Vireya's Blog

On the 2nd of January I took this photo: Tiny silver wattle, Acacia dealbata , trees just germinating. I apparently didn't write a bl...

This morning we heard from the guy we've been growing TreeProject trees for this year. As he has had some rain and more is forecast he ...

This time for real: Four boxes of TreeProject seedlings loaded onto the back of the ute. Two other boxes of just-germinated species will...

Our warm autumn seems to have confused the lilac: It flowered in October , and seems to think that spring has arrived again. The zygoca...

Yesterday we received an email asking for our TreeProject trees to be delivered to the co-ordinator, ready for the landholder to come and c...

A few more of our TreeProject seedlings are growing. This is our seventeenth year as volunteer growers, raising plants from seed for re-vege...

Ten days after the seeds were sown , the first of our TreeProject seedlings popped up today: These are Acacia montana , the mallee watt...

This morning I finished sowing the last of the TreeProject seeds: We have quite a mixed batch this time, with a eucalypt, two different a...

A small scale working bee to get the TreeProject kit ready to plant. Two people (under the shade sail) filled tubes with potting mix: T...

Only 11 days after last year's TreeProject trees were taken away, today was the first distribution of kits for this year's. The di...

Last year our TreeProject trees were forgotten by the landholder, and didn't get collected until 3rd November . I don't know what h...

It's five or six weeks since my bethel sage started flowering , but this morning may have put an end to it: Minus three degrees. Pr...

Today I was presented with this mystery flower: Hibiscus-like, but we don't have any hibiscus in the garden. I thought it must be an ...

Wallowa, Acacia calamifolia , seedling: This means there is only one TreeProject species which has not yet germinated.

This was a bit exciting this morning: One acacia seedling! Acacia rigens , nealie wattle. Only one seedling out of four boxes of acacias,...

The TreeProject seedlings have been very slow to germinate this year. Each day I look for some sign of growth, and today I found a couple. ...

We have 14 boxes of (potential) TreeProject seedlings this year, but there has been no sign of germination yet. Today I thought perhaps I w...

Back in February the seeds were sown of this year's TreeProject trees. During March they germinated. And since then they've grown,...