Dear Peter and all others of our group, As it is I've got some tiny little seedlings of the described B. saxicola from Mt William in my 'baby-room' so Peters'...
.....how long it might take for the above mentioned B. saxicola to flower?........ In Alex's book there are a few overestimates due to lack of cultivation ...
**Hello There, I am new to this list. I have one banksia growing in my yard and know nothing about it, hence, joining this group. What I am interested to...
Hi Huntingpenny I believe that some species of Banksia flowers were soaked in water to produce a sugary drink. Banksia marginata was the main one around ...
Hello group walking past my grafted banksia speciosa today and noticed that one of the main growth tips on top has a different look about it. hopefully a...
Hi Mark, I do hope it's a bud indeed! You've been patient enough I'd say. Five years old already, does this mean that I'll have to wait another 4 years to have...
Well done, Mark. They are great looking flowers. What's it grafted onto - B. integrifolia? How are the Sydney group members going this summer with their WA...
Hi everybody, The smallest of my two B. blechnifolias is definitely producing a bud!! It's a beautiful deep velvety red. Both plants were sown 14 th January...
have recently aquired seedlings of a dwarf form of B.prionotes apparently growing to only about 70cm has anyone else had any experience with such a plant....
giday Phil and group Yes it is definatly a flower bud , had a look today and it is just sticking its head up above the dormant new growth. It is grafted on to...
RE: [banksias] could this be a bud!!!!!!Phil asked; How are the Sydney group members going this summer with their WA banksias?............ I live in the...
RE: [banksias] could this be a bud!!!!!!Phil - I have a Banksia praemorsa and B aculeata in the ground in elevated beds and probably not as much sun as they'd...
I have not of this in cultivation before. I'd be keen to know if they behave themselves and stay below 70cm (as they are seed). Who was selling them? (may be...
Thanks Norbert. That's a great result to get menziesii and victoriae to flower stage. Regards Phil ... From: Norbert Schaeper [mailto:nkzm@...] Sent:...
RE: [banksias] could this be a bud!!!!!!Well, I think you may be doing better than I, here in the heartlands! I've lost a small B. grandis that I kept going...
Thanks Cas. There must be a good market for grafted WA banksias, However, they aren't easy to find. I can't recall ever seeing one in a nursery. I am going to...
Just dashing on - then off between Thunder Storms! I might have missed this from earlier times - but does anybody know if any of the Banksias are sensitive...
Peter - many people (including the Banksia Farm and CALM in WA) are using it without killing plants. There is a study to suggest it may have a retarding...
... it came to me via a round about way, and i will also be interested to know if it behaves and stays low, i have been told that they come from a population...
hi, i have some seedlings of B.spinulosa var.neoanglica(seeds from a garden somewhere in Canberra)coming along.Question is,is anyone else growing this species...
hi my name is brian i live in bargo nsw im in a wheel chair . and i wonted to ask you if you sell your seeds and the price please ... Yahoo! Greetings Send...
Brian-i am in Canada and my seeds came via Australia.Sorry i can't help-Jason brian N <oldshep73@...> wrote:hi my name is brian i live in bargo nsw im...
...but Nindethana seed service can, at $1 a packet plus postage... http://members.iinet.net.au/~nindseed/ ... Brian-i am in Canada and my seeds came via ... ...
Dear all, those of you that have been around a while will have been bored witless by my constant whining about the depredations of roos. :) At last one of my...
Hi Jason, This species naturally occurs in one of the coldest parts of Australia, in the New England Tablelands of NSW. This area is quite high by Australian ...
That's fantastic, Marg. I have a B. grandis that's around 6-7 years old, but it's never looked like flowering. How old is yours? And how old is your B....
Thanks Phil. The grandis is a 3 year old, had buds last year but the you-know-whats ate them. The occidentalis [es] are 4 and 9 years old. They started...
thanks Phil, That info confirms to me that,this species has a chance in my climate. Although borderline(we just had low temps of -12 to-15c,rare but something...
I am not sure of it's complete distribution, Jason, but I know it occurs in the Cathedral Rock National Park, near a tiny village called Ebor. Ebor is located...
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