Drink Spike
Here's a hint for keeping your pot plants watered while you're away. This brilliant little invention is the Holman drip spike and it allows you to apply water from a cool drink bottle in a drip fashion. You can adjust the drip rate from fast to ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Garden Express - Drip Spikes
Drip spikes are brilliant for watering plants, and especially potted plants. Garden Express is offering viewers the chance to purchase a pack of 12 Drip Spikes for the sensational price of just $17 delivered direct to your door. This is a great ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Amaranth - The French Alternative
There are around 60 species of amaranthus, including weeds, leaf vegetables, grain crops and ornamentals. Many have large, colourful leaves and tassel-like flower spikes. Jackie French thinks amaranthus is the most spectacularly beautiful and ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Drink spiking
To spike a drink means to put alcohol or drugs into someone's drink without their knowledge or permission. Drink spiking is illegal. Slipping alcohol or drugs such as tranquillisers, amphetamines or GHB into a friend's drink as a joke is still ... [... more]
Better Health |
Spike Carlsen
Spike Carlsen is an editor, author, carpenter, and woodworker, who has been immersed in the world of wood and woodworking for more than thirty years. He is former executive editor of Family Handyman magazine where he wrote hundreds of articles on ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Mary Morgan
WELCOME TO DRAGON Pizzeria! BeBop and Spike are two friendly dragons who not only make delicious pizzas, but offer speedy dragon delivery anywhere in Fairy Tale Land! One giant pizza to Beanstalk Castle? BeBop cooks it up, and Spike delivers it ... [... more]
Random House |
Blanche Mccrary Boyd
No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders ... [... more]
Random House |
Spike Nasmyth
A POW's Story Spike Nasmyth 2,355 Days Written by Spike Nasmyth [... more]
Random House |
Watsonia
A bulbous spring-flowering wildflower that produces large clumps of strap-like leaves 90-120 cm tall. The flower spikes are even taller, with tubular flowers in pink, salmon, red and white. The foliage dies in late summer/early autumn, which is ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Arum or calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
An erect perennial herb to about 1m high, which forms large clumps over time. Leaves are very large (to 60cm long), glossy, dark green and arrowhead-shaped. Flowers consist of a large (to 25cm long) white sheath enclosing a yellow spike. The ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Madeira vine or Lamb's Tail (Anredera cordifolia)
A large vine with rather fleshy, glossy, slightly heart shaped leaves, and long pendulous spikes of tiny cream flowers. Seed is probably not formed in southern Australia. The plant grows from large underground tubers. It also forms aerial tubers ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Durio zibethinus
Distinctive in appearance with a browny green skin covered in hard spikes, inside which the flesh is custard-like and in three to five segments, each surrounding a seed. It is the aroma of the durian rather than its shape which is its most ... [... more]
NSW Agriculture |
