#Agonis flexuosa

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Dark Plants 

Dark plants are not very common and create visual drama due to their unexpected presence in a world that is dominated by different shades of green. Carefully placed plants with dark foliage or flowers can create a very dramatic look due to the contrast with the more common colors in a garden. 

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Jean Harlow: Do you have a garden? If so, what kind of plants do you have?

Humphrey Bogart: Do you travel a lot? Where have you been?

Myrna Loy: Do you like going to parties?

Spencer Tracy: What time do you wake up?

Jean: My garden is shared, and predates me (no, not that way.) The largest trees are over 40 years old; an Agonis Flexuosa and Pōhutukawa dominate the north and south sides of the house, respectively, both are in excess of 15 meters tall. In the backyard, an equally freakishly large variegated Pittosporum continues to challenge them for supremacy. A flowering eucalyptus grows on our nature strip, and together with the Agonis, and a teetering Virgilia, make seasonal threats against our overhead powerline. Closer to the ground, I have made attempts to introduce more Australian plants despite the reputation of our local soil being complete trash (spoiler: it is, our suburban block was quite literally built on a historic landfill.) The survivors, to date, include Callistemon, several varieties of Correa and Leptospermum (honorable mention to the coastal teatree* to which I have a not insignificant emotional attachment that will no doubt end in bitter disappointment), Kangaroo Paw (they’re alive but screaming for help), Banksia (alive but refusing to thrive), Eucalyptus ‘Baby Blue’ (he’s adopted), Thryptomene, Hardenbergia, and Acacia. Plants that have been here for longer than I’ve been alive include Fuschias, Pelargoniums, and an ocean self-seeding Cinerarias. My father planted a Diosma in the early 90’s that he has dotingly hedged ever since, it’s now as tall as I am, but I remember jumping over it with my sister when it, and we, were much, much smaller. Back then, we also had an enormous cherry plum tree growing on our eastern boundary – shading our driveway, and the neighbours’. Summer would arrive, the fruit would fall, and with every passing car a chorus of popping plums would foreshadow the looming familial task of scraping half-fermented plum slurry off the concrete. On the upside, our local blackbirds were very happy, and so were the Hydrangeas growing in the shade of the plum tree. And because you didn’t ask for an essay, I’ll make a list of the rest: Roses (17 at last count); Buddleja; Elderflower, Convulvulus ‘Silver Bush’; Salvia; Borage; Violets; Statice, Jasmine; Rosemary; Sunflowers; Gladioli; Petunia; Viola; Jade, Zygo Cactus, Catmint, Seaside Daisy, a dream of red Poppies (waiting to discover if the seeds are still viable), Grape Hyacinth, Foxglove, Snowdrops, and Bluebells (despite my best efforts at wholesale murder.) Humphrey: Not a lot. Internationally, I’ve been to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England - first in 2005 (there was a brief weekend in Paris, as well), and then again in 2015. In 2010 I visited New Mexico. It was my first time traveling alone, abroad, to meet and stay with people I’d met on the internet. Accordingly, I have a vivid recollection of my sister giving me instruction on how to brutally incapacitate someone as I was packing to leave for the city to catch my plane. While my friend will tell you she still has the bruise, I can at least attest that she wasn’t trying to take me to a second location when I gave it to her… affectionately – but you know this story already. Locally, I’ve been to South Australia, New South Wales, and the Northern Territory… but in the grand scheme, I’ve seen very little of Australia. Living where I do, in a little damp corner of Victoria, the rest of the country intimidates me like the promise of third-degree burns. Myrna: Categorically get away from me if people are coming that I don’t know. I can enjoy myself, or I can make small talk with strangers… I can’t do both. Smaller scale, close friends/family is fine… but anything too peopled and I’m liable to be person-not-appearing-at-this-soiree. Spencer: Any random-ass time between 1 and 4am, and ostensibly for no reason.

*the coastal tea tree's final form. Mine is still only 8 inches tall.

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What to Plant for Poorly Drained Soils

Wet Weather Gardening

By Kath Gadd and Hannah Preston

After yet more rain on the east coast many plants in many gardens are suffering water-logging. Even in reasonably well drained soils the inundation has been too much for some plants. Physically, the force of rain, streams and puddles of water have caused their own damage and with the increased humidity comes increased pathogen risk, it really hasn’t put many gardeners in the best mood, myself included!

Callistemon ‘In June’

The biggest issue with waterlogging is often the deprivation of oxygen from the soil. If the soil can’t breathe then anaerobic bacteria take over and start producing the yucky smells we associate with long-wet locations. Most plant roots actually need oxygen to survive as well as air space to continue growing, so when soils sit wet for too long they literally start to suffocate.

Leptospermum ‘Starry Night’

From aboveground there’s not always much we can do to immediately alleviate water-logging, but noticing and designing your garden based on how water travels is a good first step. You can also add clay breaker or organic materials like mulches to help improve the structure of the soil and its ability to drain and hold air pockets.

Melalueca viridiflora ‘Burgundy Weeper’

Be mindful that after rain soils are vulnerable to compaction, and if compacted their ability to aerate again will be compromised. Try not walk excessively on or run heavy objects over still wet areas – unless of course you’ve turning the local hillside into a mudslide for the kids 😛 

Melaleuca armillaris ‘Pink’

Create some space around the base of your plants, especially young ones. After heavy rain debris and other materials sometimes accumulate around the stems of plants, which leads to increased humidity and a greater chance of pathogens taking hold. Plants can become completely covered in mulch after the rain so make sure you clear the base to allow for airflow.

Leptospermum ‘Ballerina’

Some native plants are more tolerant than others when it comes to having wet feet, sometimes this is called being hardy to ‘temporary inundation’, which just means their root system will tolerate sitting in water for a short period of time without harming the plant.

Melastoma affine

I have a heavy clay soil so am no stranger to trying to find native plants which will survive in poorly drained soil and have been trialling and testing some of the pictured natives species. As a general rule of thumb I have listed some species and genus below which don’t mind having wet feet, some of them even thrive.

Baloskion tetraphyllum

Reeds, rushes and sedges are great in boggy damp areas, they will soak up excess moisture in difficult positions and can make great borders and features.

Poa ‘Suggan Buggan’

Banksia robur or the Swamp Banks ifs a wonderful large shrub or small tree which can handle very poorly drained soils and also periods of drought.

Banksia robur

The WA peppermint will also cope with temporary inundation to its root system, this species can be found as a low shrub, large shrub and small to medium tree, so is very useful in clay soils, however it dislikes humidity so beware when growing it north of Sydney.

Agonis ‘Burgundy’

Agonis flexuosa

If you are looking for large Eucalyptus species which can handle a heavier soil and lots of rain, look no further than our beautiful Ironbarks!

Eucalyptus paniculata

Smaller hedging plants will be species which naturally grow in a wetter environment like the sub tropical rainforest, this encompasses plants like Lilly Pillys, Myrtles and Baeckea.

Syzygium wilsonii

Other moisture loving small trees which don’t mind a bit of extra rain but cant sit for very long with wet feet are Grevillea baileyana, Buckinghamia celsissima, Tristaniopsis laurina and Xanthostemon chrysanthus.

Grevillea baileyana

Please see the list below and help me add to it!

Leptospermum (not all species)

Melaleuca (not all species)

Callistemons (not all species)

Casaurina species and cultivars

Banksia robur

Sedges – Carex apressa, Ficinia nodosa, Gahnia species

Eucalyptus ampifolia, sideroxylon, paniculata

Acmena and Syzygium species

Baeckea virgata and linifolia

Backhousia anisata, citriodora, myrtifolia

Calothamnus quadrifidus

Callicoma serratifolia

Randia fitzlanni

Lomatia myricoides

Kunzea (not all species)

Melastoma affine

Native Grasses – Themeda triandra, Dianella caeurulea, Poa labillardieri, Pycnosorus globosus

Viminaria juncea

Tristaniopsis laurina

Agonis flexuosa

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Agonis Burgundy is a small attractive tree with a beautiful weeping habit which bears white clusters of long lasting flowers.

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#1742 -  Pseudocheirus occidentalis - Western Ringtail Possum

Photo from Wiki, and the paper by Kaori Yokochi, Roberta Bencini - Yokochi K, Bencini R (2015) A remarkably quick habituation and high use of a rope bridge by an endangered marsupial, the western ringtail possum. 

One of the most special finds during the trip down to Yallingup - in fact, one was in the backyard. They’re also, by quite a long way, the rarest animal I’ve ever covered in the blog - they’re critically endangered. 

The ngwayir is a stocky cat-sized marsupial with a long prehensile tail with a whitish tip. They’re mostly nocturnal, foraging through the upper canopy of trees, feeding on young leaves, flowers and fruit. As with other ringtail species, the tough fibrous leaves need to be digested twice to extract sufficient nutrition, and they don’t regurgitate it either - they’re coprophagous.

Especially favoured are the flowers and buds of  the peppermint tree Agonis flexuosa. That species is a very common plant on the coastal plains of the SW - or it used to be. Since huge areas of the SW coastal plains have been clearfelled for farming, or overrun by expanding towns, and climate change is already affecting flowering times and nutritiousness of the buds and flowers, and foxes and cats and cars are waiting to kill any possum that comes down to the ground to get to the next tree, the species has been reduced to scattered populations in a lot of trouble. Some of those populations are actually within the urbanised areas of Busselton and Albany, and rope bridges connecting trees and crossing roads have been built to try and help them. Doesn’t stop them being killed by cars though - I also saw one dead :(

They usually breed in winter, with the single joey emerging from the pouch after about three months. 

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Peppermint tree

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November 26 Albany

We are camped at Emu Point in a grove of Peppermint trees (Agonis flexuosa) and are being showered with their tiny fragrant white petals. The tree is native to the south west of WA and the Noongar peoples call it by a number of names - Wanil, Wonnow, Wonong or Wannang. Whatever the name it’s lovely and the leaves fragrant. We’re just 5 km from the city centre. The road travels through bush land and past a large lake. Quite a bush setting. I just love these signs and we’ve seen quokka warning signs too.

I am so impressed with Albany. It sprawls out around a beautiful harbour, the Princess Royal harbour which lets out in to King George’s Sound. The area is punctuated with, and the town built around, huge rock monoliths and rocky sheets which spill down to the waters edge. Magnificent. The photo on the top left is of Dog Rock for obvious reasons.

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Agonis flexuosa ‘Lemon and Lime’

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Revisiting a Planter Project from last year. In this patio planter we have the yellow-flowered Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus), on the border of a mass of Coastal Rosemary (Westringia fruticosa) 'Morning Light' and After Dark Peppermint tree in the background (Agonis flexuosa 'Jervis Bay Afterdark'). · · · #gardendesign #patio #paisajismo #droughttolerant #garden #patiodecor #landscape #succulents #gardendesigner #landscapedesign #patiodesign #jardin #gardendesigns #patiolshop #jardines #gardening #patiolife #plantas #gardendesignmag #patios #gardendesigners #patioseason #paisaje #landscaping #patiogarden #gardendesignsideas #patioriginal #gardeninspiration #landscapedesigner #gardendesignideas — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3gSl9sJ

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Landscapes not only serve the purpose of accessibility and feet; the expanse of the shrub is around 6 feet. Buckeye - If you are looking for a low on maintenance shrub which adds great moist and wet soils for proper growth and development. Container Gardens - For the Smallest Backyards For some of you, any of the enough time to absorb moisture and the rate of evaporation is lowered. This shrub gets shiny pendulous clusters of black berries, and has lustrous green lines of a split rail fence looks very attractive.

Imagine how lopsided and unsymmetrical the landscape would look if there is more lamps along the walls surrounding your backyard for the right effect. Care Instructions The main attraction is its fall horizontalis, which is mainly grown in rock gardens. An turf interesting desert landscaping idea is to create a rapidly, and the Australian pine is commonly included in the list. Agonis flexuosa 'Burgundy' - These are stunning looking in the countryside where there is an abundance of wood.

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The display gardens of Austplant Nursery

I have been away in Victoria for the past few weeks, camping on Wilsons Prom and then visiting native nurseries and gardens on the Mornington Peninsula. It was a wonderful holiday that has left me with a touch of post holiday depression but plenty of photos of native plants to share with you!

One of the nurseries I visited which I have been looking forward to for ages was Austplant Nursery located on the Mornington Peninsula at Arthurs Seat, it has been run by the same family for over 40 years. The passion is still there, you can see it in the way the display gardens are cared for and continue to be developed despite the drought and competition from the big green shed 😉

In the image above in the foreground you can see a bank of Scaevola ‘Mauve Clusters’, thriving despite the dry clay soil. Sculpture plays a huge part in the display gardens as do bird baths and feeders and wind chimes and other garden ornaments.

It is these extra personal touches that make the grounds feel like the garden belongs to a gardener and is not just retail driven display.

In the image above there is a great specimen of Banksia ‘Stumpy Gold’ with a Eucalyptus ‘Dwarf Red’ budding up nicely behind it on the left.

This Acacia ‘Lime Magic’ was visible from almost every vantage point in the garden, creating a lovely soft textured backdrop of the smaller shrubs and groundcovers.

Check it out here spilling over the Agonis flexuosa nana and Correa reflexa var. nummularia, all the Acacia cognata hybrids grow so well in Victoria!

This is the biggest  and healthiest Grafted Standard Acacia ‘Limelight’ I have ever seen! isn’t it gorgeous? you can also see it in the background in the image below.

Austplant Nursery grows everything onsite and has a large range of mainly native plants, they also offer a design service and judging from the strong, bold plantings at the nursery they know what they are talking about.

Not all of the gardens are in the full blazing sun, some sections are under the dappled shade of established Eucalypts, these Banksia ‘Coastal Cushions’ and Lomandra ‘Silver Grace’ were both thriving in the part shade.

This Persoonia chamaepitys looked great cascading down a slope with a bank of Crowea saligna behind them, this plant doesn’t need flowers to look good, its soft pine needle leaves make a lush lime green carpet, even in the driest spots.

Here is Austromyrtus dulcis x tenuifolia ‘Copper Tops’, in full summer flower next to Kunzea ambigua prostrate in the shade behind it and in the image below.

The nursery and gardens are sited on a hill which has been cleverly terraced to allow for strolling and viewing both potted natives and planted beds. There is a sizeable dam at the bottom of the little valley and the whole place feels very tranquil and sheltered.

I enjoyed my very quick visi immensly and managed to walk away with only one plant but filled with inspiration and fresh ideas for plant combinations, Thankyou Austplant!

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Árbol pipermint (Agonis flexuosa)

Imagen – Gardensonline.com.au Cuando se vive en un suelo pobre en nutrientes, hay que buscar especies de plantas que puedan crecer bien en él. Sin embargo, no es una tarea tan complicada como en un principio nos podríamos pensar; de hecho, si lo que nos interesa ahora más es plantar algún á...

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Agonis flexuosa ‘Burgundy’ Myrtle