Some Australian native plants

[happypalms]

It’s not only exotic palms I grow iam working on a exotic Australian garden to plant around the outskirts of my tropical garden with some rare and unusual and common Australian plants plants from South Australia and Western Australia are challenging it’s funny with palms it’s the cold weather your up against with Australian native especially the rare exotic ones it’s the wet weather the exact opposite of tropical gardening wet weather or to much of it is detrimental to a lot of the more exotic natives fortunately the black sandy soil helps with drainage along with wet feet for plants it’s something iam still learning what will live and what won’t time will tell 

[Rivera]

Coast woollybush (Adenanthos sericeus, not sure if it shares the same common name over there) performs well in western San Francisco's dune sand and mixes well with California natives and xeric Mexican/Mesoamerican species. 

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, Rivera said:

Coast woollybush (Adenanthos sericeus, not sure if it shares the same common name over there) performs well in western San Francisco's dune sand and mixes well with California natives and xeric Mexican/Mesoamerican species. 

Correct the woolybush a magical little Australian plant my wife has the Australian plant obsession along with me but not as passionate about them as palms thanks for the grow tip 

[epiphyte]

do you grow any of the sandpaper figs such as ficus coronata or ficus opposita?  i've heard that their figs can be tasty.  what about ficus racemosa?  

on the tropical fruit forum there's an interesting thread about your native ficus... In search of the mysterious 'Ficus 52406' from North Queensland, Australia.

 

 

[WagnerMX]

The only truly Australian native I'm growing is Alpinia caerulea. It has very beautiful foliage, but I'm still waiting for it to flower.

 

[happypalms]

12 hours ago, epiphyte said:

do you grow any of the sandpaper figs such as ficus coronata or ficus opposita?  i've heard that their figs can be tasty.  what about ficus racemosa?  

on the tropical fruit forum there's an interesting thread about your native ficus... In search of the mysterious 'Ficus 52406' from North Queensland, Australia.

 

 

Yes I do have the sandpaper fig they pop up as weeds being native to my area the only fig I tolerate the others just drink water out of the ground to much 

[happypalms]

11 hours ago, WagnerMX said:

The only truly Australian native I'm growing is Alpinia caerulea. It has very beautiful foliage, but I'm still waiting for it to flower.

 

Try some of our native ginger species and the cape York Lilly a curcuma var they have nice flowers