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I wrote recently about pollinator-friendly plants and, in response, an email from Susan Savolainen, who gardens in Banning, ...
white gum and white stringybark. Which made him ‘hate stringybark with a Passion’. Related: ‘Who painted the bark?’: Meet the magnificent rainbow eucalyptus Australian bushfires: burnt eucalyptus tree ...
The endemic Risdon peppermint (Eucalyptus risdonii) is a "scraggly-looking tree" with unusual blue leaves ... Another Tasmanian eucalypt, the Morrisby gum (Eucalyptus morrisbyi), has suffered ...
The first of these is red river gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), which Savolainen describes as “literally buzzing from the amount of bees visiting it.” This is a massive tree that may reach ...
Special laws were created for the expansion of the eucalyptus.” Now the exotic blue gum is the most abundant tree in Portugal, covering about 7% of the land. Walking through Vale de Canas beneath the ...
He chose to plant the blue gum eucalyptus tree, favorable because it could be used as a windbreak, to shelter the city from the wind, absorb excess groundwater and to define property lines between ...
Eucalyptus trees fall easy with shallow roots that injure people every winter." Worse still, he noted, the oil from Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus kills native plants and is highly flammable ...
The next few months we’ll be “in the dark” so to speak – the shortest days of the year puts us in front of the Low Emissions Burner, keeping warm while rea ...
High on the Ventura County hillside overlooking the city, a 15-foot-tall Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus tree was planted. It means Two Trees will remain Two Trees, perhaps long after it's Three Trees.
Believed to be native to Tasmania but widespread in countries like Australia causing large-scale destruction, this weevil is currently targeting only one species of eucalyptus in the Nilgiris, ...