Gardens and Growing Stuff

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I now have four wattle trees. The one on the left is barely more than a twig with a few leaves and roots. If they can all survive and thrive I hope it will be a nice informal screen for the edge of my property. I am half expecting some or all of them to die, but if they live I will always value them.

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The wattle tree experiment is not going so well. I think two of them are dead, but I'm going to wait and see if they can revive themselves. Another big failure was my replanting of some very jolly daisies I found in the bush, which I thought might be the native brachycome. I have now discovered they are African daisies and one of the nastiest introduced species choking natives in this area. They will have to die. I have some actual brachycome seeds which I will sow in their place.

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Another experiment is to attempt propagation of this impressive plant I saw growing on sand dunes at Tuross Head. It appears to be coast wattle. I took some cuttings and I'm trying to follow precise instructions for getting them to take root.

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I'm pleased that the easiest plant to propagate - pigface - is already flowering just days after I transplanted it from a different beach where it is thriving. I also bought three different coloured varieties ($4 each), one of which is also flowering. This is the beach one, it's about a metre long.

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