Nature

Long ago, when Europeans wanted to say that something was so impossibly rare that it not only didn’t exist but couldn’t exist, some used a…

IN the wilds of the Amazon rainforest there lives a mushroom which goes by the name of Pestalotiopsis microspora. It doesn’t have a common name…

There are mushrooms which can force a way through a thick, solid seal of newly laid bitumen road. And this mighty powerlift, from a standing…

During a walk in one of our local forests, have you ever noticed shallow holes dug by animals around the roots of a tree? Perhaps…

Photos by Lyle Radford. Brown goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) (C)  This goshawk is characterised by frantic flapping interspersed with short glides and can be seen over…

Photos by Lyle Radford. This week we feature more birds found in our area as recorded by the Fassifern Field Naturalists during the last 30…

E-Bird Australia holds an enormous database of bird sightings from ‘citizen scientists’, who upload their lists for review by volunteer experts before becoming part of…

Photos: Lyle Radford There’s a little brown bird hoping from branch to branch in your garden or flashes of rainbow colours from a group of…

by Kaye Martin THIS week we introduce another new feature to the pages of Fassifern Guardian in the form of a series on local weeds.…

There’s an extraordinary gardener’s calendar in Ashley Haag’s mind. It’s full of imperatives.  Those imperatives dictate when each vegetable must be sown, when the perennial…

Is it a pumpkin, a squash or a zucchini? The answer is all of the above and none of the above. Squash, pumpkins and zucchinis all…

If you have little granddaughters, it is difficult not to believe that we share the world with fairies. The other day I saw seven sleeping…