Bromeliad Society of Australia – Patricia Walters_Ikebana using Bromeliad Blooms
The Bromeliad Society of Australia will hold their next meeting at George Bell Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground on Saturday, 14 September with plant sales commencing at 11am followed by the meeting at 12noon. Access is via the Showground entrance off Showground Road into Doran Drive, Castle Hill, with plenty of parking on site. Guest speaker […]
SPRING CLIVIA SHOW
Show Chairman John Layton anticipates close to three hundred specimen plants will be on display including latest breeding results. These will include green, lime, lemon, pink, peach, variegated, stunning bronze as well as bi-colour and dwarf specimens. Featured this year will be stunning red-bronze specimens of ‘Moonlight Bronze’ as well as pink edged European peach. Well […]
Still Creek Landcare – Can Your Garden Help?
I had an idea recently on how our gardens can do more, a lot more, while giving you more pleasure, increasing your knowledge and at the same time helping to save Threatened Species in our area. After reading an Article ‘Why You Should Let Nature Take Over Your Lawn’ from Popular Mechanics I realized how […]
Warrah Farm Shop
‘FERVENT ENTHUSIASM’ is probably a good way to describe the mood of the past month here at Warrah Farm. We have begun our transition to the preparation phase for Spring, which included welcoming new faces to the team. Young farmers with a great passion for organic and biodynamic market gardening, Cameron and Steve are excited […]
Bromeliad Society Of Australia – Mini Fair With Peter Tristram Bromeliad Guru | 9am – 3pm On Sat 10 August
The Bromeliad Society of Australia will hold a very special event at the Federation Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground on Saturday, 10 August commencing at 9am until 3pm. A Mini Fair featuring rare and interesting bromeliads from Peter Tristram, Forest Drive Nursery at Repton, NSW and recognised as a guru in the Bromeliad world. A great […]
Free Native Plants!
Once again, a generous donor has enabled Still Creek Landcare to offer free local native plants to landowners who live in Hornsby Council’s rural area, or Hills Shire along Old Northern Road. We want the plants to go to people who are clearing privet or lantana or other weeds and who wish to revegetate with […]
Galston Garden Club
While most of the State was engrossed with cockroaches and cane toads and which one would win the State of Origin (yay NSW!), at the July meeting of the Galston Garden Club, members were given hints and tips to encourage bird life into their gardens. Our guest speaker was Cathy Goswell from the Cumberland Bird […]
Magic in the Making!
Galston High School students have been hard at work rehearsing for the upcoming musical, The Wizard of Oz, with tickets now on sale! With an all-singing, all-dancing cast, the students are putting the final polish on their parts. A set that that transforms the school hall into the land of Oz is receiving its final […]
Warrah, Living Learning Growing – 50 Years 1969-2019
We are still enjoying looking back over the past 50 years of our history here at Warrah Society. Pictured above is one of our Farm cows from 1979! Cows with horns like this are a common site on biodynamic properties like Warrah Farm at Harris Road in Dural. Everyone probably knows that cows play an […]
STILL CREEK LANDCARE – CORRIDORS SUPPORTING DIVERSITY: PLANTS, WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE.
We’ve heard the alarms sounding about the loss of biodiversity, accelerating our plant and animal species toward extinction. We also hear of plants and animals making comebacks, like the evidence of Koalas returning to Maroota and Marramarra. We have hope and we have strategies to boost and support the Biodiversity we have left. Native Plant […]
