G'day Hakea Growers and Admirers, I am new to growing Hakeas, or more correctly about to start growing them and, as you can tell by my Yahii ID, I live in the...
My Home Grown Aussie Natives G'day All, I just wanted to share this link with you all which I hope to make into a type of online diary of the progress of...
Geoff I doubt there are common guidelines. Hakeas are found over much of Australia, and have adapted to local conditions. The flashiest species come from WA,...
G'day all, A few people have written asking about the mini shadehouse in my photo album. I looked it up and is available as either a shade or hot house....
Geoff - hakeas are generally tough as nails. Try your local species outside on the nature strip. Hakea purpurea is a nice red one from queensland. Hakea lorea...
Hello to all the members of the Hakea group, my name is Jim Kitchin and I live at Sandford in Tasmania. I have quite a few Hakea growing in my garden which are...
Hello Jim, welcome to the group. You certainly have a fine variety of species growing there, good for you. Regards, Marg. ... From: <kbranksome@...> To:...
Here here Marg, Welcome to this and to the other groups I have run into in Jim. I am fairly new too and so far found them all a great bunch. I do hope you will...
Geoff, Thanks mate, yep one day I will get the pics done. I think my garden looks good but beauty is in the eyes of the beholder they say, what looks good to...
Hi fellow members. I have started a picture album using the name of Branksome which is my garden name, named after Branksome in Dorset UK, birth place of my ...
Marg, According to A Guide to Flowers & Plants of Tasmania, the Hakea nodosa is located on the north east where I obtained the seed, Flinders Island, Cape...
Have just uploaded three photos of Hakea lissocarpha which is flowering in my garden at the moment. Quite a charming small scrambling shrub which opens quite...
Hakea sericea is a native to eastern Australia but has become a prolific weed in South Africa. Below I have posted a range of scientific abstracts dealing with...
Ripper pink flowering form Duncan! First chance I've had to look at the pics, and that is the first pink flowering form I've seen. It is a local native here,...
Marg, Excuse my ignorance, what is the macropod you keep referring to, sounds like something out of Dr Who; I have heard of two headed Tasmanians but not ...
Hi Margaret and all, my pink flowering plant came of course from the late Bill Cane, for whom the normal flower colour was never good enough! If it was white...
Ah, I should have guessed! Like Mr Newbey, we won't see their like again. I should like to have met them. Duncan, did you have a website about Bill? Can I...
Hmmm, on that note the Wobblies up my way enjoy eating much treasured Natives. I hope they spread as much Native seed as they spread weed seed to my front...
Never found anything that works for more than 5 minutes. Have to plant things they don't gobble. And there isn't much of that. Their latest trick is...
Well Esme and groups members, It looks like we need the assistance of the more knowledgable members of the group to solve our dilema. "Is general captive bird...
G'day Groups' Members, I have two more questions that I'd very much like answered. Of course it's wonderful that gavinone has now been discovered but for now...
Disease threat to home gardens By Jamie Walker July 19, 2004 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10177982%255E26462,00.html QUEENSLAND'S citrus...
Hi I am a new member to this group and have read quite a bit of the messages with interest,I live in the central wheatbelt of W.A. and am very fiortunate to...