Hi everyone it's great to meet fellow plant nerds. i've just moved to Perth (south west coast Australia temperate- sub tropical) from Melbourne (south east coast Aust- temperate and highly changeable) so had to leave most of my garden behind due to quarantine regulations. Boo hoo. I'm on strongly sloping jarra bushland here, plan to put in about half natives and the other half including unusual deciduous trees, heaps of bromeliads, epiphytes, orchids, ariseums, carnivorous plants, a rainforest, lots of sculpture, an underground chook house etc etc. Been here 2 months and propagating like crazy to make a new garden. planted a lemon tree, an orange, double grafted plum, an apricot, passionfruit and a mulberry so far as well as lots of vegies and herbs, worm farm rock and rolling as well as edible aquatic plants. yeeha lovely to meet you all,yours greenly
A big welcome from a frozen solid Scotland Brombear. It's good to know that you're busy planning your new garden and propagating like mad to fill it. :-D You must show us some photographs as we'd all love to see your 'work in progress' as follow it as it takes shape.
Welcome to the Stew from Texas. We love pictures of gardens, hobbies, pets...just about anything and everything!
Hi Brombear and a warm welcome to GardenStew. Sounds like you'll have no problems settling in here Don't forget to check out our blogs, member map and upload any plant images you have to GardenStew PLANTS for all to see Details here: http://www.gardenstew.com/plantstew/help#3 // frank
Hi Brombear, Perth is really a nice place ..... wish I could be there again. Welcome from hot and humid Malaysia.
thank you everyone for your warm welcome! I feel very much at home already, it will be great to have not only a garden resource but a garden community. I will post up some photos soon. In the meantime, I have a question if anyone has any experience with this one.. I recently bought a zamia furfurea, cardboard palm, in a 5" pot. I haven't repotted it, so it is as has come from nursery. It is in bright light with about 5 hours direct sun every day. (I'm a bit wary of putting it in full sun as full sun in Perth appears to be a lot stronger than elsewhere in Aust or in the northern hemisphere that i've expereinced.) The leaves- all of them- are yellowing off. It doesn't look healthy. I am assuming it would like a fairly mineral rich, well drained soil as it comes from Mexico, but it shouldn't be needing fertilising this soon after acquiring it (on the assumption that the nursery have given it a controlled release fertiliser). How nutrient hungry is this plant? Is it suffering from not enough light? Thank you green ones far and wide
Welcome, Brombear, from very wintery Norway. Brrr. I am happy to see that some people can garden even though I cant. It helps with the winter blues. Now could you please post some photos of your sunny-and-dry-sounding landscape? *big begging eyes here* As for your palm question, I'd post that in the plant discussion forums. I think more people will read it there.
Hi Bombear, welcome to GardenStew from north Texas where it has been exceptionally cold and I have had a head cold to go along with it. Anytime you are ready to post pictures, we are more than ready to see them. Like Droopy said, if you post your question about the Palm plant in the http://www.gardenstew.com/viewforum.php?f=5 forum it will be read by more people and probably by one or more who will have good information for you.
thanks everyone again for your welcomes! and thank you, i will post my question on the forum, I've never ever before contributed to a forum or blog so this is a first for this plant geek. for all of you in the northern hemisphere, i find it amzing to conceive of a garden where snow renders everything dormant over winter in such harsh extremes. But then I suppose you may not have days up to 47 degrees C, where nights might only drop down to 37. The world. What an amazing place! be fruity and green :-D brombear
