I hate mowing, so I’ve been getting rid of lawn and replacing it with garden beds for vegies and native plants. There’s still a bit of lawn so mowing is still a chore.
Last year I got a push mower and mowing became so much easier. At first it took a longer time, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘birds’
Flying through the mowing
Posted in Garden, tagged birds, butcherbird, Cracticus, lawn, mowing, push mower, Spring on 29 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reaching for the sky
Posted in Perth, tagged birds, correction, Garden, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, insects, pest control, trees, tuart on 30 June 2009 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this year I blogged about the insect infestation of the young tuart in my garden.
Unfortunately the insects that have already made homes among the tuart’s leaves are causing quite a bit of damage…The problem is the sap-sucking psyllids, also known as eucalyptus lerps, because the nymph constructs a “lerp” to hide under.
In the [...]
Perth is Tuart Country
Posted in Perth, tagged birds, government, indigenous flora, insects, pest control, redevelopment, trees, tuart on 14 January 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last July I blogged about land clearing in WA. Felling of trees not only occurs in rural areas, but also the suburban areas of our cities – some local councils being rather adept at razing a tree if it’s in the way.
Last year The City of Stirling wanted to rezone numerous small parks from [...]
More native plants
Posted in Garden, tagged birds, drought tolerant, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, Lullfitz Nursery, Nuts about Natives, Perth, saving water on 5 November 2008 | 4 Comments »
Now that summer’s almost here and my house is starting to cook during the day, I wanted a climbing plant to grow up the side of my house because the shade-giving African acacia is no more (although the stump keeps growing shoots and I keep lopping them off). My neighbours offered me a piece [...]
My Native Garden
Posted in Perth, tagged Garden, saving water, drought tolerant, Nuts about Natives, birds, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, bush tucker, Zanthorrea Nursery on 12 July 2008 | 4 Comments »
After planning my new native garden, it’s actually happened. I got the plants from my friends at Nuts about Natives and the new arrivals are now planted and growing for the birds and insects to enjoy. Most of them are native to Perth around the area I live.
These are the indigenous plants I now [...]
Jiri Jiri vs the dragon fly
Posted in Indigenous Australians, Perth, tagged birds, insects, Perth on 28 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
I love Willy Wagtails (Rhipidura leucophrys). Jiri Jiri is the Noongar word for Willy Wagtails and that’s what I call them. I learnt this when a Noongar story-teller came to the library I worked at a few years ago. We sang a song about Jiri Jiri, but I can’t remember the song. (I think [...]
With bells on
Posted in Perth, cats, indigenous fauna, invasive species, tagged Animals, birds, Lazyst, Perth on 3 January 2008 | 8 Comments »
Note: If you don’t like animals being killed or you’re a bit squeamish, you might want to skip this post. See you next time.
Ayesha, Wicca and Kyah are the three cats I cohabitate with and the cat across the road thinks he’s part of the clowder. My cats are friends with the cat across the [...]
Flowers after Fire
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species, tagged birds, bushfire, correction, fire tolerant, insects, orchids, Perth, reptiles, reserves, Swan Coastal Plain, xanthorrhoea, zamia on 18 November 2007 | 6 Comments »
In light of California’s recent devastating wildfires and Australia’s upcoming bushfire season I was reminded of Ralph Maughan reprinting George Wuerthner’s essay A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Wuerthner wrote about wildfires in the US, equivalent to Australia’s bushfires. He said,
Fire in the forest is not bad. Fire in our communities is.
I’ve always known [...]
Regeneration after Fire
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species, tagged banksia, birds, bushfire, fire tolerant, jarrah, marri, Perth, reptiles, reserves, trees, tuart, xanthorrhoea, zamia on 12 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In March there was a deliberately lit fire in Star Swamp Bushland Reserve. Last month, after time and rain, we went to see how the regeneration was progressing and it was amazing. The birds were singing everywhere. Ben from Nuts about Natives told me the dead looking zamias would be fine and they were [...]
The Death of a Swamp
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, invasive species, tagged birds, frogs, Perth, redevelopment, reptiles, reserves, wetlands on 28 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
Perth is built on a swamp. These days there’s not too many swampy areas left because over 150 years they’ve been filled in and cleared for development. The most recent demise is the swamp I loved to drive past on my way home. Now I drive past a building site on which is appearing the [...]
Think on this
"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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