This is not a picture of the fifth hakea I have murdered in my garden. The hakea in question has taken up residence in my compost heap, a carbonised shell of its former self. Am now officially banning myself from fraternising with any member of the genus. I imagine this will be welcome news to all the hakeas sitting on garden nursery shelves in the Canberra region who have taken to hiding amongst the wisteria when they see me coming. Not that I'm swearing off the proteaceae family all together, the above is a splendid Leucospermum cordifolium x glabrum specimen that is, at least the last time I looked, still alive. Fingers crossed that it remains that way.
Words I Like
- "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." Alfred Austin
- "My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap." Bette Midler
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Me too!!!
Well....not hakeas but a few proteaceaes.
I've killed off a magnificent Leucospermum Somethingorother
Seen here before death came a-knocking.
http://poofanditsgone.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
I also killed a Leucadendron laureolum x strobilinum (summer sun) and it was an expensive one!
But I have an Little Prince that is doing ok and an Inca Gold that is still alive.
I might have to have my lesson drummed into me a few more times - I'm determined to MAKE one of those Leucospermums live in my garden and it's gunna LIKE it, I tell ya!
Posted by: freefalling | 09/25/2009 at 07:27 AM