March 2004
Banksia robur
This photos just doesn't capture
the unbelievable metallic blue/green colour of the flower.
Not long afterwards, the whole bush blew over in a storm. I was going to take
it away,
but found it still had a root in the ground so I left it lying where it fell.
A few months
later it was still happily growing with new branches sprouting vertically
from the horizontal trunk!
We must install 300 drip irrigators
from our treatment plant, so I had this new
raised bed created and covered it with mulch, ready to plant.
This the other end of the new bed.
I wonder how it will be looking this time next year
The same bed, looking from the other
direction.
Should be plenty of room for a few new plants