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14/10/2026

🌱 Papyrus has an ancient and invaluable history, but in Australia's tropical regions it's weedy, and unwelcome outside a cultivated and controlled garden.

In this Ballarat garden, the Papyrus plants had become very large in the space; close to their habitual size of nearly two metres tall.

Historically, the stems were split and the pith used to make paper, or eaten, and the rhizomes are also edible.

In this contemporary garden space, they're ornamental. Dwarf versions are available commercially.

13/10/2026

🪵 we've always cut our own firewood, whether it's eucalyptus, fruit, or another hardwood, because the thought of not making the most of a finite natural resource is very much against the grain here.

For the sake of a bit more sweat and strain, the house can be heated in a cost-effective manner, with a zero-waste mindset and ex*****on.

Wouldn't have it any other way, and thankful every day that my body can do it.

09/10/2026

Stupidity, arrogance and ignorance in this act

08/10/2026

• whether you call it 'landscape fabric', 'geo-tech' or 'weedmat' or some other similarly inoffensive, green-style term ...
.. it is petro-chem crap.

Just don't.

It's lazy. It doesn't work 😛 AND it's poison.

There are other, non-environmentally damaging methods, tools, and techniques which can be applied to your particular scenario.

04/10/2026

🪵 waste not, want not ...

Raised on an ethic of thrift, living within one's means, and hard graft has meant that I cannot waste a resource. It's not hoarding if it gets used one day, right?

As a business operator, maintenance gardener, landscaper and practising arborist for more than a quarter of a century, I've seen too much good timber wasted, so being able to process a tree into
• mulch
• firewood
• lumber
is the best I can do at the moment.

This little chipper-shredder does what we need it to do, and doesn't require a second mortgage.

21/09/2026

🌳 Silver Birches naturally grow in groves, each shading the others' shallow roots, dropping leaves and debris annually, and presenting a stunning visual aesthetic.

This scenario, however, wasn't so idyllic, and now there's clear access.

As for the Eucalypts on the other side, they were never a long-term option, either - all gone.

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