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Roma

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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2013, 07:09:01 PM »
Looks like an Acacia to me
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2013, 12:41:34 PM »
When visiting the nursery Hokonui Alpines earlier in the week I found this luscious mulch. Can you guess what it is? Previous images from the nursery which I've posted from time to time will give a clue. It is fine and soft, sweet-smelling and a really wonderful stuff for round the likes of trilliums and other cool-loving plants.  Solution if no correct guesses within a week. :)
« Last Edit: August 29, 2013, 12:44:10 PM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2013, 02:12:48 PM »
Composted guanaco/llama droppings?
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2013, 04:07:10 AM »
Roma was correct. It is Acacia longifolia, the Sydney Golden, or Long-leaved Wattle.
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2013, 10:18:01 AM »
Maybe decomposing Pampas Grass - Cortaderia selloana/richardii ?
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #20 on: September 02, 2013, 10:54:01 PM »
You're in the right country - or geographical area anyway - Cliff and Richard. :)
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2013, 05:27:19 AM »
Shredded alpacas???
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2013, 06:59:39 AM »
I said it was sweet-smelling. ::)
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2013, 07:19:52 AM »
Macerated tecophileas?  Aaaaaagh!!!   :o :o :o :'( :'( :'(
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2013, 08:54:07 AM »
Looks like the contents of my vacuum cleaner after I've used the dining room as my packing shed. ::)
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2013, 08:58:37 AM »
Composted Bracken or Ferns

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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #26 on: September 03, 2013, 11:36:56 AM »
Do I detect some rather sad attempts at humour in there?  :-\
Does anyone remember this picture? I can't work out when I took it, but a few years ago now. It is Azorella trifurcata but is no more, instead a lovely shredded mulch. Perhaps your suggestion is closest Jean so you win the prize. A free alpaca will be setting off from the SA pampas within days and can be expected to reach Dunblane at, well, some future date. They make lovely pets with delightful faces so you will enjoy his/her company and will be able to shear the wool for warm woolly jersies. :)
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2013, 12:01:46 PM »
Well I never :  shredded Azorella trifurcata as a mulch! :o

Any of us who have viewed the Hokinui  plantlists will have been impressed and Lesley has told us many times of her unsurpassed admiration for the work of Louise and her brother at this most excellent NZ nursery but now we discover that the place even has a better quality of mulch!! 8)  Fantastic!

I'm somewhat surprised that the resulting mulch from this plant is both soft and sweet smelling - wonderful what we can learn here, it really is!
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #28 on: September 04, 2013, 03:48:04 AM »
Maggi I think if the mulch were properly dried and then filled into a mattress cover, it would make a jolly comfortable bed to lie on. :)
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2013, 11:24:41 AM »
any ideas what this could be ?

 :D :D :D
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