Category Archives: Environment

early spring show …

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Tom Harley

Close to town, the Dragonflower Trees are flowering heavily. This large edible flower is quite stunning with the sun shining on them. The flowers are the largest of all peas. Here a Sesbania is covered in Mistletoe. Beautiful weather and … Continue reading →

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preparing for spring …

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Tom Harley

The last few days of winter in the tropics brings out a plethora of flowering species, which culminates in a spectacular show in the West Kimberley at this time of year. Click to zoom.

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greening the desert …

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Tom Harley

The green Great Sandy Desert, a couple of hundred kilometres from Broome is one of my favorite destinations for plant collecting. Many of the plants are extraordinarily stunning, with a couple shown here. The Kimberley is part of the northern … Continue reading →

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low tide at Cable Beach, Broome …

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Tom Harley
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hit the road again … and again

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Tom Harley

The second of two groups of photos from the last field trip to King Sound and the beginning of a new horticulture project for an indigenous community.

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hit the road again …

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Tom Harley

Visited another remote area, the west side of King Sound, which is the East side of the Dampier Peninsula. So this 400 km round trip brought up some interesting plant species, and occasional wildlife. Superb bush to ocean scenery was … Continue reading →

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“a miracle fertilizer” … to “the uncertainty has settled”

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Tom Harley

Give your vegetables more CO2. Look what the response on tomatoes from lots more CO2!   There is so much information on the co2science blog, a small snippet here, but go there and check the rest out: The Interactive Effects … Continue reading →

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wacky nutball science and fake news … an epidemic

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Tom Harley

Fake News Channel jumps the shark. Buoyed by Victoria’s future, and South Australia’s,  continuing black-outs, it’s ABC Solar dreaming all the way. Blackout every night. “We expect over the next couple of years [it] will really reduce the cost to … Continue reading →

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falsifying climate change’s CO2 problem …

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Tom Harley

Just released: A peer reviewed Climate Science Research Report has proven that it is all but certain that EPA’s basic claim that CO2 is a pollutant is totally false. So all that data tampering is for nothing. Read the rest … Continue reading →

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salt marsh country near Broome …

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Tom Harley

There are many salt marshes along the Kimberley and Pilbara coastlines. These pics were from near Sandfire on the 80 mile beach. They contain a wide variety of colours and shapes of edible saltbush species. Click to zoom. From Willies … Continue reading →

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