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
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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
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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
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<<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
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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
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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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We had a recent trip visiting our children who live on the Central Coast and Southern Highlands of NSW (also reported in the Grevillea discussion group). On...
Warren Sheather
yallaroo@...
Mar 26, 2001 3:39 am
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Dear all, was talking to Hazel Blackney in Melbourne yesterday who is a mine of information haivng travelled all over Australia and encountered all sorts of ...
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Mar 26, 2001 5:36 am
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Cas, I have a dozen or so H. laurina surviving from 40 planted.....the rest have blown away in winter storms. Most of them are strongly weeping in form. I've...
Margaret Moir
olivehill@...
Mar 26, 2001 11:23 am
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Dear all, as all email viruses are encountered as attachments, the easiest way to make the discussion groups I moderate safe is by not allowing files with ...
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Mar 28, 2001 1:07 pm
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Dear all: I am living in the USA and would like to know a bit more about Australia. I love to grow Australian plants and I received the lovely December 2000...
rhr
rudolf_rahn@...
Apr 9, 2001 4:10 pm
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Rudi, the WA wheatbelt extends eastwards and south from Perth for a few hundred km. It has a mediterranean climate (wet winter, dry summer (5-600mm annual...
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Apr 10, 2001 12:37 am
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Rudi, Cas is correct on most points about Hakea Heaven [the WA hinterlands] except that most if not all hinterland soils are medium to heavy loams and clays,...
Margaret Moir
olivehill@...
Apr 10, 2001 1:48 am
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Howdy everyone... I was recently at the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens in Melbourne where I came across lots of a hakea-like plants 2-3 metres tall whose main...
Darren Vandenberg
dfvanden@...
Apr 10, 2001 2:32 am
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Darren, this gets complicated as its in Cranbourne (and hence may not be an indigenous species). Have you looked in a proper key formatted book/identification...
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:48 pm
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Darren, I can't be much help as I don't have any key guides to ES species, but H. nodosa is described in Wrigley and Fagg as having prominent fruits, although...
Margaret Moir
olivehill@...
Apr 11, 2001 12:48 am
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... Good point - maybe it isn't a hakea after all. I don't have many good reference books, but I do have a picture of a H.Nodosa seed pod, and it's definitely...
Darren Vandenberg
dfvanden@...
Apr 11, 2001 12:55 pm
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Your seed pod & seed description sounds like a Casuarina I will be interested to hear what the ID is in due course Heather...
heatherk@...
Apr 11, 2001 1:19 pm
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... actually, yeah, that could be it you know........
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Apr 11, 2001 1:21 pm
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That was my first thought as I'm a real sheoak fan but I thought, hey, this fella knows the difference between a Hakea and a sheoak! Sorry, couldn't resist....
Margaret Moir
olivehill@...
Apr 11, 2001 11:53 pm
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... Shame on me, but you are dead right. (Hey, I'm new to plant identification!). I went to the Casuarina section of my book, and it's all so obvious now. The...
Darren Vandenberg
dfvanden@...
Apr 12, 2001 1:46 am
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Goodonya Darren for starting on the long slippery slope to learning. Those sheoak cones are absolutely beautiful little works of nature aren't they? Margaret. ...
Margaret Moir
olivehill@...
Apr 12, 2001 5:58 am
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Hi All, Does anybody have any info on Hakea Baxteri? I got a bargain at Kuranga nursery this weekend! Bren...
Brenda.Galey@...
Apr 19, 2001 1:48 am
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Hi all, How do you treat hakeas that have been grafted. Do you water them as the rootstock would be treated? Bren...
Brenda.Galey@...
Apr 19, 2001 2:14 am
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... I think so. I remember this being told to me by a grafter once....
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Apr 19, 2001 11:11 am
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... The old Eliot & Jones describes it as another species which may be split into two as there is a lignotuberous, small form which comes from north of Perth,...
Cas Liber
casliber@...
Apr 19, 2001 11:11 am
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Lucky you Bren, I have been looking for seed for that Hakea for years. Jo ... From: sentto-2386621-91-987644895-ausnat=west.net@returns.onelist.com ...
Australian Native Pla...
ausnat@...
Apr 19, 2001 3:43 pm
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Hi Jo, if mine puts on seed it's yours!...
Brenda.Galey@...
Apr 19, 2001 10:47 pm
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Wonderful, I'll look forward to it. Thanks Jo ... From: sentto-2386621-96-987720469-ausnat=west.net@returns.onelist.com ...
Australian Native Pla...
ausnat@...
Apr 20, 2001 12:38 am
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... Everytime I go to that place, I spend an hour looking around, trying to find good $3.25 "specials with the red tags". Occasionally you get a cheap hakea or...
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