1 Acacia cardiophylla (Wyalong Wattle) Because of its profuse yellow flowers and attractive silvery foliage. 2 Lomandra longifolia 'Tanika' Because of its overall toughness...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Frosty Areas
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Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Shady Areas
1 Asplenium australasicum (Bird's Nest Fern) Because of its lush glossy unique foliage and shape, and easy care nature 2 Viola hederacea (Native Violet) Because of...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Pots
1 Anigozanthos 'Bush Pearl' Because of the non-stop awesome flowering 2 Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Cockatoo' Because of its amazingly textured flowers over many months on a...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Decorative Foliage
1 Agonis flexuosa 'Jervis Bay After Dark' Because of its amazing dark-purple pendulous foliage and growth habit. 2 Callistemon 'All Aglow' Because of its...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Perfume And Scent
1 Boronia heterophylla (Red Boronia) Because of its bright-pink bell-shaped sweetly scented flowers 2 Backhousia citriodora (Lemon Myrtle) Because of the wonderfully...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants for Cut Flowers
1 Anigozanthos flavidus (Tall Kangaroo Paw) Because of their unique flower type in a wide range of colours 2 Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower) Because of its wonderfully...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants for attracting Wildlife
1 Anigozanthos 'Landscape Gold' Birds love the nectar rich flowers. It's interesting to see how adroitly they perch on the slender stems. 2 Grevillea 'Moonlight' Large nectar...
Angus’s Top Ten Australian Plants For Colour
1 Xerochrysum 'Cockatoo' Because of their amazingly textured cream coloured flowers over many months of the year 2 Scaevola aemula 'Aussie Crawl' Because of the mass...
What are the best types of earth worms for my worm farm?
Tiger and red worms - composting champions! One of the critical parts of worm farming is to get the right species for the job. There are a couple of commonly used species, namely the tiger and red worms that are so efficient they have become known by gardeners as...
How do I know if my worm farm has the right moisture content?
One of the keys to a successful worm farm lies in maintaining the correct balance of water and air in the system. Worms are very sensitive to drying out as their skin is designed to be constantly moist. Too little moisture will kill earthworms but they also need to be...
What Do Earthworms Really Love To Eat?
There are times when you want to rapidly build your population of earthworms. Consequently, there are some foods that are truly spectacular for helping our subterranean friends breed to their heart’s content. In my experience soft fruits that have begun to decay are...
Composting Pet Manure
We spend lots of money on pet food and dogs in particular create mountains of droppings which either get put into bags and sent to landfill, or sit on the ground and often get washed into waterways where the nutrients can cause detrimental effects such as algal blooms...
How To Keep Your Worm Farm Cool In Summer
Keeping your worm farm at the optimum temperature Summer is a time for composters to get busy as microbial activity is at its peak then. After twenty years of running a worm farm at home I can honestly say it is one of the easiest ways to compost your kitchen scraps...
What Are The White Maggots In Your Worm Farm?
A not uncommon experience with home worm farms is lifting the lid to discover a writhing mass of maggots, usually white in colour with a segmented body. Whilst your initial reaction may be one of horror and disgust it is nowhere near as bad as it looks!! Most likely...
Vinegar Flies and Compost Buckets
What are those little flies around the compost bucket? Do you sometimes reach a point with your kitchen compost bucket where you experience a mass of little flies taking off when you disturb the bucket? Chances are you have acquainted yourself with vinegar flies...
Composting Weeds
Can I Compost Weeds? Every garden has its very own crop of weeds depending on the soil, climate and previous history to name a few factors. One solution to weeds is to see them as valuable organic matter that can be used to improve your soil. The easiest to compost...
The microbes in your compost heap
A compost heap is a microbiological festival of organisms that are vital to breaking down various organic materials. The most prolific are fungi, bacteria and actinomycetes and these are the most important groups of the many species that can be found in a compost...
Growing Kangaroo Paws
This article includes excerpts from Angus's book Creating an Australian Garden This remarkable group of Australian plants embody many of the qualities that make our native plants so distinctive. Their vibrant, almost iridescent flower colours are combined with a...
Wildlife Habitat Stepping Stones Project
Stepping Stones - A Great Sydney Project Creating Wildlife Habitat We are lucky in Australia to have some great areas of natural bush adjoining our towns and cities, which are home to our own unique plants and animals. But as our cities grow, these spaces are...
Austromyrtus
Austromyrtus, the midgen berry, is perhaps the sweetest of the Australian bush fruits and is well worth growing for that reason alone. For the gardener it also has a host of desirable traits. Beautiful bronze new growth, a low growing and mounding habit, the ability...