When we think of wildlife in our gardens we tend to focus on the birds, reptiles and mammals that we see there. Insects often get overlooked as an important part of a garden habitat, or are seen as a nuisance because they eat plants, build nests in inconvenient places and can often bite or sting!
Here is a selection of local native plants that have caught our attention in March.
Planting out a garden can be expensive exercise, particularly if you have a large space to fill. Some gardeners like to propagate their own plants which can save a lot of money. But what if there were plants that self-propagate and create free plants with no effort from us?
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.
I often get asked how I keep the Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra) looking good in my cultivated native garden.
Sharing the same name as the market town in the Noosa Hinterland, the Eumundi Quandong is looking very colourful at this time of year.