Thanks for your initial contact Rebecca – I have had a bit of trouble negotiating this site – I wonder if you can see my recent post and photos directly below your post?

Ok – thanks for the feed back and sorry for the delay in keeping my inquiry in the discussion.
I have finally managed to take a few photos – the last being the distance of about 35m from my southern Melanoxylon tree windbreak which was planted by the previous owners many years ago to my new orchard.
Coffee rock outcrops but deep clay underneath…

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We have successfully used woolly bush as a perimeter hedge around the garden as a windbreak, we prune before winter storms arrive to keep it thick and secure in the ground. Unsure of the lifespan but ours has been in for 9 years and going well. I will definitely use in a mixed planting windbreak situation in the paddock and protect from livestock.

Hi Geoff, it really all depends on your soil type and location in the landscape (for example, gravelly soils, high and dry or heavy soils in winter wet area).

I could definitely make suggestions with more information.

Cheers

Great to hear from you Charles – I will take some photos today and post them to give you an idea of my problem.

No expert here, but I think Woolly bush are great. Adenanthos sericeus. Also are potential fire retardant. Very little science behind it, just rumours. I guess it depends on how your budget is. Woolly bush are available at nurseries in 5L pots, you can get mature ones ready for the wind. I would defiantly run some irrigation for this summer if…

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Hi Geoff, great to have you posting and lets hope more take the opportunity to use this communities collective knowledge. Have you got a picture and a location that your happy to share to help with our suggestions, tree solutions can be very location specific. Cheers, Charles.

Hello – this is my first post/ inquiry – so here goes.
I have a mature windbreak planted by the original owners of my property perhaps 25 years ago – they are predominately Melanoxylon and are now over 20m tall – leaving big gaps underneath for wind intrusion.
I recently planted a 50 tree mixed fruit orchard in a fully netted enclosure around…

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Hi Jay, Charles here, I am just editing the audio files/recordings from the talks and will send them on to Kate shortly, then she can add the pdf’s of the presentations and the various links to our farms etc and send it out to everyone that attended. So coming soon. Glad you liked it. Cheers, Charles Otway

Thank you for hosting this event! What a great array of guest speakers! I learnt so much. Will you post links to the relevant information?