Watercolour Exhibition
Local artist Val Wright will exhibit her watercolour paintings in her Galston studio from Friday the 20th – Thursday the 26th of November 2020. Original paintings, framed or mounted and backed, together with prints and a range of greetings cards, will be for sale. Prices for unframed originals from $75, prints from $25, cards 3 […]
The Rustic & Rural Artisan Weekend | 21st – 22nd of November
Situated in expansive cottage gardens amongst the vast native bushland of Glenorie, the Rustic and Rural Artisan Weekend will take place for its fourth consecutive year. Continuing on from the success of previous open weekends, this provincial market will showcase and celebrate local florists, growers, artisans, craftspeople and sellers of vintage and timber wares. The […]
Dural Gift Graces Galston Concerts
The Galston Concerts, postponed for 2020, will return in 2021, enriched by a gift from Dural worth remembering in this the month of Remembrance Day. While 11 November honours the memory of those who served, suffered and sacrificed in wars, ‘remembrance’ can also reflect on musical service. As examples Dame Nellie Melba sang for our […]
Hidden In The Hills Murray Park Road Track
By Lachlan Turner Bush tracks can take the bushwalker through a variety of landscapes and vegetation. One such track, which is in reality a fire trail, starts and ends at the end of Murray Park Rd Kenthurst. This track is hardly hidden but the diversity of native flora that can be “discovered”, certainly in many […]
Bush Tracks And Tales
Spring is a great time to be outdoors and exploring your local bush reserves. Spring is also the time of year that a lot of our native plants are flowering especially those plant species growing on the sandstone outcrops found in the Hills Shire. A great place to discover these plants is the O’Hara’s Creek […]
Wild Weather
By Katrina Langlands Well, it sure seems the weather is once again giving us some wild times. This last week we have seen hail, wind, heat and rain. I’m sure like us humans; your gardens have no idea what’s going on! So let’s prepare your gardens whilst the moisture is in the ground. Prune or […]
Hail Storm
By Sonja Cameron Spring in the nursery industry is always busy, during COVID, with everyone at home, it has been even more spring fever than usual. Our nursery, Cameron’s Nursery, is located in Arcadia, employs 30 staff, growing quality perennials and groundcovers predominately for the retail sector. Sunday the 18th October was like any other […]
Allan Beard Of Glenorie And Life Member Of The Bromeliad Society Of Australia
Allan Beard has been a resident of Glenorie all his life apart from his first three years spent in Glossodia. He has seen this rural area change from knowing every kid and farm in the area and the days when Old Northern Road was nothing more than a dirt track that became a boggy mess […]
Joy Clarke’s Love Affair With Mini Neoregelia Bromeliads
As I get older, I find the smaller size of miniature neoregelias more appealing for their ease of handling. Plus, mini neoregelia have such a lot going for them. Not only are they cute and colourful but are fairly easy to grow and propagate. They can be grown in hanging baskets (if there is a […]
Turn 2020 Around Together
By Ray Williams We’ve all had our lives on hold for six months or more, now’s the time to get out there, enjoy our NSW stories, landscapes and experiences and turn 2020 around together. NSW residents can help reboot the state’s visitor economy by hitting the road for a short-break, taking a Sydney ‘playcation’, attending […]
