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Please help!!! My natives are yellowing
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Posted by pauleanne QLD/Stanthorpe (My Page) on Fri, May 16, 08 at 8:22
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I am new to this forum and also to native gardening and any help would be truly appreciated.
I have bought a selection of natives that are suitable to my area,(We wake to frosts most mornings) and I have noticed that quite a few of my native plants have yellowing leaves. Most of the plants are forms of grevillea's There are many areas that I have planted 2 identical plants side by side and one of them will get yellowing leaves and stunted growth and the other is going great guns. Any ideas what may be causing my problems??
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RE: Please help!!! My natives are yellowing
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| Hi there and Welcome .. I have a few Grevillea banksii growing and the leaves go yellow this time of the year, but side my side and stunted growth I don't know strange that one plant is infected but not the other.. I know root rot causes yellowing of leaves and stunted growth do they have good drainage and are not waterlogged, not that we get enough rain here to kill anything though I did lose a few plants to that a few months ago.. Do a search on root rot and you may be able to find a answer to your problem.. Sorry I cannot help much...Mary-Anne |
RE: Please help!!! My natives are yellowing
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| I had the same problem with a Banksia marginata that was a very sickly yellow for a long time. It turned out to be magnesium defficient. Try a little magnesium on your yellowing natives and see if that solves the problem. |
RE: Please help!!! My natives are yellowing
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- Posted by liatris FraserCoast,Qld (My Page) on
Sat, Jun 14, 08 at 18:55
| If it's a uniform yellow, the problem is probably a lack of iron, which can be solved with an application of iron chelates. |
RE: Please help!!! My natives are yellowing
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For future plantings, what about considering choosing from local natives? These are adapted to your soil, and you would therefore have no need to "correct" it - ie alter it to resemble soil from elsewhere - to make them grow well. Many of us would LOVE to be able to grow all those wonderful flowers that we see when visiting Girraween National Park, but have to "correct" our soil like mad to achieve it, and even then we end up with plants which are short-lived because they are never really happy in the different soil.
I believe there is a branch of the Sociey for Growing Australian Plants in Stanthorpe which should be a good source of information and plants. I seem to remember a very good nursery in Eukey road, too. I remember they had that local Hardenbergia with the black leaves...
Best of luck with it all.
Trish |
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