tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67423326253880189872024-03-06T12:23:39.173+08:00Yard Talesstories from a garden in PerthSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-8132932599643818742016-03-08T00:30:00.000+08:002016-03-08T00:30:15.378+08:00B-b-blog Birthday<div class="MsoNormal">
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So what are we doing to celebrate? “Cracking the champers?” you say, checking
the fridge hopefully. Something much better! I’m going to show you a photo I took
early last spring of a boobook owl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the courtyard outside my office window before finally settling into a plane
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-67468494830263101862016-02-11T12:24:00.001+08:002016-02-11T12:24:49.448+08:00Fig Season and Pruning the Tree<div class="MsoNormal">
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time to stuff myself with figs for a month as they all slowly ripen. My tree is
the incredibly delicious White Adriatic which has the advantage of looking great
on a plate with its lime green skin and watermelon pink flesh. Look delicious
don’t they? And they are.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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somewhat fruit-fly resistant. Not totally though - if they are left on the tree
to over-ripen then fruit-fly maggots will appear in the fruit, but it does mean
you can get away with not <a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/about-fruit-fly-exclusion-bags.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">bagging them</span></a>.
Birds are a different matter, they love them. So I have an informal agreement
with them – they get the high fruit and I take the low-hanging ones. Bird
activity in the tree is a good indicator of whether the figs are ripe, something
I can monitor from my spot on the back verandah without getting out of my chair
as the season comes close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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situation. Mine’s in a spot where it gets morning sun plus about an hour in the
afternoon. The big leaves on the fig tree are very prone to wilting in the heat
and I reckon the shade saves it from dehydrating too much when you are in the
middle of a long-running heat wave (like we are now). I have seen some very sad
looking specimens in spots that get full afternoon sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Louis Glowinski, you should aim to prune back to just above one of the ‘joints’
(it looks like an extended knee or elbow) that forms along the branches. Then the
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have two crops per year. The first one is called the breber crop and forms on
the end of last season’s growth. In the variety I have the breber crop remains
as small, hard and inedible as a golf ball so I hardly need to worry about
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-21157403386215377202015-12-23T15:33:00.000+08:002015-12-24T13:20:56.770+08:00I’m Dreaming of a White… Hydrangea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the shops along with the forced poinsettias. A white hydrangea has been on my Christmas
wish list for a long time and this year, when I made a trip to Bunnings (a
chain of large hardware stores), I remembered to check their stock and emerged (hours
later) with this beauty. It seemed
everyone I passed in the store had something to say about its beauty and
lushness and it <b>is</b> truly beautiful
and the most healthy hydrangea I have ever seen. Gorgeous isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-16693960166636087672015-11-24T15:20:00.002+08:002015-11-24T15:20:49.167+08:00Sunflowers of Summers Past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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past. I recently went on holidays to Victoria to visit my sister and her family
and managed to lose my camera on the way back. Thanks to the lady at the Qantas
lost property office for her search and a big thanks to the Thrifty car hire
office who found it and are posting it back! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opportunity to show you some of the sunflowers I’ve grown in the past. When I
first moved in I threw a bunch of seeds around in the spring hoping some would
come up. Not much did. The successes were sunflowers, California poppies and
nasturtiums. Every year I plant sunflower seeds in the spring but I’ve never
had the successes that I had in those early years. Nor have I ever found the seeds
for the first bronze shaded sunflowers again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-23181868358573067102015-10-31T08:00:00.000+08:002015-10-31T08:00:03.779+08:00Happy Halloween – the black cat edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Halloween is coming up this weekend. Maybe I could do a Halloween post I thought
and as my brain ran through a list of Halloween themes (spiders seemed to have
potential) it came to black cats – bingo! Black cats abound around here. My Gardening
Neighbour has two and last weekend I spotted another black cat lurking around,
this one wearing a collar – oh, a stranger…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great hunter of birds (bad cat) and rats (good cat). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he is one of my neighbour’s cats) keeping it clear of other cats... well, as long as
they are smaller. Prior to his arrival on the scene my backyard was like the neighbourhood
cat super highway, being pretty much the only dog-free yard. Once he and his
sister, Blackberry, grew out of kittenhood they joined forces and ran all the
other cats off. Then Shadow staged a backyard coup and now even Blackberry only
manages to sneak in from time to time when he is napping somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-7197190181592203352015-10-27T12:27:00.000+08:002015-10-27T12:27:17.078+08:00A Spring Quickie<div class="MsoNormal">
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grown as a climber next to it. That’s probably my fault since I tend to favour
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-20185807970022849672015-10-16T09:44:00.001+08:002015-10-16T09:44:38.086+08:00Ahhhhh - Spring!<div class="MsoNormal">
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enough to have had the last couple of weeks off work to potter around the house
– it’s been great!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know me apart from blogland, I give away my age with the “Bill and Ben,
Flowerpot Men” reference in the title. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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read a blog post talking about how ‘Mom jeans’ are back in style. Imagine my
surprise when, instead of seeing well pressed jeans with centre leg creases in
the photo or the comfortable sort with elastic waists, there they were, Levi
501s – but they were fashionable only last decade… wait, no… oh, 20 years ago.
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photos. This is the well-known and oh so lovely arum lily which is a declared
weed here in Western Australia. So how can a gorgeous flower, best known for
church floral arrangements for goodness’ sake, be a weed? It “thrives on sandy soil with a periodic high
water table. A serious weed along creek lines and in wet areas of south western
Western Australia” (from this </span><a href="http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&card=H10"><span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">website</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Here it is thriving in the
</span><a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/what-are-you-doing-in-my-swamp.html"><span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">local swamp</span></a><span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">which
I note I wrote about at almost exactly the same time of year last year, mainly
I guess because there’s really nothing happening in my own garden, although it’s
full of the promise of spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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better shots but I was afraid of snakes, I’m sorry to say. My dedication to
this blog doesn’t stretch to risking my life from death by snake bite. This makes
the perfect <i>segue</i> to the photo of the
very dead (good cat) highly venomous young dugite snake I found on my driveway
around about last April (for scale, those are my shoes in the shot). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in early April I read an article about forcing spring flowering bulbs indoors
accompanied by photos which made them look like the next trend in home
accessories. At work I sit next to a north facing window (think south if you’re
in the northern hemisphere) which seemed to me to be the perfect spot for such
a project. With visions of me stunning my work colleagues with masses of
flowering plants on the window sill I put in an order for some daffodil and
tulip bulbs. When they arrived a couple of weeks later I put them in the fridge
to chill for the allotted time frame – 8 weeks for the daffodils, and 12 for
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tried growing daffodils before with extremely limited success and only in the
first season. I’ve never bothered to attempt tulips - they are nothing but a
pipe dream with our warm winters. The successful bulbs that stay in the ground
year round in my garden are Dutch iris (still to come) and the lovely delicate
Snowflake (flowering now and strangely next to impossible to get a clear shot of). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while the bulbs were chilling, I rethought my original plan of growing them in
my office. There were a lot of bulbs for one thing. And even though I’d ordered
up some miniature daffodils for the purpose of filling a pot that had been
lying fallow next to my desk since the languishing plant in it had finally
turned its toes up a couple of years ago, the bulbs weren’t actually <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>smaller than normal. I resigned myself to the fact that my
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to worry, I planted three straggling fronds of Boston fern I dug up from the
garden into the planter on my desk and made fun of them before anyone else had
a chance to. Fingers crossed they will thrive and prove my credentials as a
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wisdom has that spring flowering bulbs should be planted in May. I fretted that
the chill time would mean they would go in the ground too late to produce. I
needn’t have worried. They grew like topsy and five weeks later they were
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my daily inspection of their progress I note that these may be only a portion
of the bulbs that were planted. There is actually another batch coming through
now, so these are the early season varieties, the miniatures and the
‘Harbingers of Spring’, with the Langley daffodil still to come. I have only
just planted the tulip bulbs but I note one has some growth poking up. Fingers
crossed… although I’m not very confident of them – they were looking a little
waxy by the time they were planted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-5730505398876694122015-07-30T10:27:00.002+08:002015-07-30T10:27:43.770+08:00Hello Polly!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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bird, gallivanting around in my backyard is my gardening neighbour’s escaped,
caught and then set free King Parrot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been living the semi-free life for around a year now I think and comes in
to be hand fed on a daily basis. He wolf whistles which pretty much sets him
apart from the rest of the birds in the neighbourhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am including my attempt at a bit of artistic photography in today’s post. This
is the fountain head in my fish pond. I spotted this view from the kitchen
window and thought maybe I could capture it. It’s not too bad for a point and
shoot camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-84915680370250608642015-07-16T07:00:00.000+08:002015-07-17T08:29:33.541+08:00GBB Day Number 1<div class="MsoNormal">
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and welcome to my garden blog if you’re new here. Please feel free to have a
look around. In Australia it’s winter and finally the weather has cooled down
(like <b>right down</b> to nearly freezing
in the morning) here in Perth. We still haven’t had much rain but we have two
desalination plants and are now pumping recycled water back into the aquifers
to boost supplies so we’re a little less reliant on rainfall nowadays. It doesn’t
help the native forests though and we lose a few more trees every year to dry
winters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time round I’ve got a few more photos of the last of the roses. First up there’s
this, the most perfect ‘<a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/guest-post-moonbeam.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Moonbeam</span></a>’ bloom ever! Being right next to the front
gate it’s something I see on a daily basis, so I didn’t miss its single day of
perfection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adore this rose. The pole I have supporting the stem has been developing a lean
over this last season and I have been slightly panicked that the whole thing’s going
to topple and crash to the ground in the next storm so I have pruned it hard
and I have a plan to build a support for it that will hopefully take the weight
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the cooler months, because I live so close to work, I need to take my car for a
regular drive to get rid of any condensation that’s collected under the oil cap.
One of my favourites is a circuit I do from work out through Guildford and the
Swan Valley. The vines pick up the late afternoon sunshine and the leaves glow.
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fragrance. When I went past last time they were in full flush, unfortunately
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the Perth hills at the end of last week. I had a couple more David Austin roses
I wanted to pick up – a St Cecilia (after seeing them <a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/open-gardens-in-adelaide-part-2.html"><span style="color: magenta;">in
an Open garden at the end of last year</span></a>) and William Morris. The William
Morris is my best guess at what the rose growing against the shed back in <a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/open-gardens-in-adelaide-part-1.html"><span style="color: magenta;">this
post</span></a> is, which I absolutely love. They look like they should be good
performers – they were covered in buds. The St Cecilia is very fragrant as well
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-15831712616289038182015-04-01T10:01:00.000+08:002015-04-07T14:37:04.260+08:00Pierre de Ronsard (Eden rose) weeping standard<div class="MsoNormal">
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in their carpark. This photo was taken around January or February I think, so blooms
aren’t all that prolific, but the shape of it had me pulling my wallet out and
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de Ronsard is one of those rose varieties that take a few years to mature into
a prolific bloomer. The maturity of it when I bought it meant that I only had
to wait a couple of years for its flowering season to extend through to autumn.
Up until then it didn’t flower past Australia Day (at the end of January).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sadder news, however, the tally of deaths at the end of this summer is 5. I bought
a couple of fuchsias (love them) last spring that didn’t make it; lost a couple
of natives (a grevillea and a dwarf tea tree) possibly from old age - I hear
some of them are short-lived; and my silver birch which is very sad. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of the first trees I planted, after 8 summers it has passed away… now I’ve got
to decide if I can do something with that lovely trunk or remove it and start
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-37864053932607460842015-02-23T06:42:00.000+08:002015-02-23T09:53:49.465+08:00Hedges<div class="MsoNormal">
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still summer here in Perth and still hot, although (surprise! surprise!), we’ve
had some decent rain recently and for a week or so it was very cloudy and warm
(well hot really). I was expecting powdery mildew to become the order of the
day, but no, following that everything has put on new growth like you wouldn’t
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still running through photos I collected in spring. This post actually has
photos that are several years old, but as the heading suggests these are photos
of hedges that I haven’t grown, just seen. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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love the formality of hedges although I personally only have one along the edge
of my driveway</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
a lilli-pilli called Tiny Trev. It’s looking a little relaxed at the moment. In
the past I have lost plants (and my first hedge) after pruning in hot weather
so I avoid it now and hold off till the weather cools down</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
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aren’t turning out well so I’ll leave it for this post.</span><br />
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photos are taken in the garden of a medical centre near where I work. It has a
very </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">formal aesthetic with a lot of hedges and ‘Iceberg’ roses everywhere.</span><br />
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love it and had ideas of basing my front yard design along the same lines but
my yard layout doesn’t really suit the straight line divisions required for a
formal look and I had to give it away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still dream of an all-white rose garden and I may yet plant an all-white rose
section somewhere as an area opens up due to the death of a plant. Some
Australian natives are fairly short-lived and I’ve had a couple of deaths this
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-58793729482735292892015-01-13T17:30:00.000+08:002015-01-13T17:30:01.074+08:00Meet my new roses <div class="MsoNormal">
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it is, the start of a new year and with it the start of some really hot weather
here in Perth and around the country. Temperatures have passed the 40°mark
(that’s close to 110°F – whew!) and leaves and any flowers are well scorched. Luckily,
at least in blogging terms, I still have some photos from spring to show you.
So without further ado… come and see my new roses for this season.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
first one is Lavender Pinocchio. Look at those beautiful smoky tones and
exposed stamens. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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flowers fade to pink with age. A floribunda rose, this rose has already been a
good performer, flowering fairly continuously since spring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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next one is a rose I bought which was mislabelled. I actually wanted to buy
another Belle Story so I was disappointed, however it’s been a strong grower
and put on a heavy flush of flowers in spring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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thinking it has to be an English rose. Could it be Lilian Austin?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is hybrid tea, Atomic Blonde. It has only put on this one flower this season.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is the second time I have planted a Jude the Obscure, this time in a much
milder position. It looks like a much stronger plant and has put on a decent
number of blooms.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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created a new garden bed especially to add the next two roses. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After reading </span><a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/guest-post-moonbeam.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: magenta;">my
neighbour’s guest post</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I had to have Moonbeam and it has proved to be quite
a prolific flowerer, with two good flushes so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And
I also bought Martine Guillot (a name I absolutely massacre every time I say
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This rose has been on my wish list since seeing it in an </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Australian House and Garden </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">magazine a
couple of years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It seems to be growing strongly but has only had one flush
of flowers.</span><br />
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from that, I also bought a <a href="http://twigsplussprigs.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/the-amazing-duchesse-de-brabant.html"><span style="color: magenta;">climbing
Duchesse de Brabant</span></a> and some other repeat favourites.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-56415941067480080022014-12-24T05:00:00.000+08:002014-12-24T05:00:02.950+08:00Merry Christmas!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-81217297476281742622014-12-19T19:10:00.000+08:002014-12-19T19:10:00.256+08:00This is Lamarque<div class="MsoNormal">
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a look at the beautiful Old Garden rose, Lamarque.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is a Noisette rose bred by Marechal in France in 1830. If you would like to
delve further into the story of Noisette roses have a look at </span><a href="http://www.rose.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/History-of-Roses-Noisettes.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: magenta; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial";">this article</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial";">. Go on –it’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial";">It’s a large climber that
can apparently grow to 6 metres. Mine is a weeping standard which I bought from
</span><a href="http://www.roworth.com.au/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: magenta; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roworths Rose Nursery</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (this is not a
sponsored post by the way). Luckily for me it doesn’t mind a prune. I give it a
light prune in early autumn and when the canes start attacking me as I walk
past, along with a harder prune in winter. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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much harder, almost back to the support ring, and I wasn’t that thrilled with
the result. It was still large by the end of autumn, but it took quite a while
to get to an attractive size and shape and the spring blooms weren’t as
prolific, probably because there was less plant for them to grow on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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always the case with Noisettes. My Gardening Neighbour has several and he has
pruned them with unfortunate results – a very slow recovery. Certainly my rose
book recommends <b>not</b> pruning Madame
Alfred Carriere, another of the Noisettes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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weeping standard for this spot based on this photo in the coffee table book, </span><a href="https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Rural+Australian+Gardens&tbm=shop"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: magenta; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial";">Rural Australian
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The book doesn’t say what rose appears in the photo but I later found an
earlier photo of the same property in another rose book I borrowed from the
library; apparently it is a rambler I had never heard of – Minnehaha.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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to the nursery I had this image in my mind, with either pink or white flowers.
On site the choices were either Iceberg or Lamarque and the ever helpful staff
recommended this one. It hasn’t let me down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transformed to provide vegetables, grapes and a great place to relax only a
relatively short time earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-28281767524470192562014-11-28T18:30:00.000+08:002014-11-28T18:30:02.727+08:00Open Gardens in Adelaide part 1<br />
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just come back from a holiday in my home town of Adelaide in South Australia.
While I was there we visited two gardens that were participating in the Open Gardens
Scheme, a scheme where private gardens are opened to the public for one or two
days on a weekend for a small charge and money raised goes to their favourite
charity and to keep the scheme going (when I was doing research into this I
discovered that Open Gardens Australia is calling it quits at the end of this
spring–autumn season so get out there now while you can). The information that
was on the website about these gardens has now been taken down so I can’t
confidently tell you more than that they were both in the Adelaide hills area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grapevines and horses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-35005889812963181892014-11-11T07:00:00.000+08:002014-11-11T07:00:00.038+08:00Self-seeders<br />
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I’m going to talk about the self-seeding plants I have in my garden, and since
it’s November the 11<sup>th</sup>, Remembrance Day, I’m going to start with the
poppies.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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have bought punnets of Flanders field poppies from time to time (usually
available in the shops from late autumn) and I now get poppies coming up
willy-nilly in the front yard. This year’s poppy has come up in my
newly-created garden bed but often they will just pop up where they can. </span></div>
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other punnet planted self-seeders are these coastal daisies or erigeron. The design
of this bed was actually prompted by a sense of nostalgia, since I had the
whole of my side garden area (not a huge area by the way) planted with it at my
previous home, with narrow meandering paths weaving their way through it. I like
the look – it’s always been my dream to have a meadow and this is the closest,
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(in spring), trees, lavender and roses thrown in there as well. So it’s a sort
of field I guess. The erigeron has a tendency to smother a lot of plants so it’s
difficult to have variety on the same height level because it just gets taken
over. I also prune it down in winter to keep the height down a bit. Anyway,
what started as two or three punnets has quickly spread to cover the area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-74089600540625711402014-10-28T19:00:00.000+08:002014-10-28T19:00:04.784+08:00Hello Roses!<br />
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moving my ‘Princess Alexandra of Kent’ rose. Well here it is in its new home
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-36224279361212947152014-10-17T18:55:00.000+08:002014-10-17T18:55:00.453+08:00Wink, wink, nudge, nudge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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roses are very free-flowering floribundas, Bold Seduction being the deeper
coloured, stiffer and thornier stemmed, more upright sport of Seduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this year with a display that somehow always makes me think of meringue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seduction doesn’t photograph as well as they could in the landscape and look
more washed out towards white than they actually are. And the truth is in the
warmer weather they could almost pass for a white rose anyway, but the buds
show the beautiful soft pink edges all year round. In the heat, Bold Seduction
will pale off to soft pink to be mistakeable for Seduction at its best. </span></div>
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my experience, these roses will thrive in any position in the garden. I’ve got
them along the eastern fence so they get all the afternoon sun plus the heat of
the fence itself and I’ve got one planted at the front which gets pretty much
only a couple of hours of morning sun around Christmas (more later as the sun
goes further north), and a bush in a position that falls somewhere between the
two extremes. All of them flower profusely and thrive in Perth conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899292686129929509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742332625388018987.post-28014117600620555512014-10-08T18:30:00.000+08:002014-10-08T18:30:00.097+08:00About Fruit Fly Exclusion bags<br />
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in Perth we have Mediterranean fruit fly. These little @*^%$s (excuse the
language) make the stone fruit growers life a disappointing one. I’ve had a few
years of battling with these critters so let me give you the benefit of the vast
wealth of knowledge I have gained (ahem).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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up, let me just say that if you think you’re going to protect your fruit by
hanging old soft drink bottles with a mix of vegemite and ammonia in your trees,
think again. I tried this the first year and lost all of my fruit. I still use
this system but only to kill as many as I can catch.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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second year I whipped myself up some fruit fly exclusion bags out of fine
netting. The first ones were made out of bridal veil (expensive), then I moved
onto mosquito netting (this was black and I like to be able to see if the fruit
is ripe), then a coarse netting (cheap but too stiff to manoeuvre) and now I’m
using cheap net curtain fabric (this works the best of the lot). You can
actually buy exclusion bags if you’re not able to make them. These work! But there
are some things you should know:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will need to double them because if the net touches the fruit the fruit fly
will be able to get through it. Don’t go thinking that a shortcut would be to
double the layer of netting on your bags (I tried that in years 3 and 4). The layers
need to be independent so that there is some air space between them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will need to put them on early, once the fruit has some decent size. Fruit flies
seem to particularly like apricots and, because they develop in size quickly,
apricots are the crop that sometimes gets away from me. Usually I spot fruit
fly hovering around the fruit and then panic. Not this year though, and I’m
looking forward to some good fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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critters like ants, ladybirds and cockroaches (ick!) will still be able to get
in and you’ll see them roaming about in there. I don’t quite get why this is
but there we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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use pegs to attach the bags to the tree. For smaller fruit like apricots and
plums I use a larger bag and enclose several within it, for peaches and
nectarines I bag single fruit. Because this takes time, I decide how much fruit
I’m likely to eat over the time that the fruit will be ripening (I calculate
this to a 2 week period although it’s probably longer) and I have enough bags
to cover this. This doesn’t leave any to hand out to friends, neighbours and workmates.
The whole time I’m bagging fruit I’m thinking of the story of <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/stories/fairytale/littleredhen/story/"><span style="color: magenta;">The Little Red Hen</span></a> </span>;-).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Once
the fruit is bagged, I strip the rest of the fruit from the tree. It’s a
heartbreaking task but not as heartbreaking and messy as getting rid of rotten
fruit fly infected fruit (I put them in a plastic bag and leave them in the sun
for a few days to kill the maggots, although I believe you can feed them to
chooks if you have them). By the way, other states of Australia have rules that
require reporting of fruit fly, so please check.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally,
I’ve succeeded in growing figs with only minimal fruit fly problems<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6742332625388018987" name="_GoBack"></a>, especially at the start of the season. Perhaps this is
because the fruit is hard and then softens quickly when ripe. Anyway, if they’ve
been on the tree for a while I’ll let them go and the birds will eat them, and I
always check for fruit fly before eating. I’ve also had mixed results with the
plums so I will still leave the unbagged fruit on the tree for these fruits.
Last year the unbagged fruit survived, but I have, in the past, lost the whole crop
as well, so I wouldn’t want to leave it <b>all</b>
unbagged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh,
and before I forget! The blood plums don’t colour as normal, although they still
ripen. Perhaps the bloom is being rubbed off them or something. Anyway it’s
quite a mystery and I need to experiment a little more with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy
Gardening!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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