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24.01.2022 Wind swept Balga ballerinas I just pruned in Waikiki. They look like zoulou dancers. I love them! The name "Balga" was adopted in 1954 and is the Noongar word for the indigenous grass tree Xanthorrhoea preissii.

23.01.2022 This is the thrown away recyclables I collected in a small street corner shrubby garden bed in Leda! Frightening but... challenging (for us all)

23.01.2022 Meet the locals! I look after the fruit trees of an organic orchard in Mundijong. We planted a good variety of native trees and shrubs to strengthen the biodiversity and create protective windbreaks. The place is teamed with birds and all sorts of creepy crawlers. I love this healthy environment and its inhabitants: a resting huntsman spider on the ambush on a fig tree. Despite being hairy, scary and speedy, these remarkable spiders are harmless and are natural insect exterminators in your garden, as well as in your house.

23.01.2022 Megan in action at the Quenda Medina Bush Park on Sunday. We want to thank everyone who participated in the planting. Beautiful rain, rising moon and great crew!

23.01.2022 Olivier has been pruning my roses for the past 12 years. He does an amazing job. He certainly has the magic touch! My rose bushes create the most beautiful display of roses each year. Olivier puts a great deal of time and care into the pruning and he is very particular about achieving the right shape for each rose bush. After pruning, Olivier leaves the garden clean and tidy and I I would highly recommend him for all your rose pruning and rose care needs. He is very passionate about his work, gives excellent value for money and great advice! Nydia, Bertram

22.01.2022 Meet the locals! These fascinating stick insects or Phasmes are peaceful vegeterians who like to keep to themselves. They are masters of disguise and in fact, so good at hiding that they have trouble finding each other... for you know what! The biggest stick insect in Australia can grow to 56cm (22 inches!!)

21.01.2022 Introducing the new cardboard based triangular tree guard from Greenguard in our planting sites on the beach and in the bushland. It is Australian made and 100% biodegradable! It is designed as well to allow a better air and water circulation. Eventually, the green plastic guards will become something of the past, as they are becoming a hazard for the environment.

21.01.2022 Just a reminder that to obtain a beautiful new growth like this one on a Cycad revoluta (or Sago palm), apply a granular fertiliser for palms with extra manganese sulphate. Cycads have been referred to as living fossils because these amazing endangered plants have existed before the dinosaurs once dominating Earth's forests, along with conifers and relatives of the unique Gingko biloba, and have remained essentially unchanged.

21.01.2022 The different type of plants on the newly completed pine frame bolted on the fence in Safety Bay. See the photos of the back garden before completion of work in the above post.

20.01.2022 Quite happy to see how this landscaping job turned out! The advanced Dragon trees (Dracaena draco) and Cordylines, among others, blended in really well with the massive moss rocks. The locally made rusted look steel rims around the "Evergreen Ashes" (Fraxinus griffithii) add a different creative look and complete the easy maintenance of this garden in Rockingham.

19.01.2022 This is how a properly managed Ivy creeper can create a natural green privacy fence. We all know the colour green for its harmonious and calm feelings Minimal watering - TLC - Maximum result. A lot more inspiring and beautiful to look at than the plastic leaf hedge screens available on the market now!

17.01.2022 Meet the locals! A moaning frog sooo comfy on my hand! Also called burrowing frogs, these wonderful creatures spend dry times deep underground sometimes for years, until a good soaking softens the ground. The scientific name "Heleioporus eyrei" is derived from the first European person -John Eyre- to walk the Nullabor Plain with his Aboriginal guide in 1841 If their long rising low mournful moan (which their name comes from), are disturbing your sleep, just gently flood their burrow with water at night to convince them to move away next door! Frogs drink and breathe through their sensitive skin and are "indicator species" of degraded air, water, or earth around them. Please avoid using chemicals and non organic fertilisers in and around your whole garden.

17.01.2022 Little Pixie, the exuberant brown honeyeater felt so good among the phutukawas greenery at Rhoda's (his adopted mum). He came for dinner and never left.. and decided to stay to supervise the ironing!

17.01.2022 An old lovely customer of mine wanted to give me a review of my work. Being not familiar with computers, even LESS with Facebook.. Eric did the old good hand written fashion way, and asked me to take a photo of the review and put it out to the real world! Blessings

17.01.2022 You've probably seen this tall tough grass. It's the African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), introduced to Australia in the 1900's. This nasty piece of work is a very serious weed often found in bushland, road and residential verges, presenting an increased fuel load and a serious fire hazard!! It readily out-competes native plants, can alter nutrient cycling and is a major threat to the conser...vation values of Banksia woodlands. It regrows quickly after fire and this is devastating for the native animals that rely on natural ecosystems for their survival. It is very hard to dig it out as you can see the amazing root system on the photo, and the plant is a prolific seeder! We are reintroducing in our tree planting some native grasses like the coast spear-grass (Austrostipa flavescens) or the prickly conostylis (Conostylis aculeata), once we've carefully manually remove the root systems of the lovegrass. (photo no.1 courtesy of NSW Department of Primary Industries) (photos no.2, 3 & 4 Blue Tongue Sustainable Gardens) See more

15.01.2022 We are happy to have a new arrival to the bandicoot family in our garden in Medina. His name is Quenda (from the Noongar language) after our Kwinda Bush Park ongoing revegetation project. Funny fella though.. maybe he hasn't been taught by his parents yet, but being nocturnal, he keeps coming out of his wood pile during the day!!

14.01.2022 An example of root growth when pruning our 30 year old Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) who travelled around Australia in our bus! It is important to prune equally the foliage, branches and roots of a Bonsai, especially at the moment during the waxing moon (or growing moon!) This one is deciduous (a plant naturally loosing it's leaves during the dormant season in winter)

14.01.2022 This is what a verge can look like when properly established with water saving native plants, drippers polypipe reticulation and "forrest floor" mulch. The result is colour, birds, butterflies etc.. in a sustainable way, instead of a thirsty demanding lawn! Done this job in Baldavis, with veggie planters and fruit trees at the back of the property.

13.01.2022 I love the natural limestone, and working with it! Great for raised vegetables garden beds

11.01.2022 The following pictures show the cut healthy roots of the Bonsai. Then a badly root bound plant as an example! Amazingly, the roots keep growing in circles and can eventually lead to poor health and even death of the plant!

11.01.2022 Having a common Colorbond fence you want to transform into a wall of vegetation and flowers? Well, to avoid your plants being fried from our WA summer heat and glare of the metal, you can create a space of flowing air between your fence and plants by building a pine frame bolted on to the Colorbond. To add the cherry on the cake, spray paint the whole thing (as visible on the following photos and video), with a good quality UV paint. I have a soft spot for the green olive m...att colour to have flowers and greenery standing out! These are the different steps you can follow from before and after pictures: treated pine, any type of mesh, 19mm polypipe with individual stake pot jets for tough fast growing creepers (Hibbertia scandens & Pandorea jasminoides, 7 months old in the photos) and forrest floor mulch. Below are the photos before the frame, and different stages of the work in Safety Bay. Then a video of the work. Can't wait to see the result! See more

09.01.2022 Meet our three happy girls: Canelle, Noisette & Muscade (Cinnamon, Hazelnut & Nutmeg). Their most favourite food of all time is kale, kale and kale.. originally for us from our veggie garden!

06.01.2022 I planted a favourite West-Australian flowering gum (Corymbia ficifollia previously known as Eucalyptus ficifolia) today in Wellard. Interesting to know that this is the 'Baby Scarlet' 4 metres tall grafted variety, perfect for small yards and great for attracting birds, bees and insects

06.01.2022 New lawn resting snif-snif area for two lovely doggies If you would like something this for your own garden (crazy paving and reticulated yum yum "Sir Walter" buffalo turf), please don't hesitate to contact me for a quote! Blue Tongue Sustainable Gardens

02.01.2022 The mulching today with Megan was hard in the heat, but rewarded with our first bloom on a Banksia planted by our community revegetation group in Medina! These new cute yellow cones (or follicles), are from a special 6 years old candlestick Banksia (Banksia attenuata) or biara, as known by the Noongar Aboriginal people. This Banksia is an important native food source (nectar, seeds, grubs), for the Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, a magnificent bird native to South-Western Australia and found nowhere else in the world! Due to the loss of valuable habitat of our native flora and a shortage of nesting hollows through land clearing for urbanisation, Carnaby's are now endangered and their population continues to decline. But one day, you'll hear their cries first and then you'll see them... so Majestic!