> > 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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> > 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