#wildlifefriendly

2025-10-14

Shiny new barbed wire fences are going up around the Bellingen and Gleniffer area:

"Barbed wire is a hidden killer of Aussie wildlife. Gliders, bats, owls and wallabies die tangled every year. Researchers have long documented sugar and squirrel gliders caught on barbed wire in roadside vegetation...Replacing barbed wire with plain fencing is a quick win for nature. It’s simple, cheap, lifesaving."
>>
lyrebirddreaming.com/post/barb

Conservation fencing >>
bct.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/f
#fences #traps #fencing #BarbedWire #entanglement #biodiversity #WildlifeFriendly #conservation #gliders #BellingenShire #roads

2025-07-30

Oh, I have been lazy again with my social media …
This border is planted with ornamental grasses, biennials and perennials - and also home to self sown biennials (Evening primrose, Teasels behind in the grass meadow) and annuals (Poppies, Corncockle). The grasses glow in the summer morning light.

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The photograph shows a densely planted border running horizontally across in the foreground. Plants are ornamental grasses, also Echinacea purpurea, and self sown Evening primrose, poppies and corncockle, which have already gone to seed.
Mid distance left the trunk of a tall ornamental cherry tree and centre a stone bird bath.
The background is in the shade of tall hedges.
2025-07-21

The bottom of the garden. Confusingly, the garden slopes *up* towards the bottom.
Bottom left the pond. The brick construction on the right is what we call the folly. Bees, other insects, birds and pond dwelling individuals love it. So do I.
Planted to feel and look natural, wild, full and overflowing. Weeds a.k.a. wildflowers are welcome.

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A densely planted area in the garden - flowering perennials, ornamental grasses and weeds. I am sorry but there is too much jungle to describe in detail.
2025-07-06

Colourburst on a grey, drizzly day in this corner of a border:
Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.

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Densely planted end of a border: Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.
In the background on the left the light blue painted corner of the garden shed.
2025-07-03

I love Hollyhocks! They are beautiful, tall, robust, unruly, bawdy and keep going all summer. Bees and other insects love them and behave as if they were shopping for recreational drugs.
This plant lives in an area in the garden called the Garden of Delights.
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The photograph shows the flowers on a Hollyhock: White petals with pink edges and a lemon-yellow centre.
2025-07-01

A Phlomis in a border in the garden. Most likely a Phlomis russeliana or Turkish sage.
The many seedheads are from just one plant. Widespread now but native to the area that is now Turkey and Northern Greece. Bees and other insects love it.
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The photograph shows the many globular seedheads (still green, just after flowering) on a Phlomis plant.
2025-06-27

As I said before, happiness is an overflowing garden. Here, the paved path from the patio to the pond is becoming almost impassable. As I walk, the plants grab me and touch my skin. Beautiful!
Again - Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
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A paved path snakes into the distance. On either side, plants - perennials, wildflowers and shrubs - are growing over the edges. In the distance, a large spruce tree creates a dark backdrop.
2025-06-25

Happiness is an overflowing garden. At this time of the year, I cannot walk through the garden without the plants grabbing me and touching my skin. The garden is overflowing, difficult to navigate, easy to lose yourself in and hide from everyone else. Beautiful!
Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
‣ Upright. Click to see all.

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In the middle distance, two tall ornamental grasses separated by a narrow strip of ‘lawn’, i.e. grass. The tall grasses are touching at the top.
In the foreground, dark red flowering hollyhocks, blue flowering Salvia nemorosa and self sown marguerites, which are going over,
In the distance a mass of green from a bamboo and various shrubs.
2025-06-24

Exciting: Discovered a new wildflower in the garden, which I think we never had before. It appears to be a Pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis.
Another individual, who arrived on the wind and decided to stay.
Apparently native and widespread in England and Wales. A favourite with butterflies and moths.
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The photograph shows the purple-pink flowerhead of a Pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis. The flowerhead is composed of many tiny individual flowers.
2025-06-10

Following on from yesterday’s post on the subject of the romantic garden, here is another one. Mysterious, too - what happened to the wearer of the dress and why did she discard it at all?
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A white dress with a lace border is draped across a “field” of flowering marguerites.

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