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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 11/10/2008 : 17:03:55
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So this beautiful Aussie native Dianella from a little while back.
Finally has berries, not blue yet but green So getting there.
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
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Posted - 11/10/2008 : 17:14:40
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Getting there  mine are covered in small green ones too, only half their final size yet.
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 |
Edited by - Gail on 11/10/2008 17:18:35 |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
 Posted - 11/10/2008 : 19:41:31
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These are about pea size Gail, how big do they grow too...
I can hardly wait to see these beautiful blue berries.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Jacqueline
assistant gardener
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 22:22:36
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Mine are a bit slower...still have the wee flowers on mine.....they seem to droop into other plants a lot....oops perhaps more of my overcrowding problem....can't wait to see the blue berries.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 12/10/2008 : 04:51:38
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The berries get fairly large, especially compared to the size of the flowers, up to about 1cm.
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
10809 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 08:10:33
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Does overcrowding make any difference Jacqueline 
Lots of my plants are like that, clumps look better than one plant.
Even squashed up next to a plant that is no relation..
That's small pea size Gail not fully matured, so a little way to go yet.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 17/10/2008 : 09:58:16
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The first of the blue berries. These ones aren't as big as usual this time - only about 6 or 7mm across.
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
10809 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 22:12:09
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As fast as these berries coloured up the birds ate then.
They must be full of something as they left these ones alone..
These berries are more a purple than that blue your berries are Gail..
They would be the one cm wide.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 04:33:10
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Birds don't seem to worry about our berries much, a few disappear but not many. Mine get a fair bit of shade now so could affect the colour of the berries but I find the colour doesn't show up as well in pictures as it doesn't capture the "glow" - they are like little neon lights.
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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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
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Posted - 26/02/2009 : 05:22:29
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Is that Dianella Nigra? It's native here too, I planted some just last year underneath some lancewood, I love them, mine have there berries turning purple now.
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 26/02/2009 : 06:33:59
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nice ones MA, cute berries 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 08:33:21
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Gail strange about the colour this plant would get about 50% shade now..
Di I am not sure I though it may have been Dianella revoluta.
Gail would know as she gave me this plant..
Thanks Cheryl its a dainty plant..
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 09:50:32
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I have no idea which one it is as it was here when we moved here but I'm more inclined to think it is revoluta.
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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Berries On Dianella