Planting guides and tips
These resources should help you when choosing the best locally native plants for your bushcare site or garden. You can also visit the "Plants To... 
Are natural areas REALLY more biodiverse?
An interesting question. The reason I was asking myself this was because I had observed that when I sampled good natural areas with lots of native...
Removal of Wild Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Wild Taro is a fast-growing aquatic weed with dark reddish purple stalks and very large, arrowhead-shaped, dark-green, velvety leaves. The leaves are...
Activities in a watercourse
Regardless of the ownership, the Department of Natural Resources and Water requires prior approval before any activities can be undertaken within a...
Cat's Claw Control
Cat’s Claw Creeper (Macfadyena unguis-cati) is an exotic weed vine that threatens Brisbane’s waterways and bushland areas. In a bid to target a...
How to make the most of the dew
I found before I put my first tank in that we would get up to 60 L a night as condensation from the iron roof.
When I put the tank in, this would...
A Bit About Beetles In Brisbane
These notes were the text of a talk given by Dr Geoff Monteith to SOWN in 2006, covering many of the interesting recent discoveries in Brisbane...
Drought Tolerant Enoggera Species
The SOWN web site has gone to great personal and professional lengths to produce, at the request of the SOWN management committee and countless...
My favourite plant begins with "A"
I'm sure there are a lot more plants beginning with A than with X or Z. Those poor cousin letters down at the bottom of the alphabet hardly get a mention.
Lets look at the Zeds in Enoggera...
Sneaky Weeds
Keep an eye out for these sneaky weeds around your local patch. Several of these species have have already infiltrated Enoggera and Ithaca Creeks in...
True friends, False Enemies
There are a lot of plants, many of them extremely important, that are in danger of being pulled as weeds because they don't have the classic "native...
Taming The Turkey ( the "lets get along" method)
I have had a high degree of success in keeping turkeys out of my garden beds by turning a portion of my yard into a turkey playground, i.e. a carpet...
Vera's bird list 1981-83
Ibis
Pied Currawong
Magpie
Pied Butcherbird
Pee-wee
Crow
Spangled Drongo
Koel (male, black, red eye)
Koel (female, black head, other markings...
Rainfall
2006 was the year of the "green drought". We can see this anecdotal reference borne out by rain records from Fred Moffett's gauge at Yoorala Street, The Gap.
At 732mm, 2006 was the third driest year in the last two and a half decades, following 1993 (697mm), 2000 (589mm), and 2002...
Butterflies and friends in the Enoggera Creek Catchment - by Frank Jordan
Brisbane Forest Park catchments have a long history of naturalist excursions since settlement.
On July 16th 1887 the Field Naturalists section of...
Lantana Substitutes
We all know by observation, or by being told (as we were at the recent "Hands on Habitat" forum) that lantana can provide valuable habitat for small...
Three Reasons why the drought is your friend!
First of all, the drought kills weeds. Those soft, fleshy, water-hungry weeds soon wither and die when it gets really dry. On the other hand, you see...
EPA Publications
A gathering of a small number of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publications that might be of interest to SOWN members.
SOWN Plant Guard Water Saver
The SOWN Plant Guard Water Saver has been designed to protect young plants from wind, weeds and herbicide over-spray.
Thought Mail
from robertwhyteus
to richardharding317H99
DATE: 26 October 3003
TIME: 4.34pm EGT (Eastern Galactic Time)
Raspberry Jam
Rubis Probus (Native Raspberry) is a local species we are experimenting with in our attempts to regenerate small bird habitat. It can be quite...