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Flowers in the garden right now

In Perth, WA of course!
All planted in April last year 😇 realised I’m missing some photos of my everlastings!

u/MooreGoreng — 17 hours ago

My lill pillies are dieing please help

My lilly pillys started dieing all of a sudden. I have 9 trees it started with one and seems to soread to the rest. The leaves has these orange burnt looking patches mostly, and the one it started with has its whole main truck ( top part) dead.

I have used all the pesticides in bunnings nothing seems to work. Please help!!!

u/Living_Physics4128 — 20 hours ago

Help ID new plant friends (Coastal survivors from Sth Gippsland)

We were at the Foster farmers' market on Saturday and I picked up a few natives including these two with the pale pink flowers (pics 1-3) and the smaller leafed one without flowers (pic 4).

I just realised these two don't have care tags and I've forgotten their names. I believe all the ones I selected were meant to be tolerant of coastal conditions.

Pics 4 and 5 were out in the bush a bit north-west of Yarram in the hills, and I'm just interested to know what they are.

I'll do some research but any IDs or pointers would be much appreciated!

(New to native gardening).

Australian orchids, like this Queen of Sheba, are famously difficult to pollinate because they need? ABC News.

I saw an ABC news item for National Science Week, Science quiz: How much do you know about our native flowers? Excellent! …except I couldn’t get past the first question. “Australian orchids, like this Queen of Sheba, are famously difficult to pollinate because they need? — A, a particular microclimate; B, a specific fungal partner; C, a certain soil type; D, all of the above.”

Where’s E, none of the above? None of these have anything to do with pollination.

abc.net.au
u/Recent-Mirror-6623 — 2 days ago

Wa coastal colour

Check out this beautiful Wattle intwined with Hardenbergia from the morning walk.

u/Pennode — 3 days ago

Grevilleas miqueliana starts it spring thing

*G. miqueliana* is a gorgeous high country grevillea that I had, lost, then searched for years before finding some advanced tubestock a couple years ago. [Definitely will be trying cuttings this year]

Lovely and bushy plant that keeps its low branches, and still gets a bit of height for screening. Here it is sitting in silty clay loam (30cm) with clay under that. Don't water it in summer now established, though always plentiful mulch, and I'm not low low rainfall Vic.

The spots of colour, aka flowers, are visible from the house 30m away, so when I see them dancing on windless days it is the spinebills or the new hollands. Plenty more on their way as the migratory honeyeaters return from their winter sojourn.

[Southern goldfields, Central Highlands, Vic]

u/Kerrit_Bareet — 3 days ago

Is there hope of life?

Any chance these eucalyptus trees are still alive?

We’re in Albury, NSW. These young eucalypts were looking healthy and growing really well, then within about two weeks they went from looking great to completely brown and dead-looking.

It’s winter here and we’ve had some decent rain as well as some pretty heavy frosts.

Could this sort of sudden dieback be caused by frost, too much water/wet soil, or something else? Is there any chance they’re still alive and might reshoot in spring, or do they look completely gone?

Any advice on how to check if the trunks/roots are still alive would be appreciated. Photos attached.

u/dingo_dollar — 4 days ago