Regular readers of the UWG newsletter will be familiar with Stephanie’s plant sheets where she highlights each month the local native species which are providing colour in the Noosa area with their new growth, flowers, fruit or trunks with peeling bark.
Stephanie has spent countless hours over many years photographing, formatting and compiling the photos together with information about each plant and its location, growth, the food and habitat it provides for wildlife and how we can make the best use of it in our gardens.
All of the plant sheets are on the new website (https://urbanwildlifegardens.org.au/resources-links/) as flipbooks for each month. It is a quick guide for those who want to have colour in their wildlife garden. A garden that has a variety of plants flowering, fruiting and setting seed in different months will provide an ongoing food supply that will attract birds and other wildlife throughout the year.
Here are a few that will provide colour in your garden in February.
Species List:
Alphitonia excelsa – Red Ash
Commelina diffusa – Climbing Dayflower
Freycinetia scandens – Climbing Pandanus
Lomatia silaifolia – Parsley Bush
Melicope elleryana – Pink Doughwood / Euodia
Parsonsia straminea – Monkey Rope Vine
Pipturus argenteus – Native Mulberry
Pseuderanthemum variabile – Love Flower
Zieria smithii – Sandfly Zieria / Lanoline Bush
Vanessa Presling
