September 2009
Banksia Caleyi
I bought this banksia as a tiny
little plant in a thumb pot, at the Wilson Park Spring Plant Sale
in Berwick, several years ago. Actually I bought two (they were only a couple
of dollars each)
and planted one in the garden and the other in a large pot.
The one planted in the garden looks quite healthy, but has shown no sign of
flowering
in the four or five years it's been there. The one in the pot seems to have
done much better,
although I shouldn't have put the pot just where I did, as its roots have
grown through
the bottom of the pot and I think it would die if I shifted it. I'm keen to
see how far the
flower develops as I can't remember what the specimen plant at the sale looked
like -
except for the extraordinary maroon colour