Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
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Murray
Horticulturist, Permaculturist, Poet, Woodworker, sometimes manager of projects.
For: a cleaner, greener, safer world.
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My daughter took a photo of a bird. New Holland Honeyeater I think. #birds
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Well worth the 17minutes
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Another Pink Cocky (sorry - there will be lots!). Just such beautiful colours - and always with the happy faces!
Desert Rose, Adenium obesum. Not actually a rose but pretty as anything. This specimen was in someone else's collection, I asked about a cutting but have since learned they are better propagated by seed, if this flower produces a seed pod I may be in luck. Caution- all parts of the plant are toxic.
#plants #flowers #bloomscrolling
Legitimate "profit maximisation behaviour" - it just rolls off the tongue.
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Roadside verge spotted sun orchids (Thelymitra ixioides) near Narrabarba, NSW. Usually quite a few out here in early October but only a couple of scattered plants flowering this year in dryer conditions - mostly with fairly typical blue flowers.
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra
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Yesterday I was going through old photos from the village in Eastern Bohemia where my grandmother was born, and in the context of the recent record floods, I was intrigued by the ones where our ancestors in the 1950s were "solving" the water problem: they drained the meadows, straightened the riverbeds and filled in the natural meanders.
Today, we cannot be surprised that the landscape has little capacity to hold water which then immediately rushes down into the valley.
This is the third or fourth Leptospermum nanum rubrum that I have planted, nice to see this one flowering, I just need to keep it alive through its first West Australian summer! Plant losses are a normal part of gardening, sometimes it is right plant wrong spot, sometimes just unlucky, sometimes just the wrong plant. I hope I have the right spot for this one. Not that there is any shortage of Leptospermum sp in our garden but I do like this one.
@iwein its sad because OM does an excellent job of capturing and releasing water. That is a function of swamps and wetlands in the environment.
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A good (not perfect but good) illustration of the importance of organic matter in the soil. This pile of RTP (recycled tree pruning) mulch sat on the driveway for 4-5 days some of which it rained heavily. The organic matter soaked up the water and is now releasing it. Organic matter in the soil acts in much the same way. Water captured in the soil this way is available for life a much better approach than funneling it into storm drains and out to sea. #permaculture #gardening
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β§ splendid fairywren β§
The splendid fairywren (Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid...
#Maluridae #WesternAustralia #CargelligoStateForest #Australia #Queensland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_fairywren
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Dawn on Lavender Federation Trail, South Australia. Indian summer, wide open paddocks waiting for rain. Driest Feb to May in a century
#silentsunday #climatechange
@reedmideke As an Australian and somewhat of an amateur bullshitter myself I take umbrage at this characterisation.
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