Tag: Reference resource

  • Native trees and shrubs of South-Eastern Australia

    CC0 licensed photo by bezils from the WordPress Photo Directory: https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/75569292f4/

    Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia, by Leon Costermans, embraces an area that stretches from the Flinders and Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, across Victoria and southern New South Wales to the NSW South Coast.

  • Geology of the Fleurieu Peninsula

    Geology of the Fleurieu Peninsula

    The geology of the Fleurieu is a complex composition of very ancient rock formations amidst that formed in the earliest geological times. Thanks to the Digital Atlas of Australia, this geology is illustrated graphically.

  • South Australian Planning Portal Application (SAPPA)

    South Australian Planning Portal Application (SAPPA)

    The South Australian Property and Planning Atlas (SAPPA) is a free, map-based application which displays planning spatial layers and land ownership information.

  • Digital Atlas of Australia

    Digital Atlas of Australia

    The Digital Atlas of Australia is a mapping tool provided by the Australian Government to view a wide range of datasets in a graphical format. One such use is to view the geological regions of Australia using layers which reveal the types of surface geology, timescale, and rock type.

  • Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

    Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

    The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation is a register of the people, industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies, awards, major events and other organisations that have contributed to Australia’s scientific, technological, engineering and medical heritage.

  • Australian Orchids

    Australian Orchids

    Noel Lothian, former Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, provides the text for the illustrated works of Rosa Fiveashes creating a textual and visual description of orchids found across Australia.

  • 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.

  • 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.