Presentation at the September 14th 2016 FSA meeting.
Don Burke will be well known to all Australians as the creator of the TV Lifestyle genre with his Burke's Backyard program that ran for 18 years. Don has kept a range of aviary birds for some 62 years, including Beautiful and Red-eared Firetails.
www.burkesbackyard.com.au/
Details of the plants (given out at the meeting) is reproduced below...
AVIARY NESTING SHRUBS.
Native Plants
Acacia howittii 'Honey Bun' (dwarf wattle) Ht 1.5m
Baeckea virgata 'Miniature' (or Dwarf) Ht 2.5m
Callistemon (dwarf bottlebrushes): 'All Aglow' Ht 2.5m
'Better John' Ht 1.5m
'Green John' Ht 1.5m
'Captain Cook' Ht 2.5m
'Matthew Flinders' Ht lm+
'Saint Mary Mackillop' Ht 2.5m
'Scarlet Flame' Ht 2m
Casuarina glauca 'Greenwave' (dwf sheoak) Ht 2m
Melaleuca linariifolia 'Claret Tops' (dwf paperback) Ht 1.5m+
Rhagodia spinescens (creeping salt bush) Ht 0.5m
Westringia fruticosa 'Naringa' Ht 2m+
Climbers...many, try the Wonga vine (pandorea pandorana)
Exotic Plants
Abelia grandiflora 'Compacta' Ht 1-2m Escallonia 'Dwarf Pink' Ht 1-2m
Euonymus 'Easy Hedge' Ht 1.5m
Food Plants
Chickweed, Guinea Grass, Panic Veldt grass (for shade), Summer grass. Summer Grass is a member of the digitaria genus which has been shown to be a key genus for bird and human health (Google Fonio Digitaria.exilis).