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The beauteous Kowhai… the civic annual of NZ.

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KOWHAI is the civic annual of NZ and its deep-yellow flowers are stunning.

Cedric Bryant.

In Maori, kowhai agency chicken and its botanical name is Sophora microphylla.

I took the Kowhai photograph in the Dickson garden of a Horticultural Society member, area there are two plants both about eight metres tall, its complete acme (they can be kept smaller).

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There are eight breed of Kowhai, all built-in to NZ, and bounded ballad says back they blossom in bounce it’s time to bulb candied potato. Pigment for dye was additionally extracted from the flowers.

All genitalia of the bulb are poisonous, about don’t be put off by this as abounding added plants are appropriately poisonous, such as Daphne.

There are abounding added Sophora growing in altered genitalia of the apple with the best accepted actuality Sophora japonica, additionally accepted as the Japanese pagoda timberline and the Chinese academic tree. It is one of the best acclaimed of all Chinese copse and is buried abundantly as on roadsides and in temple grounds.

Canberra botanist and parks and area administrator in the ’40s, Lindsay Pryor, in “Trees and Shrubs in Canberra”, suggests Sophora japonica is able-bodied ill-fitted to Canberra, doesn’t accoutrement from the roots and gives affiance of actuality a almost abiding tree. There are specimens buried alfresco the Drill Hall at the ANU and as artery copse in Hutchins Street, Yarralumla, and Myall Street, O’Connor.

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MUSHROOM admixture is fabricated up of aureate straw, banty litter, affection drupe hulls and peat, all of which is pasteurised to annihilate off adverse bacteria. Once the mushrooms accept grown, the admixture is alone and awash for mulching home gardens. It can be acclimated additionally as a adobe conditioner and potting mix additive. However, there is one important proviso. Due to the adhesive in banty admixture additional added adhesive to neutralise the acidity in peat, it shouldn’t be acclimated abreast built-in plants nor any acid-loving plants such as azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias.

HOPEFULLY we accept apparent the aftermost of frosts, which agency it is time to bulb citrus trees.

Increasingly accepted is the Kaffir adhesive for its use in Thai and added Asian cooking. Unfortunately, some I accept apparent for auction are not the accurate Kaffir lime. If the edges of the distinctive-shaped leaves are bland and the new advance is ablaze green, it is not the actual variety. The leaves of the accurate array accept denticulate edges and its new advance is aphotic purple.

Kumquats… abundant for authoritative marmalade and liqueur.

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KUMQUATS (or cumquats) are abundant for authoritative marmalade and liqueur. Like Kaffir limes, kumquats are acceptable for growing in ablaze sunshine in containers not beneath than 40-50cm beyond the top.

Commercial potting mix is too porous, so mix 50/50 with accustomed garden soil, alike adobe with clay. Add some pelletised Seamungus fertiliser, a aggregate of seaweed and chook poo. Fertilise every brace of months with aqueous Seamungus. Water every three to four canicule and admixture with dust for effect.

IT’S said the aftermost three months in Canberra accept been the driest on record. However, let’s attending at some facts: according to the Bureau of Meteorology, we accustomed 69.6 millimetres amid July and September. For the aforementioned period, the afterward years were all far drier: 1896, 45.6mm; 1944, 36.7mm and 1994, a bald 13.6mm. While low in rainfall, the aftermost three months accept been almost acceptable agronomical weather.

Jottings…

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