Making your own wall art can sometimes be a challenge, especially if you are not particularly artistic. I’d like to share this inexpensive way to add beautiful unique art to your home with our Easy DIY Texture Wall Art tutorial.
Suet — rendered fat mixed with seeds and grains — is the highest-energy bird food available. In Australian winters and US/UK winters, suet feeders attract species (woodpeckers, treecreepers, robins) that won’t visit
Hummingbird feeders are mostly a US/Latin America thing (Australia has no native hummingbirds), but the spinebills, honeyeaters and silvereyes that visit our nectar feeders here use the same designs and the same syrup re
A bird bath is the underrated bird-attracting tool — birds need water more reliably than they need feeders, especially in hot summers. The right bath has the correct depth (shallow!), is easy to clean, and survives a w
Squirrels eat through standard bird feeders in days — chew the plastic, raid the seed, intimidate the birds. A genuinely squirrel-proof feeder uses one of three mechanisms: weight-activated closure, baffled pole, or ca
A backyard bird feeder is one of the easiest ways to add daily wonder to a garden — within weeks of setting one up you start recognising the regulars, and within a month the kids know their wattlebirds from their honey
String trimmer line is the cheapest consumable in your gardening kit — but the cheapest line snaps every five minutes, jams the auto-feed, and turns a 30-minute edge job into an hour. The right line for your trimmer ma
