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12 Jun Newsletter 12th June 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 12th June 2025 Hello everyone, again keeping to the format of previous newsletters: ********* Item 1: Things of Beauty The Lone Pine descendant is both the Thing of Beauty Item as well as the Wollongong Botanic Garden feature fo..
12 Jun Society Garlic: When Garlic and Garlic Chives Had a Love Child
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 12th June 2025 If you love alliums (of genus Allium) — onions, garlics, leeks, shallots, chives, and garlic chives — but are unfamiliar with society garlic, you may well need to become acquainted! The name ‘society’ garlic comes..
11 Jun One Way to Process Your Own Homegrown Sugarcane
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 11th June 2025 Some strong winds recently snapped at the base a bunch of canes growing at an angle out of a tall concrete pot. Decision made: it’s processing time! Sugarcane is typically processed anywhere between twelve and eig..
11 Jun Three Ways to Propagate Sugarcane
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 11th June 2025 Introduction to the Structure of Sugarcane Sugarcane is super easy to propagate — possibly the hardest part is deciding which of the three different ways suits you best! (There is a fourth way not covered here, an..
04 Jun How AI Corrupts Science Even More: AI is Flooding Science with Fake Research
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Title image above is a still taken from a video by Sabine Hossenfelder entitled “AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too” First published 4th June 2025 Science has been corrupt(ed) for ages. I can’t point to a specific decade or even century, but I know I’ve been jaded since the 90s, and I came to th..
01 Jun Yacón (Peruvian Ground Apple)
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st June 2025 Botanical Bits Botanical name: Smallanthus sonchifolius Family: Asteraceae (the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family: includes daisies, sunflowers, Curio sp. succulents) Growth: Herbaceous (no woody stems) ..
01 Jun Plant of the Month: June 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st June 2025 Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius) Family: Asteraceae (the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family: includes daisies, sunflowers, Curio sp. succulents) Genus: Smallanthus (includes Yellow Leafcup) Botanical/Bi..
07 May Lockhart:
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Art piece above is copyright © Andrew McGill. Title photo above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 7th May 2025. Last December 2024 hubby and I had a wonderful time exploring the NSW Riverina area. The town of Lockhart abounds with sculptures, and we spent a good few hours explori..
07 May Composting in a Box
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd (This article was originally published 3rd November 2020 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.) First published here 7th May 2025. This post is for people with small (or no) yards, or who otherwise can’t or don’t wish to set up an outdoor com..
07 May Use of Weed Mat Pins With Air-Pot Bonsai Training Pots
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 7th May 2025 Iwas inspired by this local tree: copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos to dig up a self-seeded bottlebrush (Melaleuca sp.) sapling by our water meter (!) and bonsai it, so into a 4.1 L Air-Pot small seed tray it went! ..
06 May On Bulbs and Corms
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 6th May 2025 On Bulbs “Bulb” in the botany world has a very precise meaning — it is the underground stem (yes, stem) of a plant, made of fleshy leaves and used for food storage during dormancy. A bulb is an organ. Other plant or..
01 May Plant of the Month: May 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st May 2025 Saffron (Crocus sativus) Family: Iridaceae (includes freesias, gladioli, and crocuses) Genus: Crocus (includes crocuses) Botanical/Binomial Name: Crocus sativus Crocus, from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος..
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