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Riddells Creek Landcare NEWS:

Contact us via our new email address:
info@riddellscreeklandcare.org.au

Riddells Creek SOLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD - panels are now going up on rooves! About 60 houses in Riddells Creek and surrounding areas to get solar panels. Watch out for Solar Neighbourhood 2 !!

Sustainability Map
(add your own house to the map!).

Riddells Creek Weed Map (450Kb download).

Riddells Creek Sustainability (a joint venture with Greening of Riddell and Clarkefield Landcare).

Fauna and Flora Lists Updated:
Butterfly List - 10 new butterflies added!
Spider List - 4 new spiders (Flower Spider, Australian Jumping Spider, Garden Web-weaver and Wall Spider)
Fungi / Mushroom List - new list with 60+ photos
Cricket List - Mole Cricket song (audio file!)
Myriapod List - new Millipede (interesting one!)
Beetles named with help from Kim Pullen, CSIRO
Spiders named with help from David Hirst, SA Museum
Cicadas named with help from Max Moulds and David Britton via Sydney Museum
New moths added and named with help from local expert Peter Marriott

Insects & Invertebrates Relationship Tables

New Resources Section
- (see left border), including:
Tour of local flora hotspots, Pea Key

The Things We Do?

Have a look of some stories from the archives:

Bat Night

Weed Eradication

Clean-up Australia Day

FREE BROCHURE - to Riddells Creek and Clarkefield residents

Developed my members of our own community, the 48 page, full colour GROWING SUSTAINABLE GARDENS BROCHURE is free to Riddells Creek and Clarkefield residents.

If you haven't got one you can contact either: Clarkefield & District Farm/Landcare (5428 7623),
Greening of Riddell (5428 6940) or
Riddells Creek Landcare (5428 7546)

Flora ID Book
Now Available
Click here to order copies, for more information and for book updates

Macedon Range Flora: 1. A Photographic Guide to the Flora of Barrm Birrm, Riddells Creek.

by Russell Best & David Francis
Riddells Creek Landcare

All proceeds to Riddells Creek Landcare

The book details all of the 208 native plant species known to exist on the magnificent bushland of Barrm Birrm (the hill that provides the backdrop to Riddells Creek - pictured top left on this page). This amounts to about 40% of the flora found in the Macedon Range and 1/25th of flora of Victoria. It is the most comprehensive book of the Macedon Range flora currently available.

Love Creeper (Comesperma volubile) climbing on Narrow-leaf Bitter Pea (Daviesia leptophylla).

Some features of the book include:
208 plant species covered (including 27 orchids, 14 lilies, 14 wattles, and much more).
56 pages packed with information.
A4 size (with spine).
A 'Quick Plant Identification Guide' .
493 photos (485 by Riddells Creek Landcare members; 487 photos taken on Barrm Birrm).
Foreword by Neville Walsh (co-author of Flora of Victoria and Senior Conservation Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens).
Maps detailing the location of Barrm Birrm and the extensive walking trails.
Many plants not previously known to exist in the Macedon Range.
One brand new plant, discovered on Barrm Birrm as part of this project - described for the first time in this book (a new Stylidium, Trigger-plant).
Labels on photos to highlight key features of the plant or to help explain complex terms.
A novel and comprehensive section on Eucalypts to help ID these difficult plants.
All variations of each plant species are presented (eg. male, female & bisexual flowers of Early Nancy; blue & white Wahlenbergia stricta and the 4, 5, 6 and 7 petalled forms).

The book was funded by a Port Philip & Westernport Catchment Management Authority Community Grant, the Australian Plant Society (Victoria), Macedon Ranges Shire Council and Riddells Creek Landcare.