Tag: native plants
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The bigger the better, mostly.
With the climate disaster rapidly gaining steam, we need to reassess our take on cutting down big, old trees willy nilly.
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On the verge of a Community garden (maybe)
The verge garden has been complained about and the Council have stepped in so applications are afoot.
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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…
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Cut Leaf Mint (Prosanthera incisa) in flower
Cut Leaf Mint (Prosanthera incisa) is one of our favourite Native plants. This plant is commonly called Cut Leaf Mint, Native Thyme (not to be confused with Ocimum tenuiflorum or the closely related P. rotundifolia which also have that same common name) or Native Mint (I know, there’s a couple of those too…). We love…
