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Julia, we didn't go to the GC as planned as a brake sensor light appeared on the car dashboard so just went to the local A...i for these! Car booked in for tomorrow.

I started out with 1 bulb of this O. 'Garnet', and it immediately took over. During our 2 month dry spell, it gets no water and looks completely dead. Then the rain returns and it goes crazy overnight. There are also several other types of Oxalis in the cow fields, and they compete with the grasses. But they keep the bees happy.

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Thanks Hywel ... :o)

Delonix, as I have said before, I adore these plants and their blooms fascinate me!

Well done, no interference from Jessie then?!!

Julia, this is very attractive.

Bernie, methinks I shall stay here in the UK, even though it's so bitterly cold!

Few flowers are blue, this is lovely.

It is really pretty.

Karen, you have a lot of cheerful, colourful flowers, many more than here! It is bitterly cold today, five degrees but feels more like minus two ... :o((

I agree, water sparingly and then you could take cuttings towards the end of March. or plant out as Hywel suggests.

No, I really can't imagine moving a 40 ft anything! It would definitely need a crane and a whole team of people to complete a job like that.

We still find Gerberas at our garden centres but they are always singles and never the old-fashioned double varieties.

The old Niles nursery had one in the ground. I don't know if it is still there. White flowered.
That nursery i thought would have been turned into homes by now.

It really is beautiful! I’ve had one in a huge pot for years.
It didn’t bloom this year.

It was a real pain. It was only me and two other guys. I couldn’t do it now without breaking my back. 😂

Can you imagine moving a 40 ft (13 m ) tall Jubaea chilensis? 😂. I’ve seen them moved, before and you need a huge crane. I think it can weigh 50 tons.

That’s amazing it’s lived so long.

These used to be very popular in California, now I don’t see too many now.

Sorry to hear about your ills during the winter. It's horrid when you come down with something nasty and just can't shake it.

Fingers crossed Spring comes early for you.

It's not really a venom Klahanie.

They bit by grabbing your skin with their six legs and then bites a hole with their jaws.

After they bite you, and it's usually a pretty fierce bite, they pull their tail underneath themselves and squirt formic acid from their abdomen into the bite site just to more misery to the pain!

They will hang on chewing on your skin to mix in the acid!

You can see the bite hole afterwards and the area around it is usually red for a while.

Fancy a visit to north Queensland sometime soon! 🤣🤣🤣

Lots of nice colour in the middle of winter.

That was a shame, Andy! :(

I have a pot or two of Oxalis deppei 'Iron Cross' which I like a lot more for its leaves than its flowers. I have had no problems of it trying to take over. When I planted bulbs that had flowered during the springs of several years in my old church's gardens I did notice a few tiny plants of this Oxalis growing amongst them but they seem to struggle to stay alive as I have seen no evidence of them multiplying over the years since I accidentally planted them out with spring bulbs.

Interesting info and photo. Seems like they have a very strong "venom" (form your description).

I'm sorry to hear that, FF, but as I have never used an Apple computer nor phone nor tablet I have no idea what works on them or even how to use them! :(

Hope it works better for you, Rose! :)

Just today my wife got a new laptop & I've spent a lot of time helping her to configure it. I installed the 2 adblockers I mention here on her computer, in Firefox, & everything works perfectly - no trouble at all! :)

Karen, a Poinciana, a Jacaranda and an Acacia standing together would look fabulous if they were all flowering at the same time.

Klahanie, it's interesting to see what's regarded as a "weed" in various areas of the world. I heard a saying once that I rather like: Weeds are nature's graffiti!

What a fabulous tree, Andy! :)

Hywel is quite right, FF!

So much lovely colour. That would be heart-warming on grey cold days.

I love these trees. All of them I have seen in Mexico had a beautiful shape. I do not think they were considered a weed. Most of them were quite big. There are more Jacarandas then Delonix regia in that little village near Guadalajara . Both tees are beautiful when they bloom.
I do understang the "weed" problem though. We have several tees and plants here on the Island which are considered weeds here but not around other parts of the country.

There's nothing to do now, just keep it slightly moist until the spring/early summer, and then repot it into fresh compost, or plant it in a tub with other summer flowering plants.

Yes I'd seen them Shirley, they'd look nice in the old pond :)

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Julia, we had a few dry and windy days so the grass wasn't nearly as wet as a week earlier. I noticed today that the soil is drying out in the borders, mind you, rain possibly on Thursday.

Hywel, did you see the photo of the Summer bulbs I recently bought in a supermarket? I think a few of those may be planted in the old pond.

Yes, keep us posted with these flowers please.

Oooh…ouch ya. This is why I don’t travel much.

Those flowers are lovely. I like Jacaranda too. And also the lovely yellow Acacias. Can you imagine all three growing together? Would be parrot-like!

I agree with Hywel...I've just popped back to say Shirley my grass is soaking today...how were you able to cut yours? Was hoping to make a start...decided to add fresh ericaceous compost to acid plants especially the Acers.

Good work done there Shirley, it's all looking nice and neat now, and ready for the spring :)
The former pond makes a nice little planting area, you must show us what you plant there.
Pity about the Eleagnus. I saw your question but didn't know what you could do to it. Amelanchier sounds a good alternative - bare winter branches look architectural, and Amelanchier has pretty springtime flowers.

Thank you everyone..it is a Hebe you just can't walk by.

Thanks Hywel. The blobs will last a couple of days sadly as I always have a bit of a reaction to the bites. Ice pack tonight helped a great deal.

I hope the blobs will go down. We have ants here too, black ones and red ones. The red ones can bite.

Love the colour!

Wow, I've never had any experience moving such enormous plants. I can imagine though it would be hard work.

I've moved Parlour Palms before, but that's not much of a comparison!

These are very aggressive ants and their bite is quite painful. We learn to avoid them whenever possible, but there's just so many of them around, that it's impossible to avoid contact with them all the time.

I have to admit I do love Jacarandas! Unfortunately I've never had any luck growing them - one was the slowest grower on the face of the earth and we moved before it got a little higher than our 5-foot fence, and the other had to be cut down because we needed a car shed and it was in the wrong spot!

Yikes! That’s horrible! The ants here bite, also, but your ants sounds much worse than here. The ants here don’t cause red blobs. The ants here give more of a quick sting.

Beautiful! Of course, my favorite tree! I wish it was a weed here! There are many trees here, but everyone seems to love Jacaranda more! There’s millions in San Diego.

Yes they grow really tall here as well. With regular trimming back and cleaning out, they do look fabulous.