Category: Know-how

  • Let’s Propagate: A plant propagation manual for Australia

    Bishop, A, 2025, Propagating Native Plants, https://www.gardeningaustraliamag.com.au/propagating-native-plants/#:~:text=Native%20cuttings%20can%20take%20anywhere,to%20pot%20up%20the%20seedlings.

    This is a handbook for propagating specifically Australian Native plants. It takes the user from a novice to being able to identify what propagation methods can be applied for a large cross-section of native plant families, genus, and species.

  • Electric Vehicles powering your devices, home or the grid

    Electric Vehicles powering your devices, home or the grid

    Electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged at home using the relatively free power of rooftop solar. Many EV brands also have the ability to supply power to devices, specific home circuits or to the power grid.

  • Drip Irrigation: for Every Landscape & All Climates

    Drip Irrigation: for Every Landscape & All Climates

    Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and all Climates by Robert Kourik (2009) provides the basics as well as advanced concepts in drip irrigation design for domestic use. This library guide/review provides a description as well as a chapter by chapter summary of this indispensible handbook.

  • Using NatureMaps to identify plant communities

    dnicolle, 2023, Mount Compass Swamp Gum Eucalyptus paludicola, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/192133470

    One of the best uses of NatureMaps is to locate plant communities which pre-existed European settlement. This procedure explains how to set NatureMaps for this purpose, then to use the vegetation key or ID to identify the upper, middle, and lower storey of the plant community.

  • NatureMaps

    NatureMaps

    NatureMaps is an online mapping tool which contains a range of information about the State’s natural resources. It is available for the general public to use to learn and understand more about the physical environment. 

  • Yarra Ranges Council Plant Directory

    Yarra Ranges Council Plant Directory

    The Yarra Ranges Plant Directory is a database of the plants which can be found in the Shire territory, which includes the Yarra valley and Dandenong ranges.

  • Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

    Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

    The ACRA website is a registration portal for plant breeders to apply for registration of a native plant cultivar.

  • Propagating native plants

    Propagating native plants

    This library guide lists a wide variety of media which covers the techniques used in propagation which are best used to propagate a given plant genus or species.

  • Worldcat

    Worldcat

    WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalogue. It allows users to find library resources registered in its database by using simple and boolean search criteria found at any library, be it at a local council, high school, or institution of higher learning such as colleges/TAFE and universities.

  • Australian Native Plants

    Australian Native Plants

    Australian Native Plants has been an important go-to reference for passionate gardeners and landscaping professionals to find information about Native plants and their cultivars for use plant selection.