I'm active on the US gardenweb and have gotten so much helpful advice that I thought maybe you guys could help me.

A friend of mine lives in Springwood, Queensland. Her neice just passed away from a brain tumour. I'd like to get her a plant of some sort (or maybe a small tree) that she could keep in memory of her neice but I am completely ignorant of what grows in her climate.

Does anyone have any plant recommendations or even better recommendations of a store where I could purchase the plant and have it delivered to her?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Tara

there are native plant online nurseries over here, i can't help with any suggestions but maybe a google search will turn them up?

would suggest you look for something indemic to yor friends area which is south/east qld, out around springwood there are some fairly dry areas and now of course we are in a deep drought more so, so and indemic native will be easier to care for.

also may be best to find out how big her garden space is or isn't this will dtermine whether you can only purchase a small shrubby plant to a couple of meters high or a larger shrub tree to say around 5 meters high.

if you need more help let me know i will do some searching for you and maybe make some recomendations?

len

I've been googling like crazy but I'm having trouble finding much of anything on the web that will deliver something plant or tree related. I've found a couple of florists that have potted plants for indoors, but their selection is very limited. As far as garden plants, I haven't really found much of anything, although I suspect I am looking in the wrong places.

With the drought conditions you're experiencing there, would I be better to get her an indoor plant? I'd love to find some sort of small ornamental type shrub or tree (like if it were here I would think of a weeping cherry or something similar maybe but I suspect something like that would be ill suited to the climate there) for her to plant outside, but don't want to burden her either if its going to be difficult this time of year.

If you've got any suggestions of companies I should look at, I'd greatly appreciate it. And even better, if you can think of any plants that would be especially suited to a small area and very easy to maintain and care for in her climate, I would be forever greatful! The native plants in your area are so foriegn to me I'm feeling rather clueless!

Thanks again!

Tara

aussie native plants

Plants online

len

All the best with you gift.
jlst