A firey start to the new year, a plant that looks better dead, a handsome puffball, January rain, and the cutest Wooly Bee-fly.

Flowering at night, a mystery, native bee pollinator and special twists to keep the flowers closed. Weird indeed.

A bird which eats, sleeps, drinks, mates and bathes on the wing and has a strange affinity with radar-shielding fluff.

In the Mallee, it is essential to water the trees and shrubs we plant, to make sure the revegetation survives the tough first summer. This is Phil's clever watering set-up to make it just a little easier.

Sandhill Wattle is a major component of our revegetation program. But it is also a bit of a rock star with many unique characters.

Is the colonising flight of thousands of termites a good or a bad thing?