Books

Mangroves to Mountains. A Field Guide to the Native Plants of South-east Queensland. Glenn Leiper, Jan Glazebrook, Denis Cox & Kerry Rathie (2009)

Price – $65

Grow your own Bushfoods. A practical guide to growing and harvesting over 140 kinds of Australian bushfoods right in your own backyard. Keith Smith and Irene Smith (1999)

Price – $35

Growing Australian Native Plants from Seed. Murray Ralph (2011). For revegetation, tree planting, and direct seeding. Tips on growing over one thousand native plant genera and thousands of individual species.

Price – $30

Noosa’s Native Plants. A field guide to 500 local plants found throughout the Sunshine Coast, Cooloola and Fraser Island. Stephanie Haslam (2004)

Price – $45

Rainforest Climbing Plants. A field guide to their identification in Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features.Gwen Harden, Bill McDonald, John Williams (2007). Black and white line drawings only.

Price – $50

Rainforest Trees and Shrubs. A field guide to their identification in Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features. Gwen Harden, Bill McDonald, John Williams (2006)

Price – $50 

 

Weeds of the Sunshine Coast. A field guide for identification of weeds common throughout Cooloola, Fraser Island and South-east Queensland. Methods of Weed control and disposal are discussed.  Joan Heavey and Sonia MacDonald (2013)

Price – $45 

Grasses. Native and Introduced grasses of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve and Surrounding Regions. A starting point to the study of grasses with full size images of 63 native and 45 introduced grasses. Sonia MacDonald and Stephanie Haslam (2009)

Price – $40

Sedges Rushes & Restiads of the Noosa Biosphere and Surrounding Regions. The book is intended as a starting point in the study of sedges, rushes and restiads. It contains full size images of local sedges, rushes and restiads. Written by Sonia MacDonald and Stephanie Haslam

Price – $40

Australian Stingless Bees. A Guide to Sugarbag Beekeeping. A handbook for anyone interested in keeping native honey bees. John Klumpp (2007)

Price – $25

Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use. Journeys of an Australian Anthropologist. Descriptions of the plants used by Aboriginal People in different regions of Australia and that contribute to their distinctiveness. Philip A Clarke (2014)

Price – $55

The Mistletoes of Subtropical Queensland, New South Wales & Victoria. This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed treatment of the 46 species of mistletoe in eastern Australia. John T Moss and Ross Kendall

Price – $25

The Australian Native Bee Book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings, and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged with these unique creatures. Tim Heard 2017

Price – $35

Much of Australia’s wildlife will not survive without hollows for nesting. The complete practical guide with extensive plans, this book is ideal for your garden! With some basic carpentry skills, you can build a nest box, and be rewarded by the pleasure of watching the activities of the wildlife that take up residence.

Price – $27

If you are heading toward Queensland’s Sunshine Coast this summer, you may want to get hold of a copy of this little book. It’s a passport to the cool and beautiful forest of the Conondales, the largest patch of subtropical rainforest and associated eucalyptus forest remaining in the hinterland. The Conondale Range National Park is the result of a 25 year-long campaign by the book’s authors, the Conondale Range Committee, to preserve what they describe as a botanical and biological wonderland. By this they mean not just the forest itself, but also the plants, birds, and animals that depend on this ecosystem for survival.

Price – $15