Aromatic Plants in the Urban Garden
There are many locally native plants suited to urban gardens that provide wonderful foliage aromas, many contain botanical and culinary properties as well as provide valuable habitat for wildlife.
Workshop: What Wildlife is in Your Garden?
Come along to The J in Noosa Head on Saturday 21 March to learn how to attract wildlife to your coastal garden from the NICA Urban Wildlife Gardens experts.
Open Garden – Revisit Black Mountain – Three Years On
Member Shaun Walsh is hosting an open garden visit. It has been 3 years since he showed the garden in 2023, soon after demolishing the previous exotic garden and starting from scratch.
Out with old, in with the new!
There have been some major changes at the Castaways beach verge garden of late. The established Metrosideros (NZ Christmas Bush) hedge was chain-sawed down over Christmas.
Celebrating Christmas with a Lemon Myrtle Shortbread Recipe
What better treat to make for Christmas than Lemon Myrtle Shortbread, using fresh leaves from the local and commonly available Backhousia citriodora – Lemon Scented Myrtle.
Noosa’ Native Plants – Flowering Now
NICA has recently published ‘Noosa’s Native Plants – Flowering Now’, the latest publication by Stephanie Haslam.