I love it when mushrooms pop up in my garden but now winter’s over there’ll be no more until next year. I like looking through my friend’s copy of The Magical World of Fungi by Patricia Negus [1], to ID fungi I come across. Although it may be the drawing of a fairy sitting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Garden’
Winter Mushrooms
Posted in Perth, tagged fungi, Garden, mushrooms, winter on 25 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Sunny Spring
Posted in Perth, tagged drought, drought tolerant, Garden, indigenous flora, rainfall, saving water, water restrictions, watering, Weather on 18 October 2008 | 4 Comments »
Spring sprung a couple of months ago and summer is on its way. Hot days of 30°C have started already and the rain has pretty much ended for the year. I thought it rained quite a bit at the end of September, but we recieved less than the September average of 90.1mm. Last month 75.8mm [...]
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 [...]
Eating Locally
Posted in Perth, tagged carbon emissions, farmers market, Garden, greenhouse gas emissions, local food, organic, sustainable living on 24 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Start small and build up your production as your skills increase and you will soon discover the unbridled joy that growing your own food can give – and you can bask in the glow of knowing you are doing your bit – The Diggers Club [1]
I just got The Diggers Club Winter Garden catalogue and [...]
Bobtail lizards sunning on the road
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, tagged car, Garden, Perth, pest control, reptiles on 2 March 2008 | 8 Comments »
With a title like that, things could only end in tragedy. Last week I found a dead Western Bobtail lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) on my street a couple of houses down from mine. He was in front of the empty block, which would make good bobtail habitat with all those weeds and long grass. He may [...]
Native Garden Plans
Posted in Perth, indigenous flora, invasive species, tagged drought tolerant, Garden, Nuts about Natives, Perth, saving water, watering on 15 February 2008 | 3 Comments »
When I visited my friends at Nuts about Natives a couple of weeks ago their yellow leschenaultia (Lechenaultia linarioides) were flowering. They looked so pretty that I wanted one for my garden. Ben told me I should plant it in the ground, not keep it in a pot. Most of the plants I get [...]
Incey wincey spider
Posted in indigenous fauna, tagged Garden, House, spiders on 7 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last year I blogged about my liking for spiders, as long as they stay outside in the garden. Crazy Mumma recently blogged about how she hates finding Huntsman spiders in her house and I don’t like this so much either, but I thought I was a lot calmer about it now than I [...]
Green School Days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Garden, libraries, School, sustainable building, Worldwide on 31 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
Next week school goes back and this reminded me of some sustainable schools I read about last year. I’m a librarian doing research on teenagers’ reading habits so I read School Library Journal. The September 2007 issue had an article on sustainably designed schools Going Green: Eco-friendly Schools by Debra Lau Whelan.
In late 2005, the [...]
Growing pots
Posted in Perth, tagged Garden, Perth, pest control, Recycling, seed saving, vegetables, watering, Weather on 24 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, I’m not growing pot. I’m growing pots – or that’s what it looks like anyway.
It’s been so hot (which isn’t unusual for Perth’s summers) and my dad puts empty plastic pots on top of his smaller vegie plants during the heat of the day so they have their own little shade house. When I [...]
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"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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