Lucky us! In mid-April we had the pleasure of strolling the nursery with the Minister for Agriculture, David Littleproud, and the Federal Member for the Wide Bay region, Llew O’Brien. They stopped by to congratulate us on our successful Volunteer Grant application, and now we are able to provide our volunteers with further facilities and […]
Seed Propagation – And So Ends the Journey of the Seed
At long last! After three drawn-out months of scrambling through undergrowth and dangling from tree-tops (seed collection), of gastrointestinal anguish and carpal-tunnel syndrome (seed processing), and of complete and utter phonetic confusion (having to learn Latin just to understand the identification books), the moment of glory has arrived – chucking that damn seed at a […]
Nursery Manager’s Plant of the Month – Native Primrose, Ludwigia octovalvis
Here is a plant I wouldn’t have dreamed of promoting even two weeks ago in the heat and dry. A wetland plant! Any of you with a dam, frogpond or even aquarium, may be familiar with an introduced primrose that can sprawl across the surface of the water and grow up from the shallows, with […]
