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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘correction’
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 »
Xanthorrhoea living it up
Posted in Perth, indigenous flora, tagged correction, fire tolerant, Garden, Grasstrees Australia, landscaping, nurseries, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, xanthorrhoea on 9 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
I started this blog with a post about transplanting xanthorrhoea (grass trees) in Perth gardens. I’ve had a few people finding the post and commenting on what amazing landscaping we have in Perth. I agree that the plants growing in Australia are pretty amazing – it’s a good place to live.
But I based [...]
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 [...]
Correcting Earthworms and more Composting tips
Posted in books, cats, dogs, invasive species, tagged anaerobic bacteria, compost, correction, earthworms, Family, Garden, Lazyst, mesophilic bacteria, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 5 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
After writing about earthworms and composting the other week, I read Composting: from organic waste to black gold by Victoria Heywood (Penguin, 2005) and found out I got some things wrong. I thought I’d better correct my mistakes.
I’ve always thought that composting and vermiculture were completely different. I knew in the back of my mind [...]
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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