Table 3 shows that in 2006/7 60 per cent of the mature Coast
Banksias were dead.
The mass murderer who left his gun in a
banksia tree down the road from
The latter include the iconic genus
Banksia, named for Joseph Banks.
Clumps of bush and broad strips of
banksia forest surround the blazed trail to Elephant Rock, with velvet folds of baldy pasture forming a background of open farmland beyond the park reserve.
Unfortunately, as Wotherspoon explains, "
Banksias require seven years or more to mature to an age where they produce seed to supply the next generation.
So here are the mallee, paperbark, the
banksias, egrets, jackeroos, the Nullabor, the wheat, the red soil, the paddocks, even the Wandjina figures and places where "evenings / brooded bruised and red." But also GE labs, uranium mines, high-voltage lines, land deeds, corporations, salt-soured land, memories of old massacres of Aborigines, Pauline Hanson, dance drugs.
In the Australian mediterranean, there are many
banksias (
Banksia), a genus with about fifty species.
Celia had a small studio attached to one of the research laboratories of the then Botany Department, and was painting
banksia species for the first of a three-volume florilegium of The
Banksias.
My roses, damascenas and
banksias were gorgeous and out in time for my Charity Garden Opening in April and so were greatly admired.
Wander on a self-guided tour among
banksias, grevilleas, proteas, and other plants from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, many of which are low-water growers.
As a result, many of our eucalypts and
banksias and heaths have opted to blossom during winter when this company of hungry pollinators is available for service.
In a bid to preserve wild macadamia varieties (relatives of
banksias, grevilleas and hakeas) `gene banks' or plantations have been established at three sites: Caboolture and Tiaro in Queensland, and Alstonville in New South Wales.
As she did so, she stared out at the burgeoning
banksias, the trees she had grown from seedlings, flowering, filling her garden with their magnificence.
So, the Timelines Project was born, and with seasonal event information coming from all the states, the Gould League produced in 1996, with beautiful illustrations by Alexis Beckett, the
Banksias & Bilbies nature diary featuring weekly event predictions for habitats in northern and southern Australia.
