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15-09-2019 09:40 AM
15-09-2019 09:40 AM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Pruned all the dead wood off a lemon tree (which I am so pleased to have 🍋).
A neighbour has given me 4 x kangaroo paw plants.
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15-09-2019 04:57 PM
15-09-2019 04:57 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Love Kangaroo Paws @Former-Member, have not yet succeeded in keeping one alive.
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15-09-2019 05:39 PM
15-09-2019 05:39 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
The plants are in need of potting up @Smc thought if I did that with native mix I could sit them in an oblong planter rather than put them in ground (Don't really have a spot for them).
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15-09-2019 06:36 PM
15-09-2019 06:36 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
mine need repotting too @Former-Member , @Smc , @Adge , @Determined , @Appleblossom
trying to decide to put them in the garden or in bigger pots
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15-09-2019 09:10 PM
15-09-2019 09:10 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Kangaroo paws don't like wet feet @Shaz51 , you might find they do better in pots, particularly in the wet season.
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17-09-2019 09:39 PM
17-09-2019 09:39 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Have done a bit of pruning over the last couple of days.
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18-09-2019 08:59 AM
18-09-2019 08:59 AM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Had a day out with Hubby yesterday. We spent most of it in and around a regional botanical garden. They had a nursery on site. A couple of plants followed me home, suprise suprise. 😄
The day before yesterday was a big "in the garden" day for me. I finished planting up a half finished garden bed. I don't think there's room for much more in there now. It's a mixed bed. There was already garlic planted at the back, I've added in a punnet of Chinese Cabbages, there's a few herbs and leafy greens scattered throught it, and the rest is annual and perennial flowering plants surrounding a young pomegranate tree.
I've put two peonies in that bed, another in a different bed (which is also now about "at capacity") and a fourth one will be going in the bed I weeded out a few days ago. Two are named varieties, the others are unnamed, but as they were the "leftover stock" of a very good nurseryman when he closed his business, I'm eagerly expecting them to be good ones.
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18-09-2019 07:25 PM
18-09-2019 07:25 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Nice @Smc 😀
Gave away another succulent plant (large) today to friends who visited.
Think another of the bulbs might be a scilla peruviana hughii - certainly has the form of the regular scilla, but not the blue colour.
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18-09-2019 07:50 PM
18-09-2019 07:50 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Kangaroo Paws are mostly from areas with sandy soils - eg here, where most of them are native to.
Yep, as @Former-Member said, they don't like wet feet at all.
Potted K Paws is a good idea, they might be happier with that.
I don't have any at the moment.
Despite having pure sand for soil, I still managed to have them all die (years ago).
I am very happy with my Bull Banksia though, they can be hard to grow. It's now about 4m high.
My Nasturtiums got cut back, on Tuesday. I love them, with their different flower colours.
Yet they have covered the entire back yard, in recent years - they climbed the trees & bushes (& almost smothered some of them).
The Nasturiums came from just one packet of seeds (about 20 years ago). They self-seeded themselves out of the original pots, then around the entire back yard.
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18-09-2019 10:37 PM
18-09-2019 10:37 PM
Re: Self care by growing a garden
Successfully growing a bull banksia = 🙌 (a horticultural triumph)
Nasturtiums smothering other plants = 😵
Getting the nasturtiums cut back = 😀