Choosing the Managing your garden for Contact us Phytophthora Dieback For more information on Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Choose for right nursery Tamara Kabat Phytophthora Dieback is a common and devastating Black-Cockatoo Conservation Officer disease of native plant communities in the south T 9287 2204 Black-Cockatoos west of WA. The disease is caused by a number of E [email protected] Choosing the right nursery is water moulds called Phytophthora, which means W birdlife.org.au/carnabys/plants-for-carnabys just as important as choosing ‘plant destroyer’ in Latin. The most destructive the right plants! and widespread type, Phytophthora cinnamomi For more information on Phytophthora Dieback (pronounced Fy-toff-thor-a cin-a-mo-my), threatens Katherine Sambrooks Did you know that a single more than 40% of our native south west plants, Dieback Working Group Coordinator diseased nursery plant could including many in important Carnaby’s habitat. affect your entire garden? T 9360 2605 Phytophthora can infect Phytophthora Dieback is E [email protected] spread as spores in soil, common garden plants, such W dwg.org.au as roses and azaleas, as well water and plant material, as native plants. The Nursery attacking and killing the Industry Accreditation roots of healthy plants. Scheme Australia (NIASA) Gardening with plants, Perth Region is a national program for soil improvers and NRM adopting best management waterwise mulch from and hygiene practices in NIASA accredited production nurseries. NIASA 1 NIASA nursery hygiene sources helps to ensure Phytophthora cinnamomi1 accreditation ensures the that you are not bringing nursery is regularly tested for plant diseases. Phytophthora Dieback into your garden. This project is funded by Perth Region NRM through the If you suspect Phytophthora Dieback may already be Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country program. We’ve partnered with selected retail native plant in your garden, there is plenty you can do. Wash any nurseries that have sourced NIASA grown plants to gloves or tools after use near sick plants; replace dead Table Information reference: Western Australian Herbarium (1998-2013). promote the ‘Choose for Black-Cockatoos’ label. Find FloraBase –the Western Australian Flora. Department of Environment and plants with resistant plant species; and treat sick trees Conservation. http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/ a partner nursery near you at: and shrubs with phosphite, to slow the disease spread Acknowledgements: Plant selection advice from Teagan Johnston and Tony birdlife.org.au/carnabys/plants-for-carnabys and protect the plants. Visit dwg.org.au for more Kirkby cover 1 2 3 information about the disease and its treatment. Images by Georgina Steytler , Chris Dunne , Jean & Fred Hort , Keith Lightbody , Claire Barton4, Christine Groom5, Robyn Pickering6, Katherine Sambrooks7, Tamara Kabat8

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BirdLife Western Australia 167 Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat, WA 6014 T 08 9387 7749  | [email protected] 6 7 Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo feeding on Banksia sessilis Injecting a Bottlebrush with phosphite facebook.com/BirdLifeAustralia  | @BirdlifeOz ABN 75 149 124 774 birds are in our nature AUSTRALIA Printed on 100% recycled paper Carnaby’s Black- How you can choose for black-cockatoos Hakea trifurcata2 Hakea lissocarpha5 Cockatoo By choosing the right native plants for your garden, you can provide food and roosting trees for Carnaby’s. Common name Growth Height Flower Habitat Important native plants for Carnaby’s food in the (Noongar name) Botanical name form (m) Flower colour time provided Perth region include banksias and hakeas, as well as Marri and Jarrah, which also offer food and night-time Slender Banksia Banksia attenuata medium tree 0.4–10 yellow Oct–Feb food Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo roosting places. (Biara) (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) Firewood Banksia Banksia menziesii* medium tree 1–8 pink/red/yellow Feb–Oct food is unique to Western Our plant selection provides variety in shape and size (Bwongka) Australia. Its distinctive to suit every garden, as well as different flowering Acorn Banksia Banksia prionotes* medium tree 8–10 cream/orange Feb–Aug food ‘wee-lar’ call and larrikin times to supply food throughout the year. Each plant (Bwongka) is used differently by Carnaby’s — for flowers, seeds, behavour have made it an Parrot Bush Banksia sessilis large shrub 0.5–5 cream-yellow Apr–Nov food iconic species, and inspired bark and grubs — and some may be used by other (Pudjuk) black-cockatoos, especially Marri and Jarrah. Urchin Dryandra Banksia undata large shrub 0.9–3 yellow Jul–Oct food its common Noongar Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo names, ‘Ngoorlark’ and feeding on Marri nut4 (Bwongka) Certain plants will grow better ‘Weelark’. Lesser Bottlebrush Callistemon phoeniceus* small tree 1–6 red Sep–Dec food on the Swan Coastal Plain or in (Tubada) the Perth Hills. Several species Once common across the south-west, Carnaby’s Marri Corymbia calophylla large tree 40 white/pink Dec–May food, roost, also come in smaller varieties. (Kardan) nest has been lost from over a third of its former range, Ask your nursery for guidance and numbers have declined to 50% compared to Jarrah Eucalyptus marginata large tree 40 white-cream/pink Jun–Jan food, roost, on which plants will grow best (Cherring or Jarrah) nest the 1960s. A nationally-listed endangered species, in your soil, or how to prune Fuchsia Grevillea Grevillea bipinnatifida medium shrub 0.3–2 orange/red Jun–Dec food Carnaby’s breeds mainly in the Wheatbelt and larger plants to best fit into your migrates to coastal areas over winter, making the garden. Honey Bush Hakea lissocarpha medium shrub 0.4–1.5 white-cream/yellow/pink May–Sep food Perth region one of the most critical feeding areas for (Djanda) the northern and western populations. Use shrubs like Parrot Bush and Two-leaved Hakea Hakea trifurcata large shrub 1.5–3 white-cream/pink Apr–Oct food hakeas to create dense hedges Banksia attenuata8 (Berrung) Habitat clearance and degradation are the major around fence lines and chicken Wavy-leaved Hakea Hakea undulata medium shrub 1–2 white Jul–Oct food threats to Carnaby’s, and development in the Perth pens, providing security and windbreaks. Growing (Djanda) region is rapidly reducing the remaining habitat in the these plants in thickets provides plenty of cockatoo *Available in dwarf varieties area. By using the right native plants in your garden, food and also supports small birds and mammals. you can do something to help! Don’t plant too close to roadsides as the cockatoos For more information about the plants listed, go to may get hit if they fly out into traffic. our website www.birdlife.org.au/carnabys/plants- for-carnabys. For a larger list of species you can use Make clean, fresh water available to help the in your garden, take a look at www.dec.wa.gov.au/ cockatoos and other wildlife in your area. They will use plantsforcarnabys and use the search tool to find ponds, water troughs and even garden bird baths! suitable plants for your soil type and location.

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