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Kadee said:
Not to sound unkind in any way @Pinky that’s red flowering gum tree on your teapot
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Not..

Sturt s desert pea…..your teapot is really nice .

We had a red flowering gum tree in out front yard when we lived in Whyalla ( hubs lived there when I met him)

Australian Wildflower red flowering gum - seed

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Aaaah, you know @Kadee .. I thought they kind of looked different from Sturt's Desert Pea!
Thank you for pointing out the error. Now I know exactly what is on my teapot!
 
Pinky said:
Aaaah, you know @Kadee .. I thought they kind of looked different from Sturt's Desert Pea!
Thank you for pointing out the error. Now I know exactly what is on my teapot!
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your teapot is beautiful @Pinky and the Australian red flowering gum is stunning when in full flower, we’ve got quite a few gum trees in a huge reserve right across the road from us , but they are all native to this area ..so no red flowering gum…
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
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Sure are a lot of wonderful cactus flowers, and their shape and foliage is nothing to sneeze at.


Kadee said:
One of my favourite hardy plants my geraniums


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I've been meaning to get back to the geraniums or pelargoniums you mentioned. For those of us in arid regions, they are the most viable subject for a pot that isn't near a water spigot. They can also be attractive as you've shown, some in leave as well as flower.

My favorites are a couple that grow quite tall as they make bigger visual impression. This first one is cultivar called Platinum as uncovered by my neighbor and early gardening buddy Sean who wrote about if for the bulletin of the California Horticultural society. He took the first photo himself at a yearly garden/studio party we used to host; in it you can see how well it competed with the rose Sally Holmes on the one side of the arch (the rose on the other side is 'Graham Thomas').

The other I leant to him to include. You can see in his first photo ho well this pelargonium competed with that rose in the early going. You can better see all the color in the leaf in this other photo of it. I also prefer its salmon flowers to more gaudy pinks.

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Many years later the Sally Holmes rose and the 'Queen of Sheba' Podranea vine that replaced 'Graham Thomas' on the other side have largely taken the high ground out of reach for my Platinum pelargonium but just his past season it was still squeezing in where it could.

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Another pinkish colored pelargonium surprised me by how large it got. It started off as a little color near the fountain but was soon large enough to cover it up so I banished it our northwest corner in the shade of our plum tree and a eucalypt. It is huge there now.

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In the shade the flowers are much darker too, go figure.

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To better appreciate how large it has gotten you'd have to look at this between the 15 second and 30 second mark.

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Love the geraniums @MarkD and you do a really good job of photographing them , I’ve got a small one much like the dark leaf orange one,

Ive got about a dozen or so in pots and they got quite large so I’ve recently gave them a big cut back as my plan is to put them into bigger pots and rather than have them all together place them in diffrent spots …they were only all together for watering purposes while we was away ….

We live on a corner and I’ve got a few planted / growing in limestone and crusher dust on the outside of our fence
some have died but there is some still growing and of course some break them off in a effort to get a cutting
That “ pretty” purple one I posted is growing under my apple (s) trees ( two trees planted on one hole )
I must take a photo of the other as we call rosebud type ..one that’s like apple blossom and a darker pinkish Red same thing like a bunch of mini rosebud shape flowers .
Ive got one near the apricots tree in a pot it’s got darkish leaves and a samony colour flower

Good video Mark …yes the geraniums can grow tall …it’s kinda strange we live in a high fire. danger zone …mainly due to cereal crops in the area and we’ve got metal fences ..think it’s referred to as post and rail colour bond fencing ….but in Queensland where they have huge fires that can burn for months they have wood fences much like yours ….ive got a photo of one stay in Queensland we were staying on Tambourine mountain and a fire got away from a “control burn“ on the mountain …and right next to the house was 100 foot high types of gum trees and wood fences…it was very scary 😟…we had to leave .. we traveled 800 km in one hit to get away from the fire / smoke
 
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