Tag: bush medicines
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Port Parham Bush foods talk
Yesterday (Sunday February 23rd), yours truly visited the Port Parham Sports & Social Club to give a little talk on bushfoods. I’d been to Port Parham a few times before and passed the social club building each time but never stayed. I’d always been on the search for coastal bushfoods. My usual trick when I’m…
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There’s another old man at our house
Yes, there’s a new old man living at Ligaya Garden… Old Man Saltbush, that is! He’s another addition to our verge garden. A tough old fella who can thrive in the worst conditions but should do just as well with a little love from us Old Man Saltbush (Atriplex nummularia) is a favourite in the…
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A Grass Roots story
I’ve a little story on pages 16-18 of the current (#252 April/May 2019) edition of Grass Roots magazine. It’s a little piece about the Australian Native edible plants we have here at Ligaya Garden and why we chose them. I hope you can grab a copy and check out our article and the many others…
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Kangaroo Apple (Solanum aviculare)
Family: Solanaceae Habitat: Forest margins, woodland edges Description and uses: Kangaroo Apple (Solanum aviculare) is one of the amazing Solanum family which gives us so much of our food and lots of our medicines. It’s a bushy plant that grows to around 3 metres tall down this way but may be bigger elsewhere. Kangaroo Apple has deeply lobed…
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The Native verge
The Native verge garden is underway and, in true Ligaya Garden form, everything is edible or medicinal as well as being drought tolerant. I’ve put in seedlings of Acacia retionoides (wirilda) Myoporum insulare (Boobiala) and Dodonea viscosa (Sticky Hop Bush). The Acacia is a fast growing legume to stabilize and replenish the soil that was…
