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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Orchids are, so far, one of only two plants I can't grow at all (the other is bamboo). My only mature african violet is sulking (I think it's not getting enough light in its current position.) I certainly couldn't grow either outside here!
Also - pics!
Thai basil and African Blue basil are both perennial - they're tender, though. The area I had them in isn't usually hit by frost, but this year it was - twice. Normal basil I don't have any problems growing (I usually end up making a lot of pesto towards the end of the growing season to use it all up!).
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We've just planted some Thai Basil, which seems to be liking our climate better than the ordinary stuff. We've also had better luck with the saw-toothed coriander than with the normal stuff. The mint seems happy too.
The two lime trees are doing fine. The Tahitian is growing well, and the Kaffir is following. We occasionally have to hunt a stinkbug or two off them, but they're not badly attacked.
My three trees are going well. One is getting close to beating the second story of the house. They're blocking some of the view, but they're also nice to look through. They're definitely trees now though, in the sense of we'd have to apply to local council to bring them down. And they're flowering, so the birds are coming, and hopefully finally noticing the "green corridor" they provide past our house.
The palms are dropping leaves and flowering like all get-out. I'll have to chop the flower-branches, before they fruit. The might bring in the bats and our local possum, but they also send palm shoots up by the hundreds when they fall. I'll probably leave a few flower-branches along the fence, for possum-friend.
We still haven't worked on our new vegetable gardens - they're still just sand. Well get there though. We just have to find out what grows well around here and that we eat a lot of.
Our cycads have got huuuuuge.
Cheers,
Marc