Tish
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That is stunning.
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Tish
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Turmeric, native to N.T.
DailyArtsyCrafter
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There are a number of bulbs coming up now in my garden including scilla, freesias, lachenalia and species tulip. This was the first tulip to open for me. So good at spreading itself around that it would be a weed where you don’t want it.
Seen from below, but tricky lighting and bad focus on one of them.
SO gorgeous! I'd love to have a lot of these weeds!
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Lovely Lantana, with the most common sherbet-like colors of pink, yellow and orange. You can't see much of the yellow and orange here. I like the small mounds of tightly-packed blooms.
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Butterflies appreciate them to.
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Would never have expected such a popular substance could come such a precious looking plant. I wonder if comes from leaves, flowers or roots?
Pretty @DailyArtsyCrafter but Classified as nasty .~ weed in Australia , sadly it can be found in most national parks in Australia.
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****lantana (both Lantana camara and Lantana montevidensis) is considered a noxious weed in Australia, particularly in Queensland and New South Wales, South Australia ~ and is listed as a "weed of national significance" due to its invasive nature and …..environmental impact.
If people put their plant cutting in green bins instead of dumping on roadsides this would not happen .
Agapanthus~ have just been declared a noxious weed for the reasons as above
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They are stunning @MarkD and for some unexplained reason the wreath flowers tend to grow in cemeteries in WA
Where you also find stunning grevilleas and banksias .. growing on roadsides , it’s a pity we didn’t have the great photography equipment we have now days ( my DH iphone ) is the same as mine , Iphone 12 but his is the top of the range and it takes nice clear photos ( where my phone is only a standard iPhone 12 ) he wanted the better one as he connects his hearing aids to it when driving or when in a social gathering so he can hear though the phone what they are saying .
We was in WA in 2006 so it’s a long time ago
DailyArtsyCrafter
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Pretty @DailyArtsyCrafter but Classified as nasty .~ weed in Australia , sadly it can be found in most national parks in Australia.
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****lantana (both Lantana camara and Lantana montevidensis) is considered a noxious weed in Australia, particularly in Queensland and New South Wales, South Australia ~ and is listed as a "weed of national significance" due to its invasive nature and …..environmental impact.
If people put their plant cutting in green bins instead of dumping on roadsides this would not happen .
Agapanthus~ have just been declared a noxious weed for the reasons as above
They are sold in retail gardening sections and nurseries here in the US every spring. I look for the pretty, shrub-like plants for sale in pots every year. I've read similar to what you've shared about other botanicals that are not native to a country. One is the invasive effect that bamboo can have in areas here in the US, and I think bamboo is beautiful.
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Mine's just a iPhone 10, so no macro lens for me. Oh well, better than nothing.
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Learned that lesson the hard way. I grew black bamboo for many years and it was always well behaved and looked great until one day I found it coming up all over that half of the back garden closest to my pond as well as in the community orchard next door. Fortunately my stepson is an engineer and with his help was able to remove it all.
His method was to use a pick axe around each place it popped up to locate the roots which are as tough as armored cable. He'd dig enough around it to insert a loop of webbing for climbing. He'd made a teepee of three boards and suspended a power wench from the top with a hook. Once a new section was secured in the webbing material he'd use the hoist to pull it up.
Very satisfying to see long runs of the roots pop up each time. He did this again once more emerged and after that on the rare occasion a sprout emerged, instead of digging it up I just exposed as much of it as I could and then I used round up and waited for it to turn black before removing it. Never again!
DailyArtsyCrafter
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I have heard this and that they stretch out interminably!
Tish
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As far as I am aware it comes from the underground stems/roots not from the flowers or leaves.
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Tish
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Another native to N.T. Red Ginger that also comes from it's roots.
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Like @MarkD ….I planted an invasive plant ….
…..being standard turmeric and it was …..becoming invasive ,.. ( so I dug it out ) as it’s like a small tuber like root system. @Tish when I dug mine out it had about 40 tubers about the size of a mini cucumber like you can buy in WW in a punnet .
Actually I put it on Gumtree ( to give away ) after after digging it out, and I had heaps of people wanting it
We did a bus trip to Bucks exotic fruit farm Home - Buck's Farm. ( Queensland )
on one one of our usual winter escapes to Coolangatta ..it was the only time Id ever seen Tumeric ( tubers ).prior to planting one tiny plant I got from a online plant nursery
Also got to taste ~ Finger limes ~ very unusual ..fruit
Bamboo grows on the sides of roads here, Mark … I believe you get a (clumping) bamboo that’s not as invasive
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DailyArtsyCrafter
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I think they might be related to some I saw, which were darker purple, called Beauty Berry. I love this fuchsia!
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I got this lantana pic from Google to show how it looked when I first saw some in my mother's yard in Florida. The first pic that I shared, #679, was my actual photo from one that was growing in the yard of a house that I was renting. The colors were not as variegated as what I'd seen at my mom's.
I fell in love with lantana mainly because of how the pinks, oranges and golds blend together on each bloom (see the blossom at the front bottom). That's why I call it sherbets. It is an annual or perennial, small, broadleaf evergreen shrub in the Verbenaceae (verbena) family that has woody stems but a sprawling habit. I am surprised at how many colors it comes in and that it can grow from 1 to 6 feet high and 3 to 5 feet wide. It is native to the West Indies and Mexico to Tropical America.
I fell in love with lantana mainly because of how the pinks, oranges and golds blend together on each bloom (see the blossom at the front bottom). That's why I call it sherbets. It is an annual or perennial, small, broadleaf evergreen shrub in the Verbenaceae (verbena) family that has woody stems but a sprawling habit. I am surprised at how many colors it comes in and that it can grow from 1 to 6 feet high and 3 to 5 feet wide. It is native to the West Indies and Mexico to Tropical America.
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I thought I had but turns out black bamboo is a runner and every bit as invasives as it’s golden relative we see more commonly. No more bamboo for me.
no one would argue how pretty lantana is …how could they
….it used to grow well where I was born in New South Wales ( I’m Aussie ) ~ it was very arid part of Australia ……..We as kids ….used pull the colour flower bits out and throw over each others heads ( they come out easy ) …don’t know why it was just something we did….singing ~ your getting married …wonder if they were used as confetti at any time ?
Thanks for adding pretty photo @DailyArtsyCrafter
Most who have bamboo in their gardens grow it in pots ..,but that doesn’t stop it invading …..many go out and cut the wild bamboo that grows here , for tomato or bean growing stakes …..but I’ve heard stories of “stakes “ growing if you don't make sure they are throughly dry before using in gardens.
Do you grow any fruits or veggies ?
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Azaleas are a-blooming in GA
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No vegetables and less and less fruit too. In the beginning, if you couldn't eat it, I wouldn't grow it. But now I just don't want to feed any larger population of squirrels and rats than what we have now. Still have a plum, a couple of apple trees, a couple persimmon trees and a fig tree.