Dignams Creek - The Triangle Community Newspaper

Landcare and bridge update from Dignams Creek

1 October 2025/in Dignams Creek /by Tikka Wilson

The bush sure feels dry, despite our wet winter, but it also looks like a huge Jackson Pollock painting, spattered with intense pinks (Indigofera australis), with deep purple dripping over the ground and up trees (Hardenbergia violacea) and bright yellow straw flowers everywhere.

Thinking about planting bamboo at your place? Please don’t. We had a great Landcare day ripping out three huge tractor loads of the stuff at Didi’s and Mark’s place. Our latest … Read more »

Four people in the Australian bush with tools in the foreground.

Diggies working bee

1 September 2025/in Dignams Creek, Villages /by Tikka Wilson

Our Diggies Landcare group is really kicking goals. A recent working bee smashed some cape ivy, a terrible problem in our valley, at Angela and Dave’s. Many hands at work with rakes got rid of a huge heap. Thanks to all who showed up.

And thanks too to Sally Anne who brings out the Diggies Landcare Weed of the Month, which is so informative. Over … Read more »

People sitting in a circle outside with an old wooden building in the background

Wild tobacco and the bridge, again

1 August 2025/in Dignams Creek /by Tikka Wilson

July gave us beautiful sunny days when flooding rain and hailstorms weren’t hitting. Loads of citrus at the Share Shed kept winter colds at bay, thanks to oranges and tangelos from Angela, grapefruit from Rici, lemons from Sally and sunrise limes (a cross between a native lime and a calamondin which is a hybrid of a cumquat and a mandarin) from Didi. Many of us attended a bonfire party at Greg’s that rocked, and so did … Read more »

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