Native bee attracting plants
Guest Post by Maree McCarthy NO. 1 RULE: KEEP THEIR ENVIRONMENT POISON-FREE! (Remember – they are insects!) NO. 2 RULE: PRESERVE BUSHLAND (Biodiversity is the key!) Allowing hoofed animals access, and removing dead wood and trees will soon wipe them out. Here is a list of plants to feed and attract native bees. • Austromyrtus dulcis (Midyim Berry) 30cm x 1m. Shade or Sun. Attractive pink new growth and small fruit that tastes like... Read More
Native Bees, Wildlife and Native Plants . . . so what’s in it for me?
Teddy Bear Bee Guest Post: Maree Mc Carthy – … supporting earth to sing her songs! In an island continent such as Australia, with soils and organisms evolved distinctly separate from Europe, its great to watch the local ecosystems and see how we can ‘fit in’ and call this place ‘home’. The wonderful part is that native plants, insects and all the other things that have evolved together over an amazingly long... Read More
Two beautiful statues bring silence to the moment
Charioteer from Motya, Sicily These are to my eyes two of the most beautiful statues. Dancing satyr of Mazara del Vallo The stone one, The charioteer from Motya, Sicily, is probably of a slave or servant as the free or noble folk typically rode their chariots while naked; the sensuous human form evoked below the sculpted cloth is breathtaking for me. The bronze – Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo – is about 2400 years old and was made... Read More
Plastic in fish, birds, air, water and . . . us
Sampling the ocean for plastic – photo by Tim Silverwood After seeing some sea water sampled from the middle of Earth’s oceans by Tim Silverwood I asked Tim to let me have some notes for my blog and here they are. I was sickened at the thought of fish, birds and ourselves getting plastic in our lungs, blood, organs and much of what we depend upon to live. Until I spoke to Tim and saw his samples and research I had no idea how widespread... Read More
Honey harvest at my place coming up
Anticipation builds here and among those who have bee hives made from the hive that came here four years ago. In a few weeks we’ll harvest the honey from my hive. Tim Heard, the designer of the hive, is coming from Brisbane to show me and some other hive owners how to harvest the honey. I’ll have photos, a video and a ‘how to do it’ of the honey harvest on this blog soon after the honey harvest. Am... Read More
