If you’re in need of some spring colour amongst all the gloom (because of the weather or life in general), then take a trip to the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia to visit Nangawooka flora reserve. This 5 acre reserve which used to be a cow pasture, is home to more than 1250 varieties of… Read More Finding Spring Colour on the Fleurieu
It’s meant to be spring now and we are well into the first month but thanks to the La Nina weather event, the third in a row, the experts tell us that Australia’s east coast is in for another wet, and cool spring and summer. Here in South Australia we are feeling the effects too… Read More Spring is Coming…Eventually
…and so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young… John Lennon & Yoko Ono ~ Happy Christmas (War is Over) 1971
Tucked away off the busy Goolwa Terrace is an interesting park full of Australian plants native to the area and a pathway leading through them, dotted with interpretive signage. The signs explain how the plants were used by the local indigenous Ngarrindjeri people for food and medicine. The park was created in 2007 as a… Read More Jekejere Park – Goolwa
This Botanic Garden in Port Augusta was officially opened in 1996 with a purpose to display and promote the plant diversity of the arid lands of South Australia. Today it continues to conserve arid land flora in its natural environment while educating visitors on how to use native plants in home gardens. Now especially with… Read More The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
No matter how many stories I’ve had printed, it’s always a thrill to see another one in a magazine. I have a number of stories in the pipeline at the moment with a few different magazines, but they’re in the lap of the gods (or should I say editors) as to when they get printed.… Read More Land of Ragged Mountain Ranges
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