tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749299995426051122024-03-05T15:27:50.123+11:00diary of a suburban gardenerSue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-49060733800656319062019-10-27T20:25:00.000+11:002019-10-27T20:25:40.491+11:00breaking up is hard to do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For 10 years I wrote about my nature thoughts, beliefs, values and experiences. For 10 years I 'met' and made friends with other bloggers from all over the world.<br />
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Endings are painful, scary, exciting, opportunities for change. Blogging has been a wonderful experience. Being a blogger even became part of my identity. <br />
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I'm still gardening, but don't have the same need to write or take photos. It's enough to do it. It still makes me happy, but I can't do it for hours on end any more. At my age, I suppose I'm lucky I can do it at all.<br />
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I am aware that a blog is not a physical object like a book, so it
doesn't need to be finished. It can just be left, floating around in
cyberspace (wherever that is) with billions of other virtual artefacts. <br />
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<i>Artefact (</i>The Oxford English Dictionary): <i>"an object that is made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest."</i><br />
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I want to complete this artefact with a final post. I wonder whether one day it may be of interest to future historians, or archaeologists in the even more distant future. I wonder whether my grandchildren will look at it when they are grown up, and regard it as a family heirloom. I wonder if the technology needed to access it will even be available in the future.<br />
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And if <i>diary of a suburban gardener</i> just keeps swirling around in cyberspace, one blog among millions, that's OK too. It's been a great journey. I learned so much, and enjoyed every minute.<br />
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Goodbye, dear cyberfriends.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-87300807263374645452019-03-22T21:16:00.000+11:002019-03-22T21:16:40.470+11:00humans and nonhumans, or yoga for chickens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2014 Scott Pruitt, controversial ex-head of the EPA in the US, challenged a Californian law that required chickens to be kept in cages big enough for them to extend their wings. "It's almost like having a cage that's air-conditioned, and they can do yoga", he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading Montgomery describe her love for several octopuses, I am reminded of my deeply loving and satisfying communication with a being of another species, Potter, my dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bear witness to the dramatic disappearance of insects in my lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What sort of world will my grandchildren live in when they're grown up?</span></div>
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The young tiny Willow Myrtle that I brought home about 30 years ago has grown up and up, and is now slowly dying. My next door neighbour didn't like to see dead branches so we paid someone to cut some of the branches back. I don't mind looking at dead branches and brown leaves. To me it's part of the living and dying process. But I think I will have to get the company back because at least one of the branches could break off and is potentially dangerous.<br />
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On the other side of the garden a gum tree I also planted in the 1980s is growing towards the light and over my other neighbour's swimming pool, potentially very dangerous. <i>Eucalypts are known to drop their branches unexpectedly and sensible campers don't erect tents under them.</i><br />
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I guess this is the sort of thing you have to expect from an established garden. After all, it's not as if it's ever finished ... time equals change.<br />
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I don't know who is nesting here, but there are definitely signs of habitation. This is the tree that is dying. I'll only cut off the branches that are dangerous, and if necessary I'll move the nesting box.<br />
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Yesterday I saved the lives of 5 insects that had fallen into the birdbath: 3 tiny flies, one small Christmas beetle and one small caterpillar. There was also an aphid, but I squashed it. Mercy doesn't extend that far.<br />
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I don't think it's going to make much difference to the alarming loss of biomass of insect populations. But it felt like a good thing to do and it was satisfying.<br />
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I have from time to time attempted to relocate small critters from the house to the garden. I've given up doing this as it usually ends badly. Like the time I broke the leg of the small lizard the dog was interested in. Similarly with the beetle in the kitchen. It panicked and kept trying to get away. It wouldn't crawl onto my hand so I couldn't take it outside. I gave up but I'm afraid I may have inadvertently harmed its delicate body.<br />
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In contrast to this, rescuing drowning insects is easy if you manage to fish them out before they are dead. Insects float on the surface, unable to get away because of the water pressure. The rescued flies lay on my hand and moved their wings ineffectually. Because they were wet they couldn't fly. I moved into the sun. They dried out and eventually off they flew.<br />
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The beetle I fished out walked round and round my hand. I could feel the grip of its sticky legs. After a while I moved it onto a stick and watched it. It didn't move. I could tell this was not an optimal habitat, so I gently knocked it off the stick onto the earth.<br />
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The Christmas beetle immediately came to life, wriggling, tunnelling under the soil. I watched the earth move. Then it disappeared. Was it trying to recover its lost larvahood? Christmas beetle larvae live underground and feed on roots. Adults eat eucalyptus leaves. What was going on? Perhaps this particular individual behaved as it did because of post traumatic stress? Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing. Interspecies understanding and communication is not easy.<br />
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Here are some more photos of the front garden in spring.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-14338843064319208322018-11-21T22:22:00.000+11:002018-11-21T22:22:56.174+11:00casual infrequent blogging<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I haven't posted in this blog for more than three months. It seems being a blogger is not necessarily a way of life after all. I'm feeling very ambivalent about it. Part of me wants to formally conclude the blog, as if it was a book that has an ending. Another part wants to keep my options open.<br />
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Anyway, it's spring, and here's a few shots of my spring garden. It has rained recently, so that was a big relief to me and the greenery. The garden's mostly doing well, except the tall Agonis flexuosa, aka Willow Myrtle, in the back is dying from lack of water. It's lived for over 30 years, but apparently they can live much longer. I don't feel distraught though - it simply wasn't meant to survive longer in that spot. I'll leave it there and birds can still sit in its branches, and the possum nesting box is still secure.<br />
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Nice spring flowers as you can see, but distressingly few insects. Usually bees going crazy in the poppies, but only a few this year. I've seen the occasional moth, butterfly and hoverfly but not nearly as many as in the past. I saw only one single damselfly.<br />
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Plenty of birds though, regularly visiting the clean water bowl. Mostly large birds - magpies, ravens, pied currawongs, little wattle birds, blackbirds, pigeons - and occasionally delightful flocks of small insect eating birds, thornbills and wrens and finches.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-23467494600663415652018-08-06T20:52:00.000+10:002018-08-06T20:52:27.532+10:00blogging as a way of life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Am I the only blogger who thinks about the extra time they would get if they stopped blogging? In a few months it will be a decade since I went beyond my comfort zone and ventured into the blogosphere, not really sure what I was doing and what it would lead to.<br />
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Now, 9 and a half years later, it's more than a project. Being a blogger is one of multiple identities, and one that gives enormous satisfaction. I enjoy expressing my thoughts in writing. I enjoy having a reason to take photos.<br />
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If I stopped blogging what would I do with all my ideas and notes for future blog posts? In 2012 I wrote a post called <i><a href="https://slowgardener.blogspot.com/2012/10/6-posts-i-probably-wont-write.html">6 posts I probably won't write</a>. </i> I never did write them.<br />
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In my drafts folder currently there is stuff on our relationship with insects, the importance of tree hollows and photos I took at an interesting art installation about 6 months ago. When I was in Myanmar recently I took lots of tree photos and thought of writing a post about the cultural meaning of trees there. Will I write these posts? Only in time will I know the answer to this question.<br />
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I enjoy interacting with my cyber friends. I never cease to wonder about this. We have never met, and are unlikely ever to meet in person, yet you are all very important, and I feel we do get to know each other over time.<br />
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If I stopped blogging I would miss friends and fellow bloggers like Linda, David, Peter, Kris, EC, RD, Nadezda, Pauline, Beth, Jason, Denise, Cheryl, Alastair, Janneke, Tatyana, Sue, Andrea, Chris, Diana and others appreciated but not named here.<br />
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So I won't stop blogging.<br />
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But I will have a break for a while.<br />
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See you ...<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-56825232161684785762018-07-20T17:33:00.000+10:002018-07-20T17:33:06.009+10:00animals in Myanmar - captive, free and working<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One day in Yangon I went to the zoo. I had read the online reviews which were dismal.<br />
So I wasn't looking forward to it, but determinedly went anyway in a spirit of investigation.<br />
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When it was first established in British colonial times, Rangoon Zoo was probably a shining jewel in Queen Victoria's crown. The day I went I saw shabby, rundown accomodation for animals, and a motley collection of fauna, languishing in the humid air.<br />
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The hippo lay in its pitifully small pond.<br />
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Sun bears, I read, tend to live alone. Here, though, there were several in a cage. These bears looked unbearably sad.<br />
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Other, luckier bears, had a whole enclosure and a moat, but they didn't look any happier for this.<br />
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The herd of deer didn't seem so sad. Maybe temperamentally they are more resilient than the larger mammals. Or maybe as a human it's harder to imagine how they must feel.<br />
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The elephants were in chains on a concrete floor.<br />
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There was a white tiger there but I didn't go to see it. I'd seen enough.<br />
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I met a monk who wanted to practice his English. I expressed my concerns about the state of health of many of the animals in the zoo, and wondered if they were ever cared for by vets. The monk didn't seem too bothered by this. He told me he loved animals and every day fed the street dogs that hung around the monastery.<br />
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Later in Bagan, 600 kms north of Yangon, I noticed dogs in many of the temples, sheltering from the intense heat - even though it wasn't yet summer. I thought of the animals in the zoo, and how these dogs led free and independent lives.<br />
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Another class of animals are working animals. A cow walks around in a circle pulling a grindstone that turns peanuts into peanut oil. Cows and buffalo pull carts.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-92068844701145089112018-07-13T08:21:00.000+10:002018-07-13T08:21:50.247+10:00gardening with shoes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">I sometimes walk past a garden fence </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">that is unusual and quirky.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">It's a new style of gardening, I think. </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">I call it </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">shoe gardening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Not any old shoes. They have to be sneakers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"> T</span><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;">his gardener must have a lot of sneakers</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"> they don't want.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Or maybe they're confused.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Maybe this gardener is simply muddled </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">I don't think it would be comfortable </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">wearing </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">pots on your feet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">It's not only in the suburbs you can find sneaker - plant combos. Here's a high flier design in the Carlton Gardens.</span></div>
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This book, by Tim Low, is full of interesting stories about how nature changes, how this affects, and is affected by, us humans and all the other species that together make up the idea of <i>nature</i><i>. </i><br />
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It's not a new book. It was first published in 2002 and has been updated a bit for this new edition. It's not about a particular aspect of our complicated environment. Tim looks at the big picture, and links all these stories into a narrative that gives a way of looking at, and evaluating, changes that are happening all the time around us, and responding to these changes.<br />
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It's about trying to get rid of our preconceptions and prejudices, our comfortable black and white thinking. It's about the risk we incur when we rely on our emotions and avoid thinking. Like, for instance, our beliefs that in relation to the environment humans are bad and animals, especially native animals, are good and in need of our protection.<br />
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The reality is that sometimes there are too many animals in a habitat that can no longer support them. They cannot survive in such numbers, and the stark choice may be to let them starve or cull them. A recent discussion paper by the Department of Environment, Water and Planning raised the question of the usefulness of wildlife shelters caring for injured animals in these kinds of situations.<br />
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Not surprisingly people were outraged at the idea that wildlife carers may be banned from saving native Australian marsupials. The reality is they do this work because it makes them feel good. Their work just doesn't necessarily fit with a plan based on scientific evidence, to improve biodiversity.<br />
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This book also debunked my claim to help the urban environment by having a wildlife friendly garden.<br />
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<i>" Housing estates are very destructive and no amount of tinkering in the garden can alter that... We can't really create genuine rainforests and wetlands up by the barbie - this is naive. The real value of nature gardening is the contact it gives us with nature. We want birds and butterflies because they brighten up our lives. We don't want grasshoppers and moths, not because they need conserving less, but because they don't offer as much pleasure. Wildlife gardening, for most people, is more about personal gratification and flight from guilt than true conservation. We should not pretend that good deeds done in gardens atone for crimes committed elsewhere."</i><br />
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It doesn't make for comfortable reading. Australia is the worst country in the world for destroying forests and land clearing, and has the highest rate of mammal extinctions. We have politicians who are intent on supporting an Indian company, Adani, to build a new, huge coal mine in Queensland, despite even the banks refusing to finance it. And the state government of Victoria recently extended the licenses of two dirty brown coal power stations for another 20 years!<br />
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Tim Low talks about change in terms of winners and losers, opportunities and threats. Overall there are more losers than winners. But the more we understand the bigger picture, and some of the complexities and dilemmas, hopefully the more effectively we will be able to argue our case for stopping, or at least slowing the ongoing environmental degradation.<br />
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I find it impossible to summarize this wonderful book. Just read it!<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-57849540147946737082018-06-18T19:20:00.000+10:002018-06-18T19:20:14.618+10:00garden shoulds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's not that there's never a time and place for <i>should. </i> Psychopaths and sociopaths behave badly and they <i>should </i>be more caring and considerate of others.<br />
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But most of us are not psychopaths or sociopaths. We are just ordinary well meaning people who often feel guilty and drained of pleasure because we feel we have disobeyed our inner, insistent <i>shoulds</i>.<br />
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This applies in the garden just as it is does in other parts of life.<br />
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Here are a few garden <i>shoulds</i>.<br />
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<b>1. You <i>should</i> mulch the garden.</b><br />
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<i>Organic</i> mulches certainly are good for the soil, promoting healthy soil as they decompose. This helps plants to be strong and to resist diseases and pests. They also suppress weeds and conserve water.<br />
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A downside to covering the soil with mulch is that the mulch prevents certain native bees from building their nests in burrows in the ground in urban areas. This would be a shame because our native bees are precious important pollinators and their presence increases biodiversity. Australia has around 1,500 species of native bees, but most of the bees we see are the introduced commercial honeybee.<br />
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Some people simply don't like the look of mulch, seeing it as untidy, and they are perfectly entitled to this position.<br />
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<b>2. You <i>should</i> water the garden.</b><br />
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As I walk around I see many gardens watered unnecessarily. If you want to grow<i> </i>food you probably do need to water - although before European settlement people managed pretty well foraging for bush tucker.<br />
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If you don't want to water the garden, like me, here are three tips: mulch the soil, use dense groundcovers and grow plants that aren't thirsty and can survive dry times.<br />
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<b>3. A garden <i>needs </i>regular upkeep.</b><br />
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It depends on the garden. A formal garden with carefully shaped and sculpted shrubs would need regular upkeep if you want it to look good.<br />
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I garden whenever I can, but I get busy with other aspects of life and sometimes don't manage to garden for weeks at a time. When I can't get into the garden for a while, the effect on <i>me</i> is serious. I miss it so much, I practically come out in a rash. But I need the garden more than the garden needs me. The garden does all right. There may be a few more weeds. Jobs like digging up and dividing plants will still be there when I get back. As will all the other garden tasks.<br />
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<b>4. You <i>shouldn't</i> use insecticides or pesticides.</b><br />
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It depends on the insecticide. Toxic ones like Round up definitely harm the environment, but what are we to do when weeds or insect pests reach plague proportions? If we don't control them somehow they will take over.<br />
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For the last decade or so I have managed my garden without using insecticides or pesticides. Once I was challenged by an invasion of vine weevils, and managed to obtain some beneficial nematodes that are parasitic on weevils, and a natural biological way of solving the problem.<br />
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Another time there was an infestation of caterpillars on a <i>Eucalyptus leucoxylon rosea. </i>First I tried squashing them by hand<i> (gloved!) </i>but there were too many so I chopped the whole tree down to the ground with the caterpillars on it, and put the lot in the recycling bin. I hope they died there. I feel uncomfortable that I just might have passed the problem on to someone else. Anyway, soon the tree grew back - multi- trunked and minus the caterpillars.<br />
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<b>5. The garden <i>should</i> be for living in, not just for looking at.</b><br />
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I heard this <i>should</i> at the International Garden Design conference from one of the garden design stars. Of course I immediately felt upset and that somehow I had failed because my garden is looked at from inside the house much more often than being physically occupied. <i>Partly because most people seem reluctant to be outside when it's cold and don't like being bitten by mosquitos when it's hot.</i><br />
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Once I stopped feeling like a failure and regained my capacity to think, I realized I'm perfectly happy with this. If people come into the garden, that's fine. If they choose to look at it through the windows that's fine too. As long as they don't completely turn their backs to the windows - that's going a step too far!<br />
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<b>6. You <i>should</i> use indigenous plantings.</b><br />
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I am a member of IFFA <a href="http://www.iffa.org.au/">(Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association)</a>. Its aims are pure and to be supported: <i>t<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">o promote the appreciation, study, conservation and management of indigenous flora and fauna through research and discussion, networking and advocacy, and information exchange.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">But today's world is multicultural, and even if you tried, you couldn't stop change. Some non indigenous flora and fauna have naturalized, and don't necessarily harm the environment. We want to save as many threatened species as we can. But personally, I suffer from too much doubt to be able to maintain a hard line stand on just about anything.</span></span><br />
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<b>7. You <i>should</i> grow your own food.</b><br />
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Sigh ... yes, maybe we <i>should</i>. Heaps of advantages for individuals and for the planet. It's just that I prefer to have a different kind of garden. There's lots of self sown parsley and that's a food, but it wouldn't really give you a balanced diet.<br />
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So ... let's grow what we like, and never forget: Green is good!<br />
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I suggest we write our garden <i>shoulds </i>on a piece of biodegradable paper, rip up the paper and add the shreds to the compost heap.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-78536520740678545352018-06-12T17:52:00.000+10:002018-06-12T21:52:08.986+10:00garden catchup, and thanks to Feedspot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the summer the garden drooped, wilted and sulked and I couldn't bear to take photos. It's now come back smiling again, and I feel bad that I forgot how resilient it is. Even when I don't get round to mulching it in time for summer, it's generally very forgiving.<br />
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Autumn leaves are falling. June is supposed to be winter, but the days are alarmingly sunny and pleasant, although the nights are cold.<br />
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I collected oak leaves from the street and chucked them straight onto the garden, like a cosy blanket to protect it from the cold.<br />
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I spent a few days pulling things out and generally rethinking the garden pictures. You have to do this, I have found, every few years, otherwise the picture deteriorates as things get out of proportion.<br />
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I realize that I garden for the future, not for the ever-changing now. I love seeing the potential beauty of the garden in my mind, even if it looks currently a bit bare or puny to other eyes. When the Loquat in the photo above self seeded, I decided to clear the growth around it to give it light and the best growing conditions. It will take several years to fill the space, but that's OK. I'll watch its progress.<br />
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I appreciate the casual untidiness and contrasting foliage in the picture. I re-arranged the hardy New Zealand Lilies that thrive in shade <i>(Arthropodium cirratum</i>) and dotted them around the weedy but likeable fishbone ferns.<br />
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The <i>Correa pulchellas </i>are doing well and blooming prolifically.<br />
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The flautist has seen many changes in the garden, but just goes on soundlessly playing. He doesn't mind the informality (a polite term for messiness).<br />
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The Crabapple tree has lost its leaves and showing off its gnarled branches behind the row of Correas.<br />
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I think it's very important to have a few spots in the garden inviting you to sit down, although I rarely do. Sticky Boobiallas (<i>Myoporum petiolatum</i>) form a see through screen now that I've loved them with my secateurs.<br />
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These Winged Spyridium (<i>Spyridium vexillerum</i>) are short lived. I used to have them in the garden, but they died. These are newly bought and planted, and hopefully will last a few years. It grows wild in other regions of Victoria, but is not local to Melbourne.<br />
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Wallflowers are one of my very favourite plants. They require so little care and flower so generously, except in summer.<br />
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I'm still trying to establish an interesting dry cottage style garden in the front. There are gaps and many plants need to grow larger, but I think (<i>hope)</i> I'm on the way to getting there. Plants that seem to be working include <i>Euphorbia Silver Swan</i>, <i>Euphorbia characis</i>, <i>Asparagus meyerii </i>(Foxtail Fern), <i>Liriope gigantea</i> 'Evergreen Giant', <i>Helleborus argutifolius, Salvia greggii</i> with white flowers and others with yellow flowers and <i>Echium candicans</i> that self seeded in the back and were moved to the front.<br />
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I bought some more Lavender Hidcote to replace the newly planted ones that died over the summer. It was the wrong time then to plant them, but these should get established before the bruising heat returns. These lavenders have dreamy bright purple flowers.<br />
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The colours of the Smoke Bush keeps changing. Soon after this picture was taken there was hardly any green left.<br />
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Symmetry is employed sparingly in an informal garden, so on one side of the brick path is the sharp foliage of Euphorbia rigida, and on the other is the softness of Cretan savoury (<i>Satureja thymbra</i>) and Seaside Daisies.<br />
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Potter was the name of our dog. We had her for 17 and a half years. She had a sweet nature. We loved her so much and she loved us back.<br />
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Potter also functioned as garden ornament. She loved being in the garden, although she never quite forgave me for getting rid of the lawn.<br />
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She lived through many incarnations of the garden.<br />
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She used to spend a lot of time looking under the gate. She didn't watch TV, so this was her main source of visual stimulation. Whenever dogs or humans passed, she let them know she was there in her best soprano bark.<br />
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As she aged, we noticed she was becoming deaf. In time, she became completely deaf. We would be walking past a fence with dogs barking madly at her, but she didn't move a hair.<br />
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Then her eyesight began to fail. She could see you, but you had to be pretty close.<br />
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By this time she was sleeping more, and would more often be found asleep on her beanbag than wondering the garden.<br />
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When she started to lose control of her back legs, we made the excruciating decision it was time for her to die, before she had no quality of life left at all.<br />
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We found a lovely caring vet who came to the house, and Potter died peacefully in my arms.<br />
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We miss her terribly.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-82942853835137805922018-05-14T17:48:00.000+10:002018-05-14T21:35:01.854+10:00native nursery, critique of native nursery and "native" wildflower<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
About an hour's drive from my house is <a href="http://www.kuranga.com.au/">Kuranga Nursery.</a><br />
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Kuranga stocks a huge range of native Australian plants. If it's native, you'll probably pick it up there.<br />
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It's also a very attractive place, at the edge of suburbia with a bushy feel to it.<br />
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I looked up Kuranga to see what it meant. I thought it must mean something in the local indigenous language.<br />
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It's a Hindi male name, meaning <i>deer. </i> Go figure ...<br />
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I saw a kookaburra, but it was camera shy and flew away before I could take its photo.<br />
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I'd picked up some <i>Ptilotus exaltatus</i> at Bunnings. I thought I'd get some more because I love them and they remind me of being in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia where they grew wild and prolifically.<br />
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In Kuranga they helpfully classify the plants in relation to how hardy and reliable they are. <i>P. exalata </i>scored a "Fuss Pot" grade, so I didn't buy any. I thought I'd wait and see how the ones already in my garden got on.<br />
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I don't mind a short flowering time for a plant, but to earn its place it needs to self seed or at least provide structure when it's not flowering. This one has no structure. Will it self seed in my garden? Maybe. I hope so, but won't hold my breath.<br />
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The climate of the Flinders Ranges is one of high rainfall, as well as periods of drought. It is a very different climate to that of Melbourne.<br />
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At the recent <a href="https://slowgardener.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/melbourne-landscape-conference.html">International Landscape Conference</a> held in Melbourne, one of the speakers spoke disparagingly of Kuranga <i>because</i> it had so many species of Australian plants for sale.<br />
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It was only the other day when I was reading Tim Low's book <a href="https://www.timlow.com/books/the-new-nature">The New Nature</a>, that I understood why this person spoke like that. A native plant doesn't mean anything in a country like Australia - a continent encompassing a huge climate range.<br />
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Defining a plant by its political boundaries just doesn't make sense. Plants are biological beings that do not respect borders. Lots of "native" plants have become terrible weeds, just as lots of "exotic" plants become well behaved environmentally useful citizens.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-31372505444065097442018-05-04T03:52:00.000+10:002018-05-04T03:52:07.891+10:00What lives in the garden yet isn't flora or fauna?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are things in my garden that don't photosynthesise or breathe. They might get a bit shabby, or rusty, but they don't really change much over time.<br />
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The little guinea fowl family have lived in the front garden for many years. My grandsons play with old coconut shells in the garden. To my surprise one day it appeared the guinea fowl had laid a very large egg. Still waiting for it to hatch to see what's inside ...<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Every garden needs at least one fairy. Traditionally they live at the bottom of the garden, but in my case a fairy looks after a pot plant near the front door.</span></div>
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Pig is shy and hides behind the rocks. She's got a white spot on her nose. I think a disrespectful bird put it there.<br />
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Three corrugated iron flying ducks decorate the side of the house where the deck is. They've been there for years and have never flown away.</div>
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-74500011259230513512018-04-20T22:24:00.000+10:002018-04-20T22:24:17.069+10:00quotes that speak to me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>"I don't believe in final answers, only unfolding stories."</i><br />
- Tim Low, Australian biologist, environmental consultant and writer.<br />
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- Anne Frank, writer and Holocaust victim.</div>
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<i>"One day while I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling like a part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed." </i><br />
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<i>"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." </i><i> </i><br />
- Alan Cohen, writer and entrepreneur.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-26581546836590134212018-04-08T12:27:00.000+10:002018-04-09T09:23:57.558+10:00photographing wildlife<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">One of the things I learned in the online </span><a href="https://digital-photography-school.com/" style="text-align: left;">Digital Photography School</a><span style="text-align: left;">, is that when you take a photo of an insect, it is best to focus on its eyes. I'm proud of this photo of a Daddy Long Legs spider. It's the first time I've even seen the eyes of this species. Luckily it cooperated and looked straight into the lens.</span></div>
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The reason it's on the white background is that this spider lives in our bath. It's a puzzle to me. I would have thought it's an arid place to live. Not much chance of catching supper, I would thought. Other spiders I have known have chosen dark corners to live in. I think they were more sensible.</div>
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I think it thinks it's our pet. I'm getting fond of it. If I happen to catch a fly I'll give it to the spider. Unfortunately for the spider, I catch flies even less often than I use the bath.</div>
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This photo of a praying mantis was taken by my friend Jill. It was in her garden. I don't think Jill has been to Digital Photography School, but she intuitively photographed the eyes. I love this photo. It reminds me of a surprised alien. Not that I've ever seen a surprised alien, but over the years I've consumed a lot of sci fi, so I have an idea what a surprised alien might look like.<br />
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This shot is of a Giant Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes interioris), taken by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristianbell/33506484676/">Kris Bell</a>. Kris is one of my very favourite wildlife photographers. Jill and I could be classed as enthusiastic amateur wildlife photographers. Kris is the real deal. He <i>always</i> captures the eyes of the critters he photographs.<br />
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Very knowledgeable, Kris works at Deakin University in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences.<br />
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He found the frog near Savernake, New South Wales. It's rare in Victoria, but it's Victoria's largest frog. It spends most of its hidden underground, emerging only after rain to feed and spawn. It must have taken careful planning and perseverance to get this wonderful shot.</div>
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All week I kept wondering how I can write a post about this experience. Over the weekend I spent about 14 hours raptly listening to highly creative landscape architects and garden designers from all over the world. They talked about their ideas, their sources of inspiration and how they work.<br />
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It was the <a href="http://www.landscapeconference.com/">Australian Landscape Conference</a>. The theme was <i>Design with Nature: Reconnecting People and Place. </i>It was a big investment for me time and money wise, but it was worth it.<br />
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Most of the speakers talked about creating environments for humans that incorporate flora and fauna in an integrated way that relates to the broader landscape - the specific cultural, historical and physical contexts of a place.<br />
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The speakers are all highly influential people at the cutting edge of developing contemporary landscapes that take into account the challenges and opportunities the human species faces today and in the future. They are radical in their ideas and practice, questioning the role and meaning of the built environment and its relationship with the natural environment.<br />
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Here are a few of the visual highlights, taken from the Conference brochure.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/9k6p8UqWVjg">Professor Cassian Schmidt</a>, from Germany, combines perennials and grasses in myriad ways, to replicate natural plant habitats. He is exploring a formulaic planting scheme to help people cope with the challenge of using ever changing perennials.<br />
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<a href="http://bernardtrainor.com/">Bernard Trainor,</a> originally from Melbourne, now lives and works in California. He creates gardens that perfectly reflect their setting. He learned about California's native plants, rocks, soil, topography, architecture and history to design gardens that belong in their specific place.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.tcl.net.au/">Dr Kate Cullity</a>, leading Australian landscape architect, founding partner in TLC, designed (among other things) the magnificent Australian Garden, shown in a </span><a href="https://slowgardener.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/royal-botanic-garden-cranbourne.html" style="text-align: left;">post in this blog.</a><span style="text-align: left;"> She sees herself as poetically interpreting the landscape. The above photos show a private garden and a fernery.</span></div>
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<a href="http://noels-garden.blogspot.com.au/">Dr Noel Kingsbury</a>, British garden designer and prolific writer, promotes a naturalistic approach to planting design.<br />
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<a href="https://www.andysturgeon.com/">Andy Sturgeon</a>, award winning British garden designer, has completed projects around the world, public and private. He is passionate about design - not only gardens, but furniture, set design and architecture. He believes we have a lot to learn from history, and that the best materials in contemporary gardens are natural traditional materials like stone, concrete and timber.<br />
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<a href="http://urquijokastner.com/en/">Miguel Urquijo</a> is Spanish. He has developed gardens to be sustainable in a Mediteranean climate with dry, hot summers. Even in summer a garden needs to be beautiful, he believes. To achieve this, shrubs dominate, and perennials play only a small role.</div>
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<i>I took this on board in relation to my amateur garden, that tends to look pathetic in summer!</i></div>
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Outstanding major projects by <a href="http://www.gp-b.com/kathryn-gustafson/">Kathryn Gustafson</a>, North American landscape architect, can be seen globally. She sees herself as sculpting the landscape. She works closely with architects and other disciplines - designers, botanists, horticulturalists and engineers.</div>
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The above photo is part of the design of the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. Light and shadow is an important part of the design.</div>
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<a href="http://samcoxlandscape.com/">Sam Cox</a> is not an international figure like the other speakers. He is very influential locally. He works in Melbourne and its surrounds, and is passionate about the Australian bush. He is involved in both the design and construction of his projects. His naturalistic designs include natural looking swimming that merge seamlessly with the wider environment.</div>
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I haven't done justice to the many and varied achievements of these landscape people. Consider this to be a brief appetizer. If you want to continue the meal, just follow the links.</div>
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-14176840188621908332018-03-12T20:47:00.000+11:002018-03-12T20:47:56.524+11:00sources of hope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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How to maintain hope and optimism in a world where war and environmental destruction looms large? We're not likely to find hope by looking at prominent government policy makers and breakers and their shenanigans. Instead ... look down, down to earth, down to what's going on at local government and community level. There was a time, when I was younger - a more naive, optimistic time - when this was called <i>people power.</i><br />
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Meet Eli and Tomas, a married couple from Sydney. They designed the <a href="https://sharewaste.com/">ShareWaste Project</a> because<i> "we like this planet. Both hemispheres. So we're trying to keep it a nice place to live on (it's not like we have a spare one anyway)."</i><br />
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How the Share Waste Project works is ingenious and simple. It's a bit like matchmaking, bringing together people who have scraps they wish to recycle but no means to do it, with people living nearby who are composting, worm farming or keep chickens.<br />
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The result: diverting waste from landfill while getting to know the people around you.<br />
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Better still, no money changes hands in this process. Eli and Tomas don't make money out of the project, and it's free to register as a host or donor.<br />
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So far 3,835 composters have registered. There's a map that shows where they are, and they basically cover all the main population centres in Australia.<br />
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Other people, at local government level in Greater Melbourne, have been thinking what they can do to reduce waste that doesn't degrade, like balloons, glitter and single use plastics. Scientists have shown that these materials are polluting waterways and killing wildlife.<br />
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Darebin, Melbourne, Port Philip, Banyule and Monash councils have all voted to outlaw balloons and other single use plastics from public council land. It's an educative program, and it has a lot of community support. People who ignore the ban are simply asked to remove the balloons. No fine is issued.<br />
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<i>"We believe that taking a strong and practical stand for the environment, particularly for our wildlife and waterway health, is the right thing to do." </i> (Bernadene Voss, Port Philip mayor)<br />
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I feel better already, and hope you do too.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/visit-melbourne/attractions/guilfoyles-volcano">Guilfoyle's Volcano</a> - part of Melbourne's Royal Botanical Gardens - is an example of very special and remarkable garden design.<br />
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It was originally built in 1873, a reservoir to supply water for the Gardens. In the 1930s the Gardens were connected to the mains water supply and the site fell into disrepair.<br />
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In 2010 a reconstructed contemporary version of the original 'Volcano' was opened, designed by landscape architect Andrew Laidlaw.<br />
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Conscious of the challenges of climate change, Laidlaw incorporated Guilfoyle's Volcano into the Garden's water management system. It showcases cacti, succulents and other water efficient plants.<br />
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Sue Catminthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174929999542605112.post-79751638142641065472018-02-20T00:13:00.000+11:002018-02-20T00:13:55.041+11:00imagining life forms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The state school that my grandsons attend was fortunate to have an artist in residence for a whole term. The residence culminated in an Arts Festival called Unseen Forces. The exhibition showed the children's thinking and work in combining art and science.<br />
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The Grade 1 children designed and named flora and fauna, specifying their common and scientific names. These were combined into <i>A Field Guide of Delights.</i><br />
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Then they artfully arranged their creations within the natural landscape adjoining the school, placing them carefully so they could be seen and admired.</div>
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I see this little lizard around from time to time. In winter it hibernates in my study in between sheets of paper. During warm weather I glimpse it round the compost and other spots in the garden. The other night it dropped around to check out how I was doing.</div>
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I <i>thought</i> it was a common garden skink or pale-flecked garden sunskink (<i>Lampropholis guichenoti), </i>a species only found in Australia. In commenting on this post Serena Bates kindly corrected me. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Generally skinks have claws but geckos have little suckers on their feet so they can climb vertical surfaces including glass. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This is something skinks can't do." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Now I think this is likely a Marbled Gecko (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Christinus marmoratus), </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">a gecko species sometimes kept as pets. It's not an albino. I took the photo through the window at night and this was the result. I guess it would have been better to take it from outside in, but by then it would have scarpered.</span></div>
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Skinks and geckos are great to have around because they're cute and because they eat small insects like slugs, flies and cockroaches.</div>
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Just one flower on the Crabapple, looks like a rose. I don't recall it ever flowering in summer before.<br />
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A feather, exactly the same shape as the leaf, carefully stuck on. What creature did this? And which came first? Did it find the feather and then choose a suitable leaf? Since there are more leaves than feathers in the garden, I suppose that would have been the most likely method. And those red petals have been transferred from somewhere else. Never seen anything like this before, and couldn't find anything like it in Google images.<br />
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I sent a photo to the Melbourne Museum. Simon replied promptly. He thought it wasn't made by an insect at all, and was 'incidental', by which I understand 'accidental'. So maybe a couple of feathers drifted through the air and just happened to land on this leaf. Disappointing if true, because for a while I thought maybe I'd observed something scientifically significant. And I wanted to say something funny about feathering your own nest.<br />
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Many years ago a workmate gave me some Canna Lilies from his garden. He grew them with Plumbago and found they worked brilliantly together. But I was always wary of red because at the time I visualized the garden mainly in soft pastels, so I planted them in the back garden with the Ginger Lilies. I don't encourage them but they keep coming back every year, looking very dramatic.<br />
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This is blue fescue grass, a cultivar named Elijah Blue. It's a perfect garden plant, tidy but relaxed, predictable, reliable. And it's a brilliant blue, bluer than the ordinary blue fescue. I use it mostly to line paths. It doesn't seem to mind a fair bit of shade, either.<br />
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When my 4 year old grandson grows up, who knows what the world will be like? I'm sure he will grow up loving and protecting plants and nature. You can never start too young ... and he might have been happy even if it wasn't called the Jelly Bean plant (<i>Sedum rubrotinctum)</i>.</div>
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Bunnings has decided to stop selling Round Up and other pesticides containing neonicotinoids or glysophate. Yay! A victory for environmental activists around the world.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">When I started gardening in the early 80s I knew of the dangers of using toxic chemicals against insect pests. But everyone thought Round Up was different, was safe. It was said to be a systemic spray that you sprayed on the leaves, went down to the roots and killed the plant by depriving it of necessary growth hormones. It wasn't supposed to be toxic to insects at all.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">By the early 2000s reports about the toxicity of neonics had started to appear. Research showed that the worrying drop in bee populations could be attributed at least in part to these chemicals. This class of pesticide was shown to affect bees' navigation and immune systems, leading to colony death.</span><br />
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Research and political advocacy grew to a fever pitch, and now Bunnings has heard and acted. Bunnings seems to be such a responsible green corporation. It even said that the harm of these chemicals hadn't been scientifically proved, but it didn't want to take the risk. Yet the goal has been to remove the chemicals from the shelves by the end of 2018.<br />
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Is Bunnings giving us a dose of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing">greenwashing</a>? If it's such a risk, can't it done in less than a year? The European Union has been restricting use of pesticides harmful to bees since 2010. Here in Australia there are no such bans.<br />
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At the moment the Victorian government is financing some big infrastructure projects in Melbourne. It announced it was going to remove 223 mature trees to make way for the new underground railway line. There was an uproar and they worked out ways to reduce the number of trees cut down. But there are still a lot going - more than 70 trees.<br />
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To sweeten the pill they said at the end of the project they would plant twice the number of trees. As if it is possible to replace elm trees planted in the late 19th century and London Plane trees planted in the 1960s!<br />
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The city needs better public transport services, but the harm done to the environment by the loss of these trees is huge. Those trees provided habitat and food to support the wildlife in our city. They provided shade cover and filtered traffic fumes and noise. They improved our mental health.<br />
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There were other ways to design the tunnel in order to preserve these trees. They could have dug a deeper tunnel, or located the station in another place. These alternatives might have been less convenient and more expensive. This choice of design shows the government does not understand or value the tremendous benefits of these old established trees.<br />
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We nature advocates have got a tough job on our hands influencing government policies like these.<br />
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1. When the spring annuals have disappeared the 'bones' of the garden become prominent, clearly showing me which plants need to be cut back because they don't look good any more, and what gaps need to be filled.<br />
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2. It is the summer holidays when I have the most time to garden.<br />
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We gardeners are supposed to be patient. If I show a bit of restraint, it's with a big effort. So far this summer I have managed with great difficulty to resist buying new plants or moving old plants.<br />
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Pruning, when applied to some shrubs, feels more like sculpting than just chopping back. The Plumbago growing on the front fence is mainly a chopping back job. The five Leptospermum morisonnii 'White Opal', planted around 15 years ago, gradually grew into a green leafy screen that concealed the back part of the garden. But it started looking scrappy, so a few days ago I took a risk and thinned out the branches. It was a double risk:<br />
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1. I never really know what I'm doing until it's done, and if I don't like the result I've found you can't put branches back.<br />
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2. We've already had one very hot day and we're coming up to more 40+ degree days (Celsius). <i>That's 104+ Fahrenheit!</i><br />
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The same thing applies to a group of Sticky Boobiallas (<i>Myoporum petiolatum</i>). I did my sculpture thing, and now they don't look so nice, a bit weird, but I think they look<i> potentially</i> elegant and graceful and I think the screen will grow back.<br />
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The thing is, I feel in sync with these plants. They're old friends, well established, and I trust them not to die. Already there are sprouts appearing on the Boobialla. But still it's a risk, with lots of really hot days to come.<br />
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You can never be sure what will happen in the future. Change is a risk. But then so is trying to stop change.<br />
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This sculpture is massive. I quite like this rather strange, surreal view of a bit of it.<br />
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<i> Cones</i> is made of polished stainless steel. I could spend ages looking at this, exploring different views.<br />
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I'm not normally into selfies, but in this case found it irresistible.<br />
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Rodin was important in the development of modern French sculpture and also for his quotes. Here are two of my favourites: <i>Patience is also a form of action </i>and <i> The nude alone is well dressed.</i><br />
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The setting of this sculpture over the water is just perfect.<br />
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Nakaya is a Japanese artist, the first to work with fog as a sculptural medium.<br />
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<i>Heads from the North</i> is a memorial to those affected by events following an unsuccessful military coup in Indonesia in 1965. The artist himself was an innocent victim in the mass killings. When he was 8 his father was among the many who disappeared at the time. Barely holding their heads above water, the 66 sculptures signify lives lost and ravaged at this time.<br />
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Pukumani poles have great significance in Tiwi culture. They ensure that the spirit of the deceased is released from the body into the spirit world. The word <i>pukumani </i>means <i>taboo</i> or <i>dangerous</i> in the Tiwi language.</div>
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