Australian
Its time to prepare the lawn for the hot months ahead and there are some essential things you can do to ensure it will be water wise, whilst still looking bright green and fantastic. With the driest winter on record, we all need to conserve water ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Gouldian Finch
Gouldian Finches are Australia's most spectacularly coloured grassfinches, and are perhaps the most spectacularly coloured of all Australian birds. They are small birds, measuring just 11 to 14 cm. They have a bright green back, yellow belly and ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Pork with Spicy Plum Sauce
Add pork and stirfry over high heat until browned and cooked through, then set aside. Add ginger and onion to wok with 1 tablespoon water and stirfry until golden. Add asparagus, broccoli, capsicum and snow peas and stirfry until bright green and ... [... more]
Nestlé |
Environmental solution:
Small ferny bright green growths in your lawn in winter are the beginnings of the nasty prickles that will bother you in summer as they indicate bindii. The colder months are the time to deal with bindii (Soliva pterosperma) in lawns as it will ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Pasta with Greens and White Beans
I don't know if you'd consider this low in ingredients, but it's very good made with collard greens: Yield: 5 servings Cook until greens are wilted and tender yet still bright green, about 7 minutes. While greens are cooking, drop pasta into ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Broccoli and Tofu in Spicy Almond Sauce
In small saucepan, whisk together almond butter and hot water until you have a uniform mixture. Wipe wok clean, saute remaining ginger & garlic in 2 T. oil. Add chopped broccoli, cashews and tamari; stir-fry until broccoli is bright green. Toss ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Briar rose or sweet briar (Rosa rubiginosa)
Deciduous slender thorny shrub 1 to 1.5m high. Can form large thickets but generally does not do so on the coast. Compound blue-green or bright green leaves with 5-7 rounded leaflets. Large (to 5cm) pink flowers are followed by smooth orange to ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Coral tree (Erythrina X sykesii)
A medium sized deciduous tree with knobbly grey-green bark, and numerous small triangular rose-like thorns. The bright green leaves are compound, with three large roughly triangular leaflets, the central one on a much longer stalk than the two ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum)
A tussock grass, with a spreading open shape. Leaves are bright green, folded in bud and flat and about 1cm wide when mature. Long stems bear nodding seed heads which produce sticky disc shaped seeds. Grows in wet areas in pasture where it can be ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum)
A mat-forming grass, spreading by underground runners (rhizomes). Rhizomes are thick and usually white, at least on new growth. Leaves are bright green, folded in bud and flat and about 1cm wide when mature. Kikuyu seldom flowers or seeds, but ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Panic Veldtgrass (Ehrharta erecta )
Panic veldtgrass is a soft, bright green grass of shady areas, with flat leaves 5-15mm wide, smooth and hairless. A distinctive feature is the presence of a faint purple band at the base of the leaf where it joins the stem, though plants may not ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Family Dictyopharidae
The Family Dictyopharidae is well represented in Indonesia but not in the Australasian region, although the bright green Hasta hastata Kirkaldy and species of Thanatodictya Kirkaldy which are brown, are quite common in Australia. Only T. ... [... more]
NSW Agriculture |
