Along with diligent watering, a way to increase the success of planting is to use water crystals. Water crystals are polymers that hold water for plants to absorb. They are biodegradable and nontoxic. Michelle gives some tips on how to use them in your garden.
Hot dry weather is a good time to see how plants are standing up to local conditions and Pandorea jasminoides with a common name of Bower of Beauty and a white variety sold as Princess Di, is hard to beat. It's no wonder landscapers use this local native plant as a dependable species in Noosa parks and gardens.
NICA's Urban Wildlife Gardens program is here to help you find answers and introduce you to the creatures that live in your garden. Sit back and enjoy the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, knowing that your garden contributes to biodiversity in our region.
Stephanie's photographs follow the natural regeneration of vegetation after the fires around Cooroibah in November 2019.
Lake Cooroibah residents were treated to the rare sight of a koala in one of their Eucalypts following the recent fires. The koala rescue team set up a fence around the group of trees, installed a camera, set a trap and waited. On the second night she came down, thought the trap was a gateway to safety and was caught and relocated to dense bushland some distance away.
