any native australian tree addicts, here? , page-38

Out&In

thanks for your tips & encouragements. I need all the help I can get

I actually just discovered I have a hybrid honey gem after a mystery grevillea given to me produced its first flower. this hybrid honey gem has more golden leaves than the normal honey gem but looks much less bushy

Your post about honey gem was timely as I just planted a honey gem, last week, together with a Caloundra gem & a grafted Ivory Whip. My plan is for these 3 grevillea to grow into each other

You prompted me to look at my Ivory Curl, this morning. It is now around 5 & 1/2 feet tall (pictured below). I just noticed some small light green moths all over it (pictured) and ants crawling up it. A phone call diagnosed it has aphids, promoting the ant activity, so I just ant powdered the base & spayed white oil, which I purchased yesterday.

A horticulturalist advised me on Sunday one of my Little Evodia has aphids plus some of my Resilience lilly pillies so it was to the hardware store yesterday to buy the remedies. These are the chores, I have learned.

I have five potted fig trees & three have some small bugs in them which make the leaves curl up & I was advised to pick them off & burn them. Hard work!

It is very pleasing to watch some of these plants take off with the coming of spring. I have two tuckeroo, which have doubled in size in only three weeks &, similarly, the banksia (pictured)

Thanks again, for posting

Regards