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Nick Hansa, Fairhill Native Plants: Posted on Monday, 21 April 2014 4:59 PM
 Helping Pollinators in the Garden
World wide we are loosing our pollinators – our birds, bees
and other insects, and our nocturnal animals such as possums and bats. And without pollinators we don’t
eat. It sounds bizarre but it is
true, that without bees and other pollinators we die. It is a pretty simple
equation; everything that goes onto our dinner table relies on bees or other
pollinators. Without pollinators
our forests will de-evolve back to ferns, without pollination the high yield,
high-energy plants (monocotyledons & dicotyledons) will wither and die. |
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Nick Hansa: Posted on Sunday, 9 June 2013 1:56 PM
On the last Wednesday day of every month at 8.00am during
winter (7.00am starting August) the Wednesday Day Club spend and hour wondering
through Fairhill Botanic Gardens enjoying the huge diversity of bird life that
the gardens have attracted before retiring to have a cuppa, talk about their
sightings and a chat. On most
outings they identify over 60 different types of birds with the highest number
being 85 seen and three heard, that’s a huge diversity in a 10 acre
garden. They have listed over 150
species of birds over the past years. |
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