Jara Jardine

17/03/2026

24/01/2026

Crassula perfoliata var. minor (Propeller Plant) aka Crassula falcata or Crassula perfoliata var. falcata
Plant profile: https://worldofsucculents.com/crassula-perfoliata-var-minor-airplane-plant/

22/12/2025

Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia.

22/12/2025

Some like the cricket.
I like to note how the turf wickets are prepared and holding out.
Cheers to the green keepers.

Australia's Boxing Day Test squad is in 👀

In: Murphy, Richardson
Out: Lyon, Cummins

27/02/2025

13/02/2025

Credit for the original post,
Savour Soil Permaculture
(I have no other connection, only the page posting)

Bananas. Give so much but ask for so little if managed properly. Being a herb rather than a tree they have very different needs. They are heavy feeders (requiring lots of nutrient) and lots of water to help them thrive.
Many like the clean look so they take the organic matter left behind from dead banana leaves or spent plants and either compost them or move the material off site.
Then having removed it, they need to add organic matter in either the form of compost or woodchip. While these are great options it really does increase the workload.

Something as simple as taking the material you cut from the bananas and use them as mulch keeps it nice and simple, closed loop and interestingly enough the longer you do it, the less you need to supplement their nutrient needs.
Less work, more organic matter.. sounds like a great combination

25/12/2024

The town of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, normally welcomes thousands of tourists around the holidays, but Manger Square was empty and the Christmas tree and festive lights were nowhere to be found this year

06/07/2024

Over a quarter of Australia's butterflies use native grasses as their host-plants – and at least 26 species use 'Tussock Grasses'.

Tussock Grasses (Poa species) are a large group of native 'clumping' grasses that come in different sizes and shades of green. Some species support only a single butterfly – whilst others are used by many. Two of the most used are 'Slender Tussock Grass' and 'Large Tussock Grass'.

Few native grasslands remain and even these are hanging-on in remnant patches. Can you help bring them back? They make great additions to gardens, verges, habitat corridors, parklands, regeneration projects...

More about Slender Tussock-Grass here: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Poa~tenera
More about Large Tussock-Grass here: https://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/trainees-2016/poa-labillardierei.html