my dad Mick Liber's homepage
my cousins in Canberra, the Westons

Homepage of Peter McCrudden(who was best man at my wedding
Geordie McBain's Page
Brett Baker's Page
Stacey's Photo Album
Homepage of Chris Jones(who has a funny page)

The Guardian(I miss UK newspapers)
Sydney Morning Herald(our local rag)
David Wingrove(author of Chung Kuo series - great reading)

Cyndi's site(this has ALL the lnks one ever needs)
ANESFHS(Aberdeen & Northeast Scotland Family History Society)
Aberdeenshire Message Board(Rootsweb)
Highland FHS
Scottish Family History Society-Publications & Sales
Parish IGI Batch Numbers(For using on the LDS Familysearch site)
Bowman Genealogy Website(distant relatives of my wife's in far off Texas)
Genforum(Surname & country notice boards)
A Gen-Fraud discussion group.
Cameron Research(for getting extracts from New Register House in Scotland)
Leith Hutton's BDM exchange(building up a database of Aus. & NZ Births,Deaths & Marriages)
Co. Antrim Website(a genealogy and general discussion site by Liam McFaul)
West Riding Surname Interest Group (Yorkshire - lotsa resources!)
Clan MacLennan(a genealogy and general discussion site about Clan MacLennan)

Craigyhill(a place near Larne, N. Ireland)

Astral Wizard(for Heroes of Might & Magic III)

SOCIETIES

• ASGAP(The Association of Societies For Growing Australian Plants) -the umbrella goup of the state-based societies; a great online resource
  
• SGAP - NSW chapter, now called the Australian Plant Society
  
• Australian Plants Society - Inner Sydney Branch
  
• The Grevillea Study Group now has a homepage
  
• WA Wildflower Society - WA SGAP really..
• The Victorian Naturalist, a 2nd-monthly publication by the Field Naturalists' Club Of Victoria (has articles on the bibliography of recent literature on banksias - Feb '97 and Feb '00, being the last two.
  
• The UK based Australasian Plant Society, for those in the UK.
  
• Earth Sanctuaries limited, the brainchild of John Wamsley, and Warrawong Sanctuary.
• Birds Australia
• A group dedicated to saving the Red Tailed Black Cockatoo - SE subspecies (Calyptorynchus banksii graptogyne)

  LOCAL LISTS / RESOURCES

• Native Plants Of Sydney -by Patty Jansen of Capricornia Publications (some really nice photos here!)
  
• Friends Of Lane Cove National Park
  
• Sydney Garden - I think they're from the northern suburbs somewhere.
  
• A list of the flora and fauna of Parramatta Park, very comprehensive
  
• Bush Tucker - recipes with native plants
  
• Orkology Kreations Software, a site by Greg Steenbeeke, with CD-ROMs of Plants of Northern NSW, and an Orchidopaedia for sale. Some of his orchid pictures from here, and here, I have linked to off my local plant list. Thanks Greg.
  

  FORUMS / DISCUSSION GROUPS

• Gardenweb Forums - Native Australian Plants here, and bonsai here
• Australian Gardens Online Community
  
• Banksia discussion group
• Grevillea discussion group
• Hakea discussion group
• Isopogon & Petrophile discussion group
• Rutaceae (including Boronias, Correas, Croweas, Eriostemons, Philothecas, Zierias, Phebaliums & Leionemas) discussion group
• Eucalyptus discussion group
• bushfood discussion group
• General Australian Gardening discussion group
• Another General Australian Gardening discussion group
• Aussie Seed and Plant Exchange
• Aussie garden exchange
• general protea discussion group (worldwide)
• cycad discussion group (worldwide)
• treefern discussion group (worldwide)
• Stylidium (trigger plant) discussion group
• A general discussion group about any other Australian plants not covered above (!)
• Another general discussion group about any other Australian plants not covered above

  OTHER GARDENS

• The Illawarra Grevillea Garden - I've never been but sounds good. I'll try and make one of their open days.
  
• Pine Lodge, Cornwall -some nice people growing grevilleas in the UK(!)
  
• Royal Botanic Gardens - Sydney (not overly informative yet but a nice place to visit)
  
• A View From Yallaroo - Warren Sheather's garden up on the Northern Tablelands..
  
• Bergnet - a gardener in nearby Canterbury, about 7 minutes down the road.
  
• John Warren's garden in Canberra
  
• Steve Lonker's place (another overseas lover of Australian plants) in Maryland in the US of A.
  
• Lee Mullen's place in Cornwall in the UK.
  

  TREES

• Old Trees in The Netherlands and Western Europe - fascinating Dutch Website by a guy called Jeroen Philippona
• Some ancient trees of the wood in the UK.
• The Tree Register of the British Isles

  PHOTOS

• CWIS(Campus Wide Information Service) of Murdoch University - great flower photos.
  
• Bob Litchfield, the guy who did the great photos at CWIS has his own website. I also borrowed his scarlet banksia for my button!
  
• Australian Natural Objects (nice banksia photos here)
  

  MEDIA (including one bookshop)

• Burke's Backyard-a surprisingly informative TV show, actually.
  
• Gardening Australia -a bloomin' marvelous little show.
  
• Global Garden - an online Australian gardening magazine
  
• Florilegium - A specialist plant bookshop
  
• The Bay Area Gardener - An amusing columnist from San Francisco, who gives Banksia speciosa a plug (and hence has taste) :)
  

  GROWING TIPS/ARTICLES

• Growing Banksias - some ideas from a nursery network.
  
• Hakeas - same nursery as above. Good introduction.
  
• Tree Information from the Queensland Government (lotsa .pdf files ta download, make sure you have your Adobe Acrobat ready.....
  
• Some notes on designing an Australian fauna-friendly garden in Sydney sandstone.
  
• Some ideas for fire retardant plants (actually a Blue Mountains Webpage but applicable here)
  
• Lomatia tasmanica, a SW Tasmanian oddity
  

  NATIVES AS BONSAI

• A gallery of Aussie Native Bonsai, from Cairns, Qld.
  
• Native Bonsai from Western Australia
• Some ideas about Native Bonsai
  
• Sunflow (actually a seed supplier but they have a great photo of a B. serrata bonsai and some info
  
• Single Apex Arch Branch Forest Trees - Eucalyptus - notes on how they grow with potential to bonsai.

  NURSERIES

• Sydney Wildflower Nursery West - where I've bought some of my stuff.
  
• Kuranga Nursery - in Melbourne, alledgedly best range in Australia and fairly cheap home delivery.
  
• Fairhill Nursery - in Queensland, good for different stuff (from Queensland and rainforests, not surprisingly)
  
• Annandale -
  • Indigenous Vegetation
    
  • Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery
    
• Randwick Community Nursery ( a great place to buy local indigenous flora)
  
• Tims Garden Centre (not bad at all as far as general nurseries go; next to Mt Annan BG and big)
• Mountain Nursery - in Kempsey NSW, for native rainforest plants