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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 18/01/2008 : 04:58:07
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Many of the plants are going ahead beautifully after the rain.
Buckinghamia "Ivory Curl" is starting to flower.
Grevillea "Orange Marmalade" is growing and flowering well.
My second smaller Melastoma "Native Tibouchina" has nearly doubled in size and has lots of buds.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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Waratah
gardener
Australia
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Posted - 18/01/2008 : 06:07:19
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I love that Tibouchina and wish I had the space for one but it probably wouldn't like the frost.
It's amazing how our drought tolerant plants seem to love the rain. My native garden looks like a jungle with many plants having doubled in size since the beginning of Summer. I just can't seem get to it because it's either too hot (I suffer from eczema and getting hot makes it worse) or raining as it is now.
I think that Buckinghamia is perfumed isn't it?
Waratah
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 18/01/2008 : 07:18:04
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Yes the footpaths are alive with Ivory Curl here Gail and what a sight the flowers are so beautiful, not a sign of flowers on my one yet planted 02  Though it has shot up since the rain.
Gail Your Melastoma looks good and Waratah I would not plant it either unless it was close to other shrubs/trees for frost protection, look what happened to mine.
I Love Grevillea except that big one..
Well as long as it not planted in a neighbours garden.
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Fouquieria
assistant gardener
USA
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Posted - 18/01/2008 : 11:01:24
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I have a Firewheel tree which is about six feet tall now with four main stems and right next to it I have an Ivory Curl tree which isn't even two feet yet. How big do they have to be before I can expect them to bloom?
-Ron-
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 11:15:16
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Warah, the ivory curl has some perfume, not strong but pretty. The flowers on mine haven't opened yet and there isn't that many flower buds yet either but shouldn't be too long.
Sunny and Ron, I can't remember how old that Ivory Curl is, definitely been planted no more than 5 or 6yrs and flowered in January 2006 but I think it flowered a little the year before that. It is about 2m high now but hasn't grown much the last two years due to being so dry and that area is rarely watered.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 12:03:46
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Well in that case mine should have flowered much earlier as not only was it getting watered it is in a type of raised bed and all the water when it does rain pools not far from the right of it.. I am going down to have a look.
No flowers though it looks healthy enough its taller than me probably about 180cms
Perhaps I should feed it Gail what do you think...
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 12:12:35
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I have never fed ours, the trees have to find their own food around here  Ours is very bushy so yours could still be a little young yet. Yours looks nice, healthy and green, and the leaves are big. Do you feed it now as it may have had too much food and put its energy into growing instead of flowering?
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 12:27:49
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No I have not fed it Gail I don't feed any of the Natives there.
But I do feed all the Bamboo at the back of them lawn food when they start their growing season in November..
Good Things Come To Those That Wait ... I am Tired Of Waiting |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 12:31:19
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I wonder if that has anything to do with it as your leaves are so green compared to mine. You probably don't need to feed the bamboo as much anymore as haven't they reached the height you wanted?
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/01/2008 : 12:48:35
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Yes they have Gail, but they are growing in a hill of pure clay that came out of the stump holes the house is sitting on and they are not in very good condition they are full of scale I was hoping this yearly boost will help the bamboo along and I only feed them from the fence side seeing I have Natives Grevillea banksii and that blue Lilly pilly in the front.
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otamot
head gardener
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Posted - 19/01/2008 : 00:31:30
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| thats a lovely grevillea kito, I love the ones with the small spidery flowers like that, a very pretty colour. the native tibouchina looks gorgous too. |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 19/01/2008 : 05:18:55
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THanks Ota, I prefer these ones too, I also like the bigger leaves.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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