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Mid-summer downunder: Anigozanthos 'Bush Ranger' - dwarf Kangaroo Paw in flower

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By Bernieh


Mid-summer downunder:  Anigozanthos 'Bush Ranger' - dwarf Kangaroo Paw in flower (Anigozanthos 'Bush Ranger' - hybrid)

My dwarf kangaroo paw is showing its flowers for the first time. This little fellow will only grow to around 40 cms tall.



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Its lovely Bernieh

4 Jan, 2010

 

i had one of these but lost it last year..some u win.......the flowers are so different,....at least i can enjoy yours....;-))

4 Jan, 2010

 

Shame you lost yours Sandra ... this one is tiny at the moment and the poor little flowers get lost amongst the other plants.

4 Jan, 2010

 

i always push the bounderys....i take the losses hard ..but love it when they get through our winters...

4 Jan, 2010

 

The lack of rain, the heat, the strength of the sun and the humidity over here limits the pushing of the boundaries somewhat ... I'm so pleased I managed to get a hellebore to grow last year ... and it's still going strong so now I'm waiting to see if I can keep it going long enough to bloom.

4 Jan, 2010

 

Beauiful I love these

4 Jan, 2010

 

isnt it funny how different our gardens are...i got hellebores growing all over the garden....

4 Jan, 2010

 

Hellebores up here are an unknown ... I really don't know anyone who grows them ... so when I was sent one by a friend of a friend, I went to the best local nursery for advice (nursery's been here for over 30 years now) and they had never stocked it!! I was also sent a fuchsia ... lasted only four days in the summer heat and humidity ... can't get them in the nursery either.

4 Jan, 2010

 

fuchsias would hate the humidity.....maybe youd have to have a shade house and air conditioning...lol...
why do we always want what we cant have?...

4 Jan, 2010

 

Lol ... had a bit of a chuckle over your comment because I did put the fuchsia in my greenhouse (coolhouse) next to the door from the house where the air-conditiong blows out and in a spot where it got a lovely cool gentle updraught from under the house!!! .... didn't work. Usually I don't try and grow what I know simply won't survive but I felt obliged to try to grow this one because it was a gift.

4 Jan, 2010

 

i have plenty of plants that i didnt choose too......i give them all a go. some u win......

5 Jan, 2010

 

This one is tiny Marguerite and the colour is more of an orangey red ... as well as that both 'paws' are in flower at the moment.

8 Jan, 2010



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