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Beyond Bunya Dieback Symposium
Bringing Community Together to Care for Country - Friday, 14th March 2025. Focus on exploring practical strategies for moving forward. Learn from our neighbours in Aotearoa (New Zealand) as they share their experiences and insights from ongoing efforts to protect and restore Kauri forests.
Colourful Paper Daisies!
Add a splash of colour and charm to your garden! We are excited to showcase several stunning forms of these cheerful blooms, just waiting to brighten up your outdoor space.
Richmond Birdwing Vine and Butterfly
Seeing Richmond Birdwing butterflies lay eggs and caterpillars thrive in their natural habitat brings the tangible results of our conservation efforts to life.
Guarding Your Plants
It all begins with an idea.Planting is an investment in rare plants and our time. Protect your efforts with tree guards from Forest Heart, offering green-Pod enviro guards, Fibre Mulch Mats, and local native plants.
Native or Indigenous?
We prioritize reintroducing SEQLD Indigenous plants to gardens while also offering cultivar and Australian native plants. Our passion for local-native flora ensures a diverse selection catering to curious gardeners' desires to grow plants from both local and broader Australian landscapes.
A Bit Wild
f the extent of your interest in gardening is the perfect lawn and an immaculately pruned hedge (probably Mock Orange), then this article is probably not for you. That said, I aim for inclusiveness in my approach so bear with me and we’ll see if we can’t find some common ground and if not then hopefully some light entertainment.
Are We Facing Bunyageddon!
Bunya dieback appears to be compounded by a range factors, including drought, temperature rises … climate change. Long wet seasons may be ideal for the spread and infection of this disease and damage to occur and if followed by periods of drought, trees that are damaged may then die.
Are You Nuts!
Eating Bunyas is best with family and friends, a communal activity in which we can connect with and share the bounty of this land.
I personally rejoice when the Bunya cones start to fall, I don’t rejoice so much that the nuts are falling, but more that they are landing and available to harvest!
Eucalyptus - the Rocket Tree!
Plant Eucalypts native to your area and/ /or appropriate to the type of planting. There are over 700 Australian endemic Eucalypts. Potential mature heights do vary amongst species, from the smallest Eucalyptus vernicosa theVarnished-leaf Gum of Tasmania to the tallest (historically the tallest trees in the world) Eucalyptus regnans the Mountain Ash.
Dont Panic Just Plant It
Let’s focus on what an abundant garden you can be growing for yourself by growing your own bush foods, fruit trees, vegetables and herbs. Harvesting your own produce is fun, healthy and convenient. There’s nothing quite like popping out into the backyard to harvest some fresh produce.
Gardening in the Era of Covid 19
In this time of great adversity for the health and wealth of people, it’s heartening to see a few positive outcomes including a strengthening of our local communities (while keeping a respectful distance, of course) through the support of our small business’s at least those who have been able to adapt and stay open.
Low Down in Your Garden
When it comes to re-establishing native vegetation we tend to concentrate on the planting of trees and shrubs and if we’re lucky maybe a few Lomandra. But to truly re-establish a diverse ecosystem we must help establish all the groundcovers too such as grasses, herbs, small shrubs and ferns.
Beating the Heat
As I’m writing this, another searing hot and dry day rolls by, fires rage across the northern end of the Sunshine Coast and in the Hinterland and we cower in our air conditioned houses (for those of you that way inclined), on shady verandas and in pools.
A Decade of Myrtle Rust
2020 will be the 10th anniversary of Myrtle Rust being brought into Australia. Myrtle rust was brought into the country as result of the global trade and travel networks of human activity.
Focus on Flora: Cunjevoi - Alocasia brisbanensis
Large lush deep green leaves of Cunjevoi add a tropical twist to the landscape and this particular plant fits into this category. Our largest local member of the Arum Family ARACEAE, this fleshy herb grows to between one and one and a half metres high on the Sunshine Coast, with large leaves up to half a metre long.
I’ve lost my heart to “Bleeding Hearts”
Sometimes a plant can be so common in your field of view that it’s easy to miss its significance and importance to ecosystems, and so it is with your common run of the mill Homalanthus populifolius!
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It all begins with an idea.Planting is an investment in rare plants and our time. Protect your efforts with tree guards from Forest Heart, offering green-Pod enviro guards, Fibre Mulch Mats, and local native plants.