Avid Greenbushes gardener and coordinator of the Greenbushes Community Garden, Tracy Lansdell, was excited to have a visit from passionate horticulturist and ‘Gardening Australia’s 2007 Gardener of the Year’ Faye Arcaro recently.
Ms Arcaro was on her annual South West fungi finding expedition and was keen to check out the North Greenbushes property that is becoming well known around the country.
“I have had an amazing time travelling around the South West as part of my fungi finding expedition,” she said.
“I stopped over at a friends place in Boyup Brook before calling into Tracy’s Greenbushes property to check out her native bee houses. It was fantastic, these bee hotels are almost fully booked and the place is buzzing with 17 types of native bees present.”
Tracy Landsell is well known in the region for her bee passion and gardening nouse and said she enjoyed sharing her passion for bees with Faye Acaro.
“We had a tour around my garden looking at the different habitat requirements of native bees and all the different styles of bee hotels I’ve made,” Ms Lansdell said.
“We also checked out my food growing areas including the large garlic plantings, herb patch, orchard and most importantly, all the different fungi growing on our 5 acres before we had a cuppa and a good chat about all things gardening, fungi and bees.”
Faye Arcaro’s garden appeared on ABC’s Gardening Australia on June 25 and is in the current edition of the magazine. She will be visiting Boyup Brook in July to hold a fungi workshop and share the hundreds of photos that were taken during her recent expedition. More information about the tour can be found on her facebook page, Botanic Obsession.
Ms Lansdell is holding some bee workshops in November and will be running a ‘Bee Hotel’ competition to see who can be the most creative with their designs. More information about these workshops can be found on Tracy’s Facebook page Green Tree Naturopathy.
