Roll up, roll up! Get ’em while they’re hot! The group of plants commonly known as Lilly-pillies are popular and well-known for both landscaping and revegetation. Without bombarding you with the back-story of taxonomic jousting and re-arranging, ‘Lilly-pilly’ generally encompasses native trees of the genus Acmena and Syzygium. There have been several successful varieties, cultivars […]
The Trials Of Manipulating Nature
Ah, the trials of manipulating nature! We are a stubborn species, us humans. There seems no end of things to complain about in the very controlled, manipulated setting of a commercial tubestock nursery. Wind back the clock a month or so, and you would have found me complaining about the extended hot and dry weather […]
Seed Propagation – And So Ends the Journey of the Seed
At long last! After three drawn-out months of scrambling through undergrowth and dangling from tree-tops (seed collection), of gastrointestinal anguish and carpal-tunnel syndrome (seed processing), and of complete and utter phonetic confusion (having to learn Latin just to understand the identification books), the moment of glory has arrived – chucking that damn seed at a […]
