I discovered a spindly 35cm plant growing and hiding in my sage bed here in a suburb of Sydney, Australia in October (our spring). As I ...Read Moredidn't want it there, I just dug it out, cut the stem into two pieces and stuck them in a 10cm pot which I kept on my outdoor propogaging table. After a couple of months I had two flourishing plants with the originally rooted piece having small leaves and always with flower. I separated them into two pots.
The propogated piece was growing vigorously but with larger leaves. After about 6 months it was densely foliaged , 10cm tall and wide and showed its first flower.
On this table they have the sun from mid-morning to mid-afternoon --- sometimes up to 40C+. They were watered according to the weather demands --- no special favouring as until now I didn't even know what plant it was! I found its identity today in a nursery as a bonsai plant.
Now I read that it can be pernicky in its growing needs! Have I, in my ignorance, treated it in a care-less fashion and it has naturally thrived on such casual treatment or have I been just really lucky?
I discovered a spindly 35cm plant growing and hiding in my sage bed here in a suburb of Sydney, Australia in October (our spring). As I ...Read More