Just after Christmas 2018, I took a quick peek in the Bunnings near Cottesloe Beach. They had some very pretty Christmas trees at half price. Norfolk Pines to be precise. I bought one and the store clerk warned me to leave it in the pot. Repot into a larger one every couple of years but on no account to ever put it in the ground. I says - no worries. Cottesloe Beach is full of Norfolk pines and no one in their right mind would ever want one of them unleashed in their garden
The critter is still doing nicely in its pot. So I figures that a pot is the perfect spot for the jarrah sapling too. I could also do some guerilla gardening but cannot really think of any suitable place to put such a creature
I have so many native weeds in the Lair and not a single one of the newbies is a eucalyptus. There is a Silver Princess already in the garden but I would never add new ones. They are just far too flammable, grow too fast and drop their branches if you so much as sneeze and do not play nice with other weeds Their leaves are waxy and take way too long to compost if ever and they are totally useless as shade trees. They really are the irredeemable rats of the Oz tree scene best left in the wild or to the silly sentimental sorts with romantic notions of lovely gum trees
Banksias and grevilleas on the other hand are amazing bird magnets but without all the gum tree bad habits. It is just annoying that the only seeds of theirs that ever germinate are the ones that land in the gutters.
Wild and wicked weeds
The critter is still doing nicely in its pot. So I figures that a pot is the perfect spot for the jarrah sapling too. I could also do some guerilla gardening but cannot really think of any suitable place to put such a creature
I have so many native weeds in the Lair and not a single one of the newbies is a eucalyptus. There is a Silver Princess already in the garden but I would never add new ones. They are just far too flammable, grow too fast and drop their branches if you so much as sneeze and do not play nice with other weeds
Their leaves are waxy and take way too long to compost if ever and they are totally useless as shade trees. They really are the irredeemable rats of the Oz tree scene best left in the wild or to the silly sentimental sorts with romantic notions of lovely gum trees
Banksias and grevilleas on the other hand are amazing bird magnets but without all the gum tree bad habits.
It is just annoying that the only seeds of theirs that ever germinate are the ones that land in the gutters.