I had the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia, and what should greet me on leaving the airport but a stand of Grevillea robusta (Silky Oak), Acacia mearnsii (Black Wattle), a Melaleuca I didn’t recognize and a Eucalyptus species. (Who would have thought I would need Ivan Holliday’s book on Melaleucas in an overseas country?) [...]
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I have just planted three of these plants. They were quite tight in their pots but were making new shoots so I decided to take a chance and put them in as they were. Mine are a yellow-green colour, but you can also get pink, orange, red, yellow or green, and sometimes mixed colours.
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Sometimes you may look at your home garden and then feel like you need to change the appearance and get something that is more natural looking, and that being inclined to mean wild as well. It might be because you saw some as you drove by and the thought of having some natural bloomers in your backyard crossed your mind. Well the good news is that WetlandSupplies has got all the species and varieties that you may be eyeing with delivery being made to your home state without delays. That’s because it has a huge collection of the native plants in America, and the likelihood of your varieties being among said collection is almost guaranteed. Read more...
The Survival Garden – A New Way to Grow Your Very Own Healthy and Nutritious, Low Maintenance Home Grown Food. Recently I came across a website called Survival Food Plants, which I must say, I found to be totally fascinating. You see this is a term that I must admit I wasn’t completely familiar
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Think of Australia and thoughts of Uluru, "throw another shrimp on the barbie" and kangaroos come to mind. But, some of our most beautiful icons are the flora that the unforgiving Australian climate can produce. Not only are they seen thriving in Australian gardens and bushland, they can also be seen on Australian currency and as our national emblem. It's surprising to learn about just how many varieties of beautiful Australian natives are available.
Kangaroo Paw
With their unique flowers and range of colours and forms, Kangaroo Paws are among the most stunning of Australian native plants.
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Sometimes you may look at your home garden and then feel like you need to change the appearance and get something that is more natural looking, and that being inclined to mean wild as well. It might be because you saw some as you drove by and the thought of having some natural bloomers in your backyard crossed your mind. Well the good news is that WetlandSupplies has got all the species and varieties that you may be eyeing with delivery being made to your home state without delays. That’s because it has a huge collection of the native plants in America, and the likelihood of your varieties being among said collection is almost guaranteed.
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Phillip Johnson Landscapes won the industry’s highest award for commercial landscaping, at the Australian Landscape Excellence Awards in May, for the maintenance of the tallest green wall in the world. The thirty-three metre high green wall adorns the TRIO apartment building in Camperdown. A collaboration with renowned French botanist Patrick Blanc for Fraser Property Group’s TRIO development, Phillip Johnson Landscapes collaborated on the design and plant selection for the expansive wall, and created innovative maintenance systems which set new global benchmarks in the field. Spreading across twelve storeys, the massive green wall comprises 4,528 native Australian plants from seventy-one different species, all planted from 50mm tubes which have grown to over 305 times their initial size. Read more...
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Native Plants
