Easy Plant Striking
To test whether the cuttings you are taking are suitable bend the growth gently, it should bend and snap if it is a true, semi-hardwood cutting. If it just bends but doesn't feel as if it will snap, it is too soft. The best type of growth for ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Tiger Grass
This striking plant from Thailand looks like bamboo but it's actually a perennial grass. In Asia the large leaves are used to wrap food for steaming, and the flower heads are tied together and used as brooms. Perennial grass with stout culms to 3 ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
What's in this site and what isn't
The website introduces you to the basics of fungi that produce the striking (and easily visible) structures such as the mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, polypores, truffles and so on. You saw a display of these in the opening page. These are the ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Roger Chadwick
Meet the man behind some very unusual and striking entrances. Roger Chadwick is a craftsman from the Sunshine Coast, NSW, specialising in carved timber doors, which some would say are more like works of art. Originally a "brickie" by profession [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Igal Sarna
"Throughout my life as a journalist," writes Igal Sarna in his preface, "I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." In this striking [... more]
Random House |
Andre Leon Talley
One of the most striking figures in international style offers a unique and unforgettable memoir of the two women who shaped his dreams, tastes, and character. Written by Andre Leon Talley "My grandmother and Mrs. Vreeland had similar ways of ... [... more]
Random House |
John Gribbin
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines-from biology to physics, computing to meteorology-than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. ... [... more]
Random House |
What to do - Grow your own fruit
Gloves on because spring is a great time for planting. The striking pink Magnolia called 'Ricki' has beautiful tulip shaped blooms. Magnolias love deep, fertile, well-drained soil, so dig plenty of compost and well-rotted organic matter, even ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
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