We drove down the centre and top sections of the CSR in September 2007.
Here are a few videos of the sand dunes we had to cross.
We drove down the centre and top sections of the CSR in September 2007.
Here are a few videos of the sand dunes we had to cross.
Well I’m sure many travellers, like us, have an interest in native flora and we have often grown our own plants from seeds collected on our travels around Australia. Yes, it’s a fairly loose connection but if you are not that interested you can always scroll on down or navigate around the article using the links in the side bar on the right. But for those still interested, please read on…
Help is needed, it shouldn’t be like this.
This forest in north western Victoria seems to be missing something.
You could see the wood for the trees here, if there were any.
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Greening Australia wants us to plant 1 billion trees by the year 2020 and I can’t do it all alone. At 10 trees a weekend it would take me 38 million years, but we can at least make a start. Australian natives are quick growing, very drought resistant and require no expensive fertilisers, in fact they hate fertilisers. That’s why they’ve become weed trees in some countries (Israel and in California). It was interesting to see neatly manicured bottle brush (Callistemon) being used as street trees in Beverly Hills. Natives come in all shapes, sizes and colours for all types of environments from a small suburban backyard to a large scrub block.
Franklin Riverside, Tasmania
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You can grow the seeds from Grass Trees but they do take 20 years to grow 20 cm.
These in the Warumbungles are hundreds of years old. |
Our block is outlined in white. rural living but close (too close) to “all facilities”.
The lower 10 acres and the area around the house have been planted with home grown seedlings.
The central area is a bushfire buffer zone kept clear by neighbours sheep, in theory. It’s too steep to slash.
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