Blue Mountains Ropewerx
In search of a thrill in the Blue Mountains? How does hanging by a thread sound? Thursday, January 9, 2003 In search of a thrill in the Blue Mountains? How does hanging by a thread sound? Most people who have watched climbers scaling up and down ... [... more]
Getaway |
Billardiera ringens
The genus Billardiera is named in honour of the French botanist La Billardiere, and includes about twenty species of handsome climbing plants. Don looked at a member of the group called Billardiera ringens, a moderately vigorous twiner with ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Bambino Bougainvilleas
Bougainvilleas are among the most colourful and the most spectacular flowering plants. However they can be rampant climbers that can take over the garden, choking trees. The answer for the average size garden lies in dwarf bougainvilleas. They ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Best climate:
This showy climber from tropical America is very popular in warm climate gardens, where it is often seen growing on fences, walls and pergolas. It produces large, stunning yellow flowers over several months of the year. The genus name ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness or mountain sickness is a risk for mountain climbers and can be harmful or fatal. Symptoms include headaches and vomiting. Ascending too rapidly does not allow the body enough time to adjust to reduced oxygen and changes in air ... [... more]
Better Health |
Clipped Ivy
Some very common plants or 'garden workhorses' can look special when clipped and pruned into interesting shapes. A good example is Hedera canariensis, a species of ivy native to Tunisia and Algeria. A vigorous, evergreen, woody-stemmed climber, ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
English ivy (Hedera helix)
English ivy climbs up tree trunks, clinging by small clusters of aerial roots to the bark, unlike most climbers which have twining stems or tendrils. It has 3 lobed leaves, which are thin-textured and only slightly glossy, often with a slight ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Waterwise Book Promo
Roses are some of the toughest plants around and they really do fit the waterwise mould especially when they are well established like the beautiful Altissimo Rose (Rosa, Modern Rose, Modern Climber, Large-Flowered, 'Altissimo'). This is the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Aloe
There are some 330 species in the genus Aloe, all evergreen succulents ranging from low growing perennials, shrubs and climbers to 15m tall trees. The lance-shaped leaves grow in rosettes at the stem or branch tips, are usually toothed or spined. ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
James Lund
Where did we get this idea that God wants us to be complacent? What if we were called to forfeit our comfortable lifestyles? Meet the called: mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, fighter pilots, and jungle missionaries who follow God into the ... [... more]
Random House |
Your Questions Answered - Indigenous Plants
There is an indigenous plant to suit every situation from pretty lilies and wildflowers to shrubs, climbers, grasses and trees. Even plants perfect for hedges and borders and the good news is that they require little water, fertiliser or ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Greg Child
The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia "The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or ... [... more]
Random House |
