We each grew up with a strong love of plants and the environment. Bill’s early years were spent exploring the western plains of Melbourne, and later as a jackaroo around the Riverina in New South Wales. His passion for Australian flora and the environment grew strongly in those years. […]

Picture a plain flat paddock of five acres somewhere in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. One boundary is a quiet country road edged with a few trees, remnants from pre-clearing days of the early 20th century. Another boundary is a deeply channelled winding creek bed containing wombat burrows. The only […]

If I’m truly honest, summer is never my favourite time of the year. It’s too scary.  But as the climate shifts and global weather events become more extreme at both ends of the scale, we too must adapt and seek ways to live with our landscape … or, as First […]

As spring nudges at the door of winter, my little container garden opens its eyes and peeks out.  A few sunshiny days and bingo ~ pots of colourful pretties make such a sweet picture I can’t help visiting each day to see who else has woken up.

And the glory of […]

A Winter’s morning …
It starts with a lazy roll over out of bed …. a perch in the early sunshine … and as we wander around the billabong, the light changes, frost gleams, glassy water reflects,  a cormorant warms his wings, the day begins to glow, and a spot of […]

A time capsule of a beautiful Summer at Wombat Bend …. we have been busy

There’s something so special and particular about August to me that I am forever sad when we reach the last day.

It’s the light that changes by the moment; it’s the bursts of bright sunshine and the sudden sharp showers that sometimes even morph into hailstones. It’s the wonder of my […]

Oh what a sunset !
Do you really need to go further than our Yarra Valley for one of Nature’s best displays?