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RE: Pretty Flowers... YES


I guess it just all goes to show what a diverse lot of talents you need
to be a gardener
or else gardeners are just naturally diverse and talented  :-)

But...  pretty flowers...

Out of curiosity is anyone out there growing Banksia coccinea and
getting flowers?
I have seen plants in Perth up to 2 meters high and no flowers,
apparently they refuse to flower
when brought to far north of their native range, which is along the
south coast of Western Australia (Albany to Esperance.. ish)

They have just brilliant SCARLET styles exserted from fuzzy grey flowers
prominantly placed (presented) on the ends of vertical branches, just
superb!

There are plenty of possibilities for people in the eastern states of
Australia to get flowers as Melbourne and all of Tassie are below the
native range (in terms of latitude) anyone there growing it?

If you live in the northen hemisphere above 34 to 35 ° Latitude try and
get some seed
one flower and you'll be hooked.


Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	Doug McClure
> Reply To: 	dkm@cts.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, 7 January 1998 7:44 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Pretty Flowers ? (Was Re: Dose response)
> 
> At 01:10 PM 1/7/98 +0800, Randall, Rod wrote:
> .
> >
> >In the early days of market gardens in Western Australia when
> >organophosphate and organochloride pesticides were widely used the
> >majority of market gardeners were from southern or eastern european
> >origin and consequently had little usable english  (especially in
> >reading) 
> >As they couldn't read the labels they just added insecticide untill
> they
> >had a VISIBLE effect.
> >What was this visible effect?  Nosebleeds, nausea etc....  if they
> >didn't come home from the garden with this then they considered they
> >hadn't done a good enough job!
> >
> 
> Boy, the things I've been learning lately: The chemistry of mummies
> and
> pharmocological plants, electrical wiring and safety and building
> codes,
> organophosphate toxicology and LD50, plant terminology and taxonomy
> and
> South African slang/slurs, and seed winnowing.
> 
> Does anyone want to discuss pretty flowers? 
> 
> The seed catalogs are in the mail and Spring is not so far away (at
> least
> for us Northern Hemispherians)! What does everyone recommend for our
> seed
> orders? (Of course, El Nino will probably hit just when we plan to
> plant
> and force us to stay indoors!)
> 
> DKM
>
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