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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 01/01/2009 : 05:11:42
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This purple African Daisy just keeps on growing no matter what the weather - loves the heat. It occasionally needs a trim to keep it tidy but that is all I do to it. I have a couple of the purple as well as the white, are very rarely without a flower and good for filling in gaps.
I planted this petunia in Sept 07 - 15mths ago - and it is still going strong. It has been trimmed back twice (I will be trimming it again soon) and rarely gets watered except by rain. I have it planted around the bulbs to give some colour and fill in the gaps when the bulbs die back.
This dark red crucifix orchid flowers well and doesn't get any special treatment.
The dianella never gets watered and still has a few flowers and bright blue berries on it after a couple of months flowering.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 06:40:09
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Oh yes the old favourites Gail I grow two of those.
I also have lots of other flowering plants I dont water
Great for a bit of colour at no expense or much maintenance
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 07:03:08
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Lovely Gail. I have the african daisies also.
I also have a lot of roses that never get watered. These are the toughest of the lot. The 50 scabrosa bare roots I bought 18 months ago are powering down the driveway with only what falls from the sky and no mulch.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 07:35:45
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Yes I have a few roses that only get what falls from the sky Pamela, climbers and ramblers where they are too far away from dragging the three hoses joined together from the front of house, and too much of a effort to drag the same hose around the back of the house and over to them..
But then it has been a good year for rain here and that certainly makes a difference.
Hot and dry for many years living on bucketed water a different story..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 07:50:24
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Gail do you have the name of that African daisy.Pitta
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 10:33:18
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The roses in cemetries, even in SEQ, that have survived for hundreds of years are testimony to the toughness of roses where nothing else survives, even in hot and dry for years on end.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 11:30:53
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It does rain sometimes Pamela..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 12:06:39
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Gwen, I don't know its full proper name only that it is an osteospermum. I will put a piece in your parcel which I will send next week.
Roses are one plant we don't want here  they might have a pretty flower that is nice to admire in someone elses garden but neither of us like them otherwise.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 19:00:47
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Thank you Gail .
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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