http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/ hakea hakeas native australian plants gardening garden growing Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:47 GMT billby01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/694 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/694 Ian, thats what I thought at first. Usually plants with special names are are hybrids or sports. cheers Bill ... Beauty is actually a hybrid and not a species. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:53:09 GMT Des & Jan Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/693 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/693 Ian Yes, there is a question about the true identity of H 'Burrendong Beauty'. Wrigley in 'Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas, 1988' states that the identity was Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:53:03 GMT Des & Jan Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/692 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/692 Bill I haven't heard anything to the contrary Regards Jan billby01 wrote: Is Burrendong Beauty the only example of ... Des & Jan Howard Lue Pottery Lue NSW Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:53:02 GMT Des & Jan Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/691 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/691 Scott It would be interesting to see what they produce. Regards Jan ... -- Des & Jan Howard Lue Pottery Lue NSW Australia 2850 02 6373 6419 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:16:31 GMT Ian Radford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/690 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/690 Bill I may be wrong, but I think I remember reading that Burrendong Beauty is actually a hybrid and not a species. Cheers Ian ... From: billby01 To: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:03:00 GMT Scott Ridges http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/689 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/689 Mine appears to have produced seed pods. Scott Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:25:25 GMT billby01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/688 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/688 Jan, how lucky was that!. Is Burrendong Beauty the only example of crassinervia left? ... was ... the ... identified ... high ... because ... started ... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:58:18 GMT Des & Jan Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/687 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/687 Bill H crassinervia is a WA hakea thought to be extinct in the wild. It was found that Burrendong Arboretum, which is about 60 km from here as the crow flies, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:04:37 GMT billby01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/686 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/686 Hi Jan, it's obviously not as humid as Sydney where you are then. Adelaide's dry climate is pretty well suited to the WA species as well, but the soil isn't. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:06:03 GMT Ian Radford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/685 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/685 I also have a H multilineata that does very well in Melbourne, although I think that H. laurina puts on the best display of my WA Hakeas. ... From: Des & Jan Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:20:59 GMT Des & Jan Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/684 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/684 Bill H bucculenta, among other WA hakeas, do very well where we live in the Central Tablelands of NSW. Mine are full grown and usually flower in spring. This Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:01:35 GMT billby01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/683 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/683 Thanks Ian! Yes I persisted with this one because it looked so great in photos. Being in Adelaide I had never seen one in the flesh, so I had to grow my own! Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:16:35 GMT Ian Radford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/682 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/682 Good work Bill. It is very satisfying to get something difficult to the flowering stage. Now you can move on to new challenges! ... From: billby01 To: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:39:50 GMT billby01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/681 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/681 Hi all, much to my surprise and delight, my Hakea Bucculenta has just produced its first magnificent flower. I've had some heartbreaks with this species over Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:11:19 GMT Ian Radford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/680 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakeas/message/680 Thanks very much for posting this ant. I had long been curious about the apparent anomaly of things like Lomatias being in both Australia and South America and