Gardening Neil Fisher
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Subscriber only Probably one of the hardest gardening tasks you will ever have to do is establishing a garden on the beachfront.
From the start, the selection of plants wasn’t as easy as just going to a nursery, looking at the label on the plant and saying this looks good.
Many of the plants recognised in gardening books and local nurseries can be complete duds in coastal conditions. I received an email this week from Helen of Emu Park asking if I could recommend some colourful coastal ground covers that could be planted on an embankment garden not far from the beach.
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Subscriber only A Central Queensland man has discovered fossils of what experts believe is the largest known marsupial to have ever lived. Blackwater s Jonathon Young was blown away when he unearthed what appeared to be the bottom right side jaw of a diprotodon and a few other fossils near the mining town this week. Mr Young estimates the fossils weigh about 3.3kg and hopes to try to find the rest of the remains which he expects to be nearby. While he is waiting for Queensland Museum to verify the fossils in person, its Head of Geosciences and Principal Curator, Dr Andrew Rozefelds, said from initial photos, it did appear to be a diprotodon.
Australia’s foremost coral reef scientist Professor Terry Hughes says government plans to restore the Great Barrier Reef are doomed to failure because they’re too small and expensive, while the rate of catastrophic bleaching events are already recurring faster than corals can recover. A recent Australian Academy of Sciences report said that if the world warmed by 2 degrees Celsius just one per cent of corals would survive. The earth has already warmed by 1.1 degrees and medium-range estimates forecast 1.5 degrees of warming by 2045 to 2050.
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The Australian government has committed NZ$108 million for reef restoration projects which include cooling the water, sun shields and ‘coral gardening’.
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