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46	Wow, H. victoria in East Gippsland. Brenda, I must say I'm dead curious to see if your friend has been able to grow it with the orange in the leaves. The lack...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 1, 2001 11:12 am
47	Jo here.... I was visiting our Hakea victoria today growing in Ojai and they have patches of yellow & orange. Last year it was just yellow but definitely ...	Australian Native Pla... ausnat@...	Feb 2, 2001 1:58 am
48	Hello all, I bought a $3 bargain, Hakea Platysperma (just under a metre) yesterday from Kuranga Nursery, but I haven't been able to find out much about this...	Darren Vandenberg dfvanden@...	Feb 4, 2001 11:59 am
49	Aah, the Cricket Ball Hakea, Eliot & Jones has it growing from 1.5-3m high to 2-4m across. Wrigley & Fagg have it as 4m high and 3 across. Both books say it...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 4, 2001 8:27 pm
50	... Thanks for your help. I'm surprised it's called that because it has very long and lanky foliage. With all my pots, I water every day during summer, so are...	Darren Vandenberg dfvanden@...	Feb 5, 2001 12:40 am
51	I have been wondering more about pot culture as well. How do the touchier natives go in large pots and what do you do with a large pot when the plant is ...	Brenda.Galey@...	Feb 5, 2001 2:48 am
52	Brenda, We feel that pot cuture should be ok for many touchier natives. Perhaps you should treat your plants in pots as large bonsais. Tip prune regularly & ...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 5, 2001 6:33 am
53	Darren, A bit more info. H. platysperma is suitable for very sandy soils. When sowing seeds place the prickly surface down. Germination is said to take 16-30...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 5, 2001 6:33 am
54	... long and lanky foliage. -its the woody cricket ball shaped fruit that people like (the largest fruit in the genus) With all my pots, I water every day...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 5, 2001 9:42 am
55	... Cas, thanks for the info. Eaglemont is only a few minutes drive from my house, so I think I will call her. It's quite a hilly suburb, so I suppose the...	Darren Vandenberg dfvanden@...	Feb 5, 2001 11:39 am
56	Hi All, I just thought I'd mention a great little gadget I found at my nursery. It's a moisture meter for pots. It takes all the guess work out of whether your...	Brenda.Galey@...	Feb 5, 2001 10:30 pm
57	Thanks Roman, Jo & Brenda for the info about H. victoria. Roman, we have seen the species at Burrandong Aboretum. Not as colourful as plants in the wild. The...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 6, 2001 11:38 am
58	Darren, Our ideas are all theoretical because we do not grow plants in large pots but feel that with tip pruning and regular feeding you should not have to...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 7, 2001 12:41 pm
59	We have been growing Hakea nodosa for many years. This medium-spreading shrub has bright green rounded leaves. Autumn and winter are the main flowering periods...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 8, 2001 11:48 am
60	Just a note to say that the soils in California are much richer in nutrients than in Australia, in fact often so high in phosphorus that most proteaceous ...	Australian Native Pla... ausnat@...	Feb 8, 2001 8:02 pm
61	Hakea sericea is known as Needle Bush, which is an apt name for this tall prickly shrub. Found in coastal areas from southeast Queensland to southeast NSW. The...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 9, 2001 10:05 am
62	Darren, I checked in my Native Plants Of Melbourne book (an excellent paperback I found in Borders in the Jam Factory on Chapel St last time I was there ...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 9, 2001 8:53 pm
63	Hakea sericea may be naturalised in Melbourne. Apart from that, both sericea & nodosa will grow on clay. We have seen sericea growing in pure clay in an...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 10, 2001 6:05 am
64	Hakea teretifolia, as Cas mentioned recently, is known as the Dagger Hakea. An apt name for a very prickly shrub. The plant becomes covered with creamy white...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 16, 2001 11:39 am
65	Wrigley & Fagg write of H. teretifolia that it is one of the hardiest of the Hakeas and will tolerate nearly any condition, even poor drainage (which we can...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 16, 2001 7:30 pm
66	Hakea microcarpa is another species able to cope with moist situations. In fact at times it grows in very wet areas with water up to its ankles. Hakea...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 19, 2001 11:21 am
67	Hakea microcarpa is another species able to cope with moist situations. In fact at times it grows in very wet areas with water up to its ankles. Hakea...	Warren Sheather yallaroo@...	Feb 19, 2001 11:21 am
68	Dear all, Paul Kennedy is an enthusiastic Hakea grower from Strathmerton in Victoria who is growing about 140 species or so and wants to send/receive/trade...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 19, 2001 9:41 pm
69	Dear all, this is a list of Hakeas which may tolerate some alkalinity in soils (for all of us with gardens on ex-building sites (hence lime, clay etc.). This...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Feb 26, 2001 12:45 pm
70	Does anyone (Cas?) know if you are supposed to get any confirmation after sending your money to join a study group? It's been 4 weeks and I haven't got...	Darren Vandenberg dfvanden@...	Mar 5, 2001 10:18 am
71	Darren, you won't get anything written until the next newsletter, which come out twice a year. There is also a seedbank you can ask about (You can always ring...	casliber@...	Mar 5, 2001 10:21 am
72	Hello Hakea people. I was just wondering which Hakeas people liked to grow for the foliage rather than the flowers, apart from the obvious choice of H....	Margaret Moir olivehill@...	Mar 22, 2001 6:38 am
73	<<I grow H. saligna as a windbreak, and I think it's new growth is quite beautiful, rivalling the new shoots of Callistemon salignus. Do you think they will...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Mar 22, 2001 1:32 pm
74	Margaret, I remember you mentioned that alot of things had died in drought conditions in summer. I was talking to Hazel Blackney in Melbourne (where they've...	Cas Liber casliber@...	Mar 26, 2001 12:47 am
75	Those weeping type leaves sound great.....I have to say foliage is my thing these days, must be my advancing years! I haven't found any difference with water...	Margaret Moir olivehill@...	Mar 26, 2001 1:29 am

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