A lot of people want to attract birds to their property, which is great, yet the common practice is to plant a whole heap of nectar-providing plants, e.g. Grevilleas and bottlebrushes. A customer came to my nursery the other day, and I said to her, “take a look around you. What’s in flower? Only theContinue reading
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The Mighty Mallotus
When we first moved to our acreage at Lefthand Branch I would occasionally catch whiffs of a strong sort of herbal smell wafting from the vegetation below the hill. What is it and where is it coming from? I later learned that it comes from Mallotus claoxyloides (Green Kamala, also aptly known as Smell-of-the-Bush). TheseContinue reading