Mallee Native Plants
2 Comments »5th March, 2006; Category: General
I love propagating plants! The idea of getting something for nothing works well in gardening! Digging up a clump and breaking it into many pieces which you then plant elsewhere or share with a friend or pot up for sale is fun. Picking a seed pod, waiting for it to open and shed the seeds inside, sowing the seeds and then planting out lots of little plants is very satisfying. Taking cuttings from plants, poking them into an appropriate potting mix, then discovering the roots on the bottom of each little piece is miraculous. I feel excited every time I upend the contents of a pot of cuttings, or seedlings, in preparation for potting on into individual pots.
What an amazing thing to happen. A large tree in your local playground or park probably grew from a seed smaller than the size of a full stop on this page!
In this blog I hope to pass on many ideas of what plants you can try in your garden, whatever its size. Also hints and tips and information about growing Australian native plants in particular and what could make gardening with these plants more of a pleasure. Not to mention the side benefits to be gained from being outside getting dirty.
My nursery, Mallee Native Plants Nursery, is where I work. The website for it is being worked on now. I hope soon to have a catalogue available on line, when son Simon (IT Whiz) gets it ready for me to operate.