Neville's Backyard
We are back in Neville's backyard to give you a couple of hints for some trusty water-hardy plants with a bit of spunk. Found in the subtropical woodland areas of East Africa, Madagascar, East Asia and Australasia. Mostly under 1 m tall, long ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) - Nurseries
Alpine plants, forest and woodland plants, culinary plants, mosses. Specialising in understorey plants for North-east Victoria. Local native plants grow better! Western Flora specialises in Western Australian plants suitable for dry and hot ... [... more]
asgap.org.au |
Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the ... [... more]
Random House |
Ground spiders
This is a vast and diverse group of spiders found all over Australia from rainforests to deserts. Most are vagrant hunters that are especially common in forest and woodland habitats, living in leaf litter and under bark. Some are highly ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Mangrove Golden Orb-weaving Spider
Golden Orb-weaving Spiders are well known for both their large size and the golden sheen of their strong, closely-meshed, aerial webs (40 - 80 cm diameter) that are suspended amongst shrubs and trees in open forest and woodland. Nephila: origin ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Cane Toads, Giant Toads or Marine Toads
Cane Toads are found in habitats ranging from sand dunes and coastal heath to the margins of rainforest and mangroves. They are most abundant in open clearings in urban areas, and in grassland and woodland. The natural range of Cane Toads extends ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
