March 23 is National Eucalypt Day, and this year there are some great local activities to help demystify our local eucalypt species, courtes...

A few Grey-headed Flying-foxes in a Red Ash ( Alphitonia excelsa ) tree, looking rather sparse in its foliage as it develops fruit. Image by...

It's spring! And my goodness aren't the pinks and reds of all the local plants making themselves known? There's fresh colour app...

My goodness has it been two years? Yes it has! The Growing Illawarra Natives website was officially launched in March 2020, just as the east...

One of the many amazing vistas at Killalea. Image by Emma Rooksby. For anyone whose interests include local ecosystem conservation and resto...

Grey-headed Flying Fox ( Pteropus poliocephalus ), just one of many threatened species that call this region home. Image by Anthony Wardle. ...

For anyone who's been looking for a copy of Leon Fuller's Wollongong's Native Trees, it's now available again!  It is ten ye...

Wollongong Botanic Garden turned 50 in January 2021 and is hosting celebratory activities throughout the year. One of the biggest events is ...

This is the blog post I've been wanting to put up for...what...four or five years! Whooohoo!!! Over that time, we've been celebra...

It's incredibly dry, and many plants around the place are suffering as a result. They, and we, desperately need rain. But it's amazi...

Well it's just about 1 September again, which is Australia's Wattle Day (after some tortuous history, summarised here by Alan Fairle...

I can't suggest Sublime Point as inspiration for gardens in the Illawarra, unless you happen to live on sandstone-based soils that are r...