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Thread: What's Goin' On - In My Garden!

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    Default Re: What's Goin' On - In My Garden!

    Interesting to see your "green manure", Jimmy.
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    Just loving your pics and valuable advice JimmmyCee, I'm in awe at your wonderful layout of your gardening in small spaces.
    I am thinking of copying your ideas, such a super way to grow stuff in small places.
    Very many thanks for your imput and please keep posting, learning new stuff is good!

    Old, I'm loving your ferns, I have a few growing in the garden in shady places. They are hardy, come up year after year, I love them. They add an air of tropicana, which I love.
    I did once buy a rather large Dicksonia antartica tree fern which sadly didn't survive our cold and wet winter climate.
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    Good thinkin' Jimmy, love the raised beds also!

    Trish, I've been thinking of getting a Dicksonia, but I don't think it would survive here either - way too dry & I'd never be able to keep the water up to them.
    Strangely, although they come from Victoria & Tasmania, & have antarctica in the name, they don't tolerate snow or freezing conditions for long.
    They grow in gullies & in the forest understory, with heavy shade, copious water & very high humidity.

    Here's a list of my "Wanted" additions to the Gondwana garden. (subject to prevailing conditions)

    Banksia
    Grevillea
    Hakea
    Protea
    Lambertia
    Lomatia
    Stenocarpus
    Waratah
    Triunia
    Tree Ferns = Cyatheaceae & Dicksoniaceae
    Cycads

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    Today's pics - Stylosa - only flourishes on rubbish soil so planted right under the house so it is growing in builders' rubble, primulae to show that "Spring flower" is a void concept and the first sign of a snowdrop coming through.
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    Yes it's amazing how some plants will thrive under the toughest conditions, even orchids will flower & produce seed pods & offshoots, right before they snuff it - in a last ditched attempt to propagate themselves.
    I once tried my best to kill an Aloe vera that had become unruly, so I upended it onto the top of my compost heap that I set alight from time to time.
    Would you believe that over a period of about a week, that Aloe righted itself & would have happily grown at the top of the slow burning heap, if I hadn't sent it to the big garden in the sky, via the local rubbish tip - who knows, it may have taken over the place by now a-la Triffid style.

    Although not in my garden (a neighbours) I have coveted this plant since I first moved here.
    Unfortunately, it would not fit with my theme of a Gondwana garden, but I do enjoy looking/drooling at it next door.
    It's a Bismarck Palm, endemic to Madagascar, & this one would cost at least A$1500 - $1600 to buy here - my neighbour has 3 the same in his yard.


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    Corr! Swoon, faint!
    What a beauty Old, I would sell my soul (ermm, well, just sayin' in case Old Nick sees this!) for just one of those magnificent specimens.
    I dearly love palms, and Bismarckia nobilis is just sooo beautiful. No-one around here sells palm trees, I guess I would have to grow my own from seed, although they are not too hardy - pushing it at -5C (when mature that is).
    Another reason why I would love this palm is that it is native to Madagascar, where my OH was stationed when he was in RAF.

    Madelaine, loved your pic of the winter flowering Iris - my primulas are flowering away, but something (birds/slugs)? are eating all the flowers away, which saddens me. One minute there is a clump of pretty flowers, next day - gone, eaten way, just stalks remaining. We do have a very bad bird problem here, swarms of 'em as we have allotments just over the hedge from our garden.
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    G'day all
    Well here's a few more pix of a couple of the siblings of Chiloschista pusillum I spoke of in post one.
    Notice that these seem to be a darker shade? that maybe due to my leaving these spikes to open fully, prior to photographing them (than I did B4) or it may be the normal variance between seedlings???
    In any event, I'm still chuffed at managing to raise & flower these right from their flask! "Pats self on back"




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    Just to point out the variance between siblings from the same seed flask, notice the colour difference here. (as per previous post)
    NOTE: the pic doesn't do real justice, as they are 3 distinct colours in real life!
    Not to mention the fact that the spikes open at different times!


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    I ventured out this morning to take a photo of these two. They should not be flowering
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    And here are my 'dormant' orchids

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    G'day all - here's a couple more orchids in flower.
    First is a mini Dendrobium delacourii var alba, native to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos & Vietnam.
    This is its first miserable time flowering & hopefully, things will only get better from here!
    I have included a net shot of what a good one should look like.
    Notice also that I have taken to sticking plants onto their mount with silicon clear sealant. The type plumbers use in kitchens/bathrooms etc.
    This is instead of tying them on. This stuff works great after setting, is inert & remains flexible, so plants can be carefully peeled off if needed.





    Second, is Phalaenopsis Harlequin ? unknown ID (but is from the harlequin type)


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