Chapters of this book can be downloaded from the Coffs Harbour Landcare Website or hard copies are available from the Landcare Support Officer for a gold coin donation.
Ranging from home gardeners and residents to farmers, land managers and weeds professionals, users can search or browse weed names (common or scientific); recognise a weed by its physical description and image gallery; and find out about its impacts, where it occurs, how it spreads and its preferred habitat.
Weeds of South-East Queensland and Northern NSW is an identification and information tool covering suburban, rural, environmental and agricultural weeds.
A list of where to go for more info on weeds – books, websites and apps. This info includes noxious weeds, environmental weeds, water weeds, camphor conversion and plants that are poisonous to livestock.
Some interesting articles on a new way to look at this environmental weed.
Byron Shire Council post flood weed sheets. Top 6 !
My Local Native Garden is a 44-page booklet published by Brunswick Valley Landcare (BVL) that is packed with information to help you design, plant and maintain your own native garden and also how to attract wildlife to your garden.
Hard copies are available from the Byron Shire Council offices in Mullumbimby or by requesting one from our landcare support officer.
This fantastic resource developed by a local long-term volunteer Margie Hall is excellent for choosing the right plants to attract different types of wildlife. Available for download free Native Plants for Nth Rivers Native Wildlfe.
Laminated hardcopies are available from the Byron Shire Council Offices in Mullumbimby, your local Landcare office for a small fee.
This online guide allows users to build native species planting lists for projects ranging from landscape-scale restoration to back garden planting.
The user can view a colour photograph of each plant and explore its characteristic features to improve the chances of a successful planting in any setting.
You will find more than 1550 locally occurring native species in the guide including their physical attributes (height, habit and flower colour), environmental tolerances (sun, frost, salt and wind hardiness), ecological relationships (key fauna food, butterfly and bird attracting), soil types where they occur and broad landscape locations. Species are also assigned to vegetation mapping types and have a nursery ‘availability’ score.
The Byron version of the guide is easy to use and available online.
This booklet provides a guide to small native plants of subtropical eastern Australia.
Recently updated in 2023 by local authors Penny Watsford, Margaret Elliott, Robert Price and Lui Weber.
There is nothing quite like this book bringing together in one place an easy reference guide for small plants on the floor of the forest.
Available from Brunswick Valley Landcare for $20 each.
There are a number of excellent nurseries that sell local native plants both as economical tubestock and more established larger plants.
You can find a list at the Directory of Northern Rivers Native Plant Nurseries.
Hints and tips from the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Recognises and shares the best available knowledge from research and practice in native species seed management.
A non-profit citizen-science organisation dedicated to raising the profile of Australia’s incredible fungal diversity. Our emphasis is on enjoying and learning about fungi and our focus is on macrofungi in the natural environment. There website has an online field guide for fungi.
Recognises and shares the best available knowledge from research and practice in native species seed management.
Conserving and restoring from forest to foreshore
Brunswick Valley Landcare acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this land, the Arakwal people, the Minjungbal people and the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung Nation, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
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