I've heared that the tea tree plantations use the spent stems/leaves of their oil harvest for a mulch. Since the aromatics of rosemary come from the oils in the leaves, once these oils have been extracted by steam distilation, i'd doubt you could find much other usage for the stems and leaves. Some other applications you could use for your plantation may include herbal cooking oils, vinegars, fragrant cloth bags filled with herbs for placing in linen cupboards or under pillows, etc.

goldhills - I'm sure its a swallowtail of some sort - - one idea is to get into the University of Southern Queensland or Griffith University and find out who is doing a thesis or doctorate on butterflies of the region - - that's how I got a contact for the bats around home. I'm off to a biology residential in armidale in two weeks - I'll ask around the University of New England to see who the experts are. It's amazing - most professors or doctorate students are more than keen to help out individuals with their queries. Also - the Queensland museum has a great enquiry centre - they might be worth checking out. I got all of the sites through google and I don't have them bookmarked cheers Tony

Took me a while to find this posting as well as bneing able to log in. Now almost 12 months later and I am in the suburbs of Far East Gippsland. Gradually making progress in what was a non gaRDEN. been here two years. Love those natives,but will take a few years to build up the stock. Always sticking cuttings in, some successes. Errinunda Rain forest = ferns, waratahs, not far away. Marvellous coastal heathland, lots of flowers in bloom and ground orchids in surrounding forests. LOve it.

It could be a form of canker , where on the tree is it weeping from?