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Never thought I'd start a blog, as I have too many interests, but I've just
realised that I want to do one on gardening. http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-AC1862.15431921092007@news... Never thought I'd start a blog, as I have too many interests, but I've just realised that I want to do one on gardening. http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ Nice one Chookie. One bit of advice - don't feed snails to your chooks as they can give the chooks parasites. Feeding them to ducks is OK. |
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"Chookie" wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-AC1862.15431921092007@news... Never thought I'd start a blog, as I have too many interests, but I've just realised that I want to do one on gardening. http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ Oooh - off to read. It might inspire me to actually put some thought into one I've thought about doing ... on children's books. (sorta strange how the librarian wants to blog about gardening, and the botanist wants to blog about books eh?) Amanda |
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"Flowergirl" wrote in message ... "Chookie" wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-AC1862.15431921092007@news... Never thought I'd start a blog, as I have too many interests, but I've just realised that I want to do one on gardening. http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ Oooh - off to read. It might inspire me to actually put some thought into one I've thought about doing ... on children's books. (sorta strange how the librarian wants to blog about gardening, and the botanist wants to blog about books eh?) Amanda Following up as I'm apparently too verbose to post a comment at your blog.... Great garden description ... (and I say *yes* to a digital camera, even if only I get to finally see a pic of *you* in your garden to put a face to the name). Do you know the species of tea-tree that was native to the area? I know a few good Qld species that do OK on heavy clays (and possibly M.quinquenervia would also be OK in NSW) and wonder what the NSW species are that are found in the western Sydney area.... M.thymifolia? M.nodosa? M.erubescens? M.decora? M.linariifolia (sp?)? other spp??? Amanda |
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"Flowergirl" wrote: Following up as I'm apparently too verbose to post a comment at your blog.... Great garden description ... (and I say *yes* to a digital camera, even if only I get to finally see a pic of *you* in your garden to put a face to the name). Do you know the species of tea-tree that was native to the area? I know a few good Qld species that do OK on heavy clays (and possibly M.quinquenervia would also be OK in NSW) and wonder what the NSW species are that are found in the western Sydney area.... M.thymifolia? M.nodosa? M.erubescens? M.decora? M.linariifolia (sp?)? other spp??? M. decora and M. nodosa, principally. Most of the others do well here too, along with bottlebrushes. The pity is that most plant breeding work has gone into Sydney sandstone species, which generally don't cope in western Sydney. I'm still waiting for someone to bring out Acacia pubescens (Downy Wattle) commercially. It's a small (3m) wattle, with pretty blue-green ferny leaves, and scented flowers. Perfect for today's smaller gardens! The problem is propagation -- it tends to sucker rather than grow from seed, and seed viability is really low (I suppose tissue-culture must be too expensive?). -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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"Chookie" wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-E23B41.22473626092007@news... In article , "Flowergirl" wrote: Following up as I'm apparently too verbose to post a comment at your blog.... Great garden description ... (and I say *yes* to a digital camera, even if only I get to finally see a pic of *you* in your garden to put a face to the name). Do you know the species of tea-tree that was native to the area? I know a few good Qld species that do OK on heavy clays (and possibly M.quinquenervia would also be OK in NSW) and wonder what the NSW species are that are found in the western Sydney area.... M.thymifolia? M.nodosa? M.erubescens? M.decora? M.linariifolia (sp?)? other spp??? M. decora and M. nodosa, principally. Most of the others do well here too, along with bottlebrushes. The pity is that most plant breeding work has gone into Sydney sandstone species, which generally don't cope in western Sydney. I'm still waiting for someone to bring out Acacia pubescens (Downy Wattle) commercially. It's a small (3m) wattle, with pretty blue-green ferny leaves, and scented flowers. Perfect for today's smaller gardens! The problem is propagation -- it tends to sucker rather than grow from seed, and seed viability is really low (I suppose tissue-culture must be too expensive?). I guess that depends on how well a commercial propagator will think the nursery plants will sell. Actually, there are a lot of plants like that that I *want* but can't easily get for want of a commercial propagator. One thing about the drought is that I do seem to be seeing a wider range of native plants being offered for sale at our local nursery. Amanda (who's just been told that for our tenth wedding anniversary (today) we're off to pick up a Wollemia nobilis ... a fine example of a vegetatively propagated plant that appears to be selling well |
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"Flowergirl" wrote: Amanda (who's just been told that for our tenth wedding anniversary (today) we're off to pick up a Wollemia nobilis ... a fine example of a vegetatively propagated plant that appears to be selling well Congratulations on the anniversary and the Wollemi pine! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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