Egad, with our Eco Creative Exhibition last month, and working hours extending, it's been remiss of me to leave this blog a little bit unattended for well over a month! I am spending what spare time I have on my other website converseconserve.com and learning of all things WELSH! It's a beautiful language, and I just seem to have an affinity with this culture, the people, and their love of excessive uses of consonants (d, w in particular), and sing-songy, tongue-twistery way of expressing themselves. It's no surprise that this country is famous for singing, poetry and performance competitions in the form of the Eisteddfods. (Hope I spelt that right, with the right number of consonants, and not too many vowells!)
Have been doing some scouring of the internet to find groups who are active on environmental weeds in Melbourne and haven't really stumbled on anything specific. There are groups that are active on the outskirts of the urban corridor, and in terms of our green wedges, but am eager to join up with people active in relation to suburban weeds. I am on the Futures' Committee of Sustainable Gardening Australia but haven't really wanted to admit to my own ignorance on this point about local networks. There are produce gardening groups galore, but weeds seems to be less of a focus group topic. I have now girded my loins and written an email to the President asking for his help.
Speaking of SGA, here is a page from their section on 'pests and diseases' written by the talented Helen Tuton. Very funny way of combining information with a jocular style of writing. Their Footprint Flicks videos are well worth a viewing. This is eco-creativity to the max! I have a philoteca that is not doing well, and am afraid I will have to pull it out, so will need to bone up on my diseases knowledge more. With record summer temperatures all March long, am looking forward to get back in the garden and start planning some very resilient plants which I will mention in coming blogs. So far I have some grevilleas, a leptospermum continentale, ficinia nodosas, and some woollly bushes (adenanthos sericeus) which are divine.
Blooming and Bold
Without the buzzards and bees
Where would we bee?
A blog by Nicolle Kuna
A blog about sustainable landscaping and some eco-humour and eco-creativity.
Inside this blog we look at everything that is encroaching in to our natural urban landscapes – outdoor rooms (errchkem), weeds, urban noise, excess nutrientsThere’s a bit of art to add extra colour and inspiration. We believe in making sustainability fun - more gaming, less shaming.
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Attribution for above garden design goes to
Andrew Jones, talented artist and designer.
