How Could I Resist?

In the nursery, right beside the roses, were these beautiful kangaroo paws. Of course, they just had to jump into the trolley with the roses didn't they. A little differnt in colour than other kangaroo paws that I have seen, and hopefully different that the other two here.

My Baby Grows

Back in November I showed my new babies that I aquired. It is about six weeks since I first aquired them and they are all growing nicely. This is one of the Kangaroo paws, and if you look closely, you can see all the new growth at the base, and also how tall the plant itself is getting. At the moment they are still in pots on my back blacony where it has got extremely hot over the last few days. The heat does not seem to affect them at all, which means they may live in pots on the balcony for some time to come.

Kangaroo Paw

My babies are doing well & have not looked back from being removed from their black tubes & planted in something larger & more nourishing. They have been rained on a few times over the last few days, so hopefully this will help them to establish.

The above pics are of the kangaroo paws that are planted on the nature stip just before the bridge at Tuncurrry. They look stunning, & I fugure if they grow well on a council nature strip, they should go well in my garden as well. After another spell in my own garden, trying to clean out all the encroaching grass, I had a brain wave that I could plant kangaroo paws all the way down my side path. Mmmmm............ something to think about. The local nursery had heaps of them the other day when I went for a visit.

New Babies

The storms did evenuate yesterday, one at lunch time & a second late afternoon. Overall a nice little drop of rain for my wall pots that I had left out. Also what these new babies required. I acquired these from a wedding that our family attended just recently. Instead of the traditional almond bomboniere, the bridal couple provided tubed Australian Native Plants, wrapped in florist paper of a colour that matched the bridal party. Very nice! So I now have two kangaroo paws, one NSW waratah, and one Angophora hispida. I have been doing some reading about these plants, where to plant, how to plant, how often to water, etc etc, so for the moment I have just transferred them into lager pots containg a mix specially for Australian Natives. At least that will give me some time to think about where I will eventually plant them .