"Bill McBride" wrote in message
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I have over the years planted about 600 tube stock native and
non-natives on
my property. I ripped the ground prior to planting stuck them in and
left
them to there own devices (watering them was not really an option).

I am in a position to water, which I will do to improve the
establishment rate.

Most of
the natives have survived but with incredibly variable growth rates.
Two of
the same species planted 5 meters apart and one is now a tree the
other
still a shrub (for want of better description). Others sat in the
ground
doing nothing for years and then sprang into growth. So don't expect
to
plant 100 arcasia ?? and have a nice even hedge of them in 5 years
time.

Neat hedges are not important, something to block the southerly wind is
though!

FWIW planting a few hundred tubes by yourself is a big job if you
value you
time highly.


Yes it will be an effort.

The seed collecting/buying I have done has not resulted in many
plants, I
have one Silver Princess Gum that survived but that is about the end
of the
bought seeds list. Though mostly from neglect at critical times (work
gets
in the way of life often)


As Ned Kelly said "... such is life...."

David