Garden Escapees & Other Weeds of Bushland & Reserves of the Mid North Coast N.S.W.

Australian Flora Gardening Reference Invasive Species Regional Field Guide Weed Management Native Plant Conservation Local Ecology

Garden Escapees & Other Weeds of Bushland & Reserves of the Mid North Coast N.S.W. is the go-to field guide for anyone who lives, walks or gardens between Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and the hinterland ranges. In 152 tightly focused pages this soft-cover manual pinpoints more than 100 high-risk ornamental plants that have jumped the back fence and are now smothering local rainforests, dunes and creek-lines. Each weed is illustrated with sharp colour photographs and clear thumbnail maps that show exactly where it has been recorded, so weekend bush-regenerators can tell at a glance whether the shrub they are staring at is a harmless native or the next bitou bush disaster.

What makes this book special is its strictly local lens. Instead of generic “eastern-Australia” advice, every species note tells you how the weed behaves on the Mid North Coast—where it seeds, how fast it spreads in high-rainfall catchments, and which native species it typically replaces. The concise control notes prioritise low-chemical methods that work in the region’s warm, humid climate, and the calendar at the back tells you the perfect month to slash, spray or hand-pull for maximum impact with minimal effort.

Clean, tidy pages and a rugged laminated cover mean the guide can live in the glovebox or backpack without falling apart. Because it was produced by the Mid North Coast Weeds Committee, copies were never stocked in big-box bookstores; most were handed out at community workshops and are now hard to find second-hand. Securing a clean copy today gives you a durable, hyper-local reference that will save hours of web-searching and help keep the coast’s bushland reserves intact for the next generation.

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