Enjoy the first in a continuing blog about Stephanie’s garden at Lake Cooroibah. Like many new Urban Wildlife Gardeners, she doesn’t know much about the visiting fauna, so her 2021 challenge is to learn more about it and share it with us. In this first edition she finds koalas and native bees – click through for more photos and news from Stephanie’s garden.
Urban Wildlife Gardens member Wave O’Connor sent in this letter with images of the work they are doing in their garden following the visit by Michelle. Work so far included removing most of the mock orange, leaving some of it to act as a screen from the street and a bit of shade from the western sun, painting the very old lattice red in lieu of expensive laser cut , rusty metal screens (budget being important!) and planting a whole range of native species. Click through to see some of the images of Wave’s hard work to make their garden wildlife friendly.
Stephanie’s photographs follow the natural regeneration of vegetation after the fires around Cooroibah in November 2019.
Lake Cooroibah residents were treated to the rare sight of a koala in one of their Eucalypts following the recent fires. The koala rescue team set up a fence around the group of trees, installed a camera, set a trap and waited. On the second night she came down, thought the trap was a gateway to safety and was caught and relocated to dense bushland some distance away.