Australian Native Garden
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We were given a native Frangipani tree as a house warming gift back in 2010. Having been stuck in a pot this whole time, we weren’t sure how it would cope with being moved into the ground, or given a hard prune. But with some care, we were able to successfully give this Frangipani a…
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Lately I’ve noticed a few new visitors in my backyard – butterflies. These butterflies are native to Victoria. All but one was tricky to capture as they are small and a bit ‘flighty’, so it required me to be patient and hold the iPhone very still. Butterflies eventually bring insect eating native birds to the…
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It’s only been a few months since I posted on my website, but boy has the garden grown! Spring arrived and everything took off like crazy. Each time I went outside everything had grown another centimetre. I was recently looking at the slideshow of when I finished adding the dry river bed to the backyard.…
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Last weekend I finally got around to (almost) completing the dry river bed that features in our backyard design. The left side of our backyard is a flat, decent-sized area that lacks ‘energy’. It’s also an area that puddles very quickly where there is a downpour of rain. Betsy-Sue did a great job in her…
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Australia is blessed with a unique frog diversity, and is home to over 200 frog species, with 10 frog species local to the western basalt plains. Unfortunately frog populations are depleting at an alarming rate – 43 of our frog species’ are listed as endangered or vulnerable, and three are presumed extinct. The biggest reason…
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Back in April our house was lucky enough to be chosen for a local council program, Habitat Heroes. Part of the program included a free landscape design for a section of our garden, and we chose to use it on our front yard. But that didn’t mean our backyard didn’t need any work. Far from…
