wasp anytime. The solitary species are so much safer to garden amongst than their vicious ‘social’ European counterpart, Vespula germanica.
For a more sustainable Valentine’s Day, buy your loved one a potted plant. Like love, you can watch your gift grow.
Being eaten alive, from the inside out, is not the kindest death. But it’s ruthlessly efficient.
Jerry Coleby-Williams 