gardening – Eav Brennan

Tree ferns

I have made a tiny spool scroll of the life cycle of a tree fern (Dicksonia Antarctica). These are amazing plants with a remarkable natural history. Ferns as a class of plant emerged on Earth a very long time ago (nearly 400 million years). Their life stages and structures pre-date the seed as an evolutionaryContinue reading “Tree ferns”

Kelp gardening

Caring for plants means a deeper engagement, observation and connection with the individual plants, their species and their community. Over the past two months, I have tried to propagate golden kelp (Ecklonia radiata) at a guerrilla gardening site in the Eastern Suburbs. I harvested pieces of kelp that had drifted shorewards after they had beenContinue reading “Kelp gardening”