Cacti Succulents and Drought Tolerant Plants
Waste is an opportunity not a problem.
Great to see Michael Pawlyn phrasing things in terms of opportunities rather than problems. Talking about factor 10, 100 or even 1000 times improvement in resource efficiency by examining the 3 Billion years of R&D that mother nature has performed. Some good examples. Also turning linear models into closed loop systems.
A friend called Mark who owned an amazing organic farm in England near Stonehenge used to get paid by an instant coffee producer to dump their sterilized coffee bean waste on his farm. It was wonderful organic sterile material that he needed for his farm. He got paid to accept it and the manufacturer got to dump it for cheaper. Win win situations like that are so wonderful.
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Massive 1.8m San Pedro branches for sale.
Amazing specimen Dracaena Draco Dragon Tree at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.
San Pedro flowers are absolutely spectacular.
Magnificent agave attenuata in flower.
16 year old Agave Attenuata (Foxtail) with its fantastic flower spike measuring almost 8′ 7″ or almost 3 metres.
Photos of how to successfully transplant a Dracena Draco (Dragon Tree).
Grass verges are so last century!
Get with the program and replace your boring grass verge with a beautiful low maintenance garden like this one Brunswick East. Many of the properties on Alistar St, Lowan St and King St are beautifying the neighborhood while cutting down on mowing duties.
Bees love my large Cerus cactus. Every morning the flowers are covered in bees. Their buzzing provides a wonderful song as they go about their busy work harvesting nectar.
As this next photo shows, my Cerus cactus is huge and is covered in flowers for about four weeks a year. It is one of the few times a year I see bees in my backyard, the other being when our large bottle brush tree is in flower.
