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Galston Open Garden Weekend

“L’hirondelle” (Piper)

19th, 20th & 21st October With the October Open Gardens weekend fast approaching final preparations are being made to the gardens. We would like to thank all the garden owners for allowing the garden club to present their gardens & for all the hard work that goes into preparing their gardens at their very best, […]

Budgerigar Society of NSW Inc.

Hills Branch members were prominent amongst the exhibitors at the Budgerigar Display / Show held between the 20th and 22nd July at the National Orchid Show, located at South Windsor Sporting Stadium. Whilst the Orchids attracted a great numbers of people all weekend, there was consistent interest in the Budgerigars on display. During the time […]

Nature is sometimes very clever!

Imagine a seed that actually screws itself into the soil to give it the best chance of growing. Now that is cunning! There are some local native grasses are called speargrasses. One of these is Oat Speargrass (Anisopogon avenaceous), that grows up to 1m tall. When young, the seeds start off green and straight, but […]

Warrah SPRING FAIR – Saturday 8th September 2018

With the last frost gone and the nursery full of spring sowings of basil, cucumber, zucchini, tomatoes and more, we look forward to a change in the rhythm and colour of the farm. We will be applying our biodynamic preparations prior to tilling the land and getting our first sector of beds ready to receive […]

Now Carrs Bush is even better!

Carrs Bush is an area of glorious bushland in the bottom corner of Fagan Park. At least most is glorious – a small section near Bayfield Road is badly affected by nasty weeds like privet, blackberry and bridal creeper. Three years ago Still Creek Landcare got a $40,000 grant to attack some of these weeds. […]

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Brackenridge

On a crisp and chilly day a number of club members rugged up and readied themselves for a guided walk through the St Ives Native Flower Nursery and surrounding bushland. We started with a bracing hot cup of tea or coffee and homemade slice, and then we were off. At first we couldn’t “see” the […]

BROMELIAD SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

The Bromeliad Society of Australia will hold their next meeting at the Federation Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground on Saturday, 8 September with plant sales commencing at 11am prior to the meeting. Access is via the new Showground entrance off Showground Road into Doran Drive, Castle Hill with plenty of parking on site. Guest speaker will […]

Still Creek Landcare – Please don’t take away my home

In the last 40 years, 75% of the world’s flying insects and 81% of freshwater fish and water-based animals have disappeared. 99% of Australian oyster reefs are now dead. Shocking figures like these lead scientists to think we are in the 6th mass extinction in the last 500 million years. When the smaller species die, […]

News from Warrah Biodynamic Farm

For Warrah Society as whole, and especially for Warrah Biodynamic Farm, the Winter Solstice that has just passed provided the opportunity to reflect on the light and life that continues to thrive in the dead of winter. Biodynamic farming is done naturally without the use of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides or synthetic fertilisers. We work with […]

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Guest speaker Brian Chapman with the Power Planter.

A cold July night…. State of Origin…. & where is everybody? Well at Garden Club of course having a hoot of a night at our July meeting! What a good number turned up to hear our guest speaker Brian Chapman of Power Planter, and did he keep members in stitches of laughter with his easy […]