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Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on Sat, Nov 26, 05 at 1:23
Hi,
I have just purchased some Bauera rubioides (white), and I'm getting conflicting advice on where it'll do best in my garden. The label just says Bauera rubioides alba, so I don't know what form it is, but it doesn't look like the smaller variety. The labels also say dappled or part shade, not sun. I intended to plant in a shady spot that gets morning sun. It's free draining, but moist. This spot really only gets early morning sun, and that's all. My searches for information differ from sun to full shade. I would love to hear the opinions of the GW's on the sun needs of this plant.
Thanks
Andrea |
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RE: bauera rubioides advice
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| Bauera rubioides is a tought little beasty as long as it gets water. I've grown it submerged in a pond without trouble! You can easily take cuttings by just sticking bits in the ground any time it is reliably wet. I've grown it in full sun, but you have to work to keep the water up. Your position (morning sun only) sounds good, and it should do well. I've grown it in full shade without problems - it tends to look greener there. In the wild it tends to grow alongside creeks in the shade. |
RE: bauera rubioides advice
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 27, 05 at 1:49
Excellent feedback as usual Nathan.
I just couldn't get a summation of the information from various resources into my head. You've summed it up beautifully, and from what I've read, I think the spot I had in mind should work. The soil always seems to be moist there, which is a bit of a mystery as it is near a dreaded camphour laurel, and my guess it would be fairly dry due to the competition from the tree roots, but a prostanthera growing nearby for about six years and as far as I know never been watered. I'll see how I go.
thanks again
Andrea |
RE: bauera rubioides advice
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| I bought one of these plants last year and the label, (probably the same one), said it required moist shade. Since it's a plant that doesn't have a lot to say for itself, I used it to fill a gap underneath an old Banksia where, it receives only dappled light. As for the moisture, my garden is sandy, sloping, and full of rocks but, I'm always amazed at how damp the soil is beneath the surface, (I think it must be those rocks). My little plant was only about 25cm high this time last year. It's now about 40cm high and covered in little sprinkles of white flowers. My plant certainly looks happy and, it sounds to me as though yours will be happy too. |
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 27, 05 at 3:17
| Wattleblossum your garden sandy sloping and full of rocks sounds exactly like mine. |
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| You'd better get rid of the camphour laurel unless you want a 30m diameter tree. Also, it would be best to poison it, as they sucker like crazy if you just cut them down. Mum took 10 years of pulling out suckers before she got rid of hers! Our new house (did I mention that we've finally bought a house?) has a camphour laurel, and it's one of the first things to go! I'm planning to replace it with my red cedar I've been growing in a tub for the last 3 years. Also to go is a large clarret ash, some polygalas, agapanthus, photinia, a queensland box and some rather weedy looking geraniums. Some nifty things we saw when we were inspecting the place were microtis and drosera growing all through the lawn and a perhaps 1m deep sandy soil. Sandy soil is remarkably good at holding water - people often think that sandy soil = well drained, but in fact our current rental property is on sandy loam, and it was once a swamp. If you want well drained you really do need something like gravel. |
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 27, 05 at 5:38
| Please don't start me with the agapanthus. There seems to be some rule in my surrounding suburbs that if you have a fence you must plant a row of agapanthus along the street front of it. Congratulations on the house Nathan. Just think what you can do now you have your own patch of dirt! Unfortunately the camphour laurel is not technically on our property, its on the border between our fenceless yard. A little more chatting and negotiating with the neighbours needs to be had regarding that tree.
I have suckers all over, and am always pulling them out. |
RE: bauera rubioides advice
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| You know what they say about camphour-laurel suckers: There's one born every minute. |
RE: bauera rubioides advice
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- Posted by pos02 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 27, 05 at 17:05
| Getting back to the Bauera rubiodes question, we have one growing in a westerly position, getting afternoon sun in the summer. It is in a very moist bed however, since we have drainage problems in that bed. It seems to be doing quite well. This is our second attempt - the first was growing well also, until it dropped dead. Could have been the dog marking again! We've lost a few plants to that. |
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 27, 05 at 21:21
| Thanks pos02, we've no dogs so maybe it should work. By the way Happy Birthday. |
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