What’s Blooming – Hakea Laurina
Hakea laurina is a locally occurring plant from the Proteacea family. It is commonly known as Pincushion Hakea, and sometimes Kodjet or Emu Bush. It is large shrub to 4 [...]
Piesse Lake Makeover
Are you excited about the creation of a Green Heart for Katanning? An example of an urban wetland. How Piesse Lake may look. (High-rises not included.) [...]
Katanning Off The Grid Solar Buying Club
Selling Western Power may help solve Western Australia's financial woes but it leaves its customers susceptible to uncertain energy prices in the future. Katanning is ideally suited [...]
Progress at Piesse
The Shire of Katanning is pressing ahead with the next stages of the Piesse Lake area. Wetland consultants SERCUL were engaged to investigate water sources, salinity, nutrient [...]
Perfume Princess
A heavy dusky perfume wafts through the bushland announcing that the sandalwood Santalum spicatum is blooming. Unremarkable blooms with a perfume punch This much [...]
Just a Casuarina
"It's just a Casuarina." How many times have I heard people make this comment? We should be saying, "How fortunate we are to have Casuarinas, because without [...]
Canopy Cover
Before the onset of climate change 25% canopy cover of a townscape was considered adequate to maintain livability. Scientists now consider 40% to 45% canopy cover essential for [...]
Growing Partners
Unlike true plants lichen are not single organisms but a symbiosis or partnership between a fungus, an algae and/or cyanobacteria. Three different Lichen on a Jam Post [...]
Katanning’s Liveability
A town's liveability is directly related to the amount of good quality green spaces available to its citizens. This is not just green expanses of playing fields, but [...]
Mistletoe Magic
Usually Mistletoe is associated with the Christmas season in the northern hemisphere. Many people don't realise that we have over 90 species of Mistletoe in Australia, and the largest [...]