it's alive!

[davidc4430]

grew this from a tiny seed

its called Echium candicans

saw it online somewhere a few years ago and thought the flowers looked good

its taken 3 years but it starting to flower

[peteepie]

I don't know about SA, but here in Victoria it's considered a weed.

May seem harsh but as someone who has spent many hours trying to eradicate boxthorn and serrated tussock I'd be destroying it.

[imastawka]

Have you actually read up on how many plants are considered weeds in Victoria?

It's a ridicuous amount.  Fair enough a plant might be a weed in one area, but all Victoria?

If they were all eradicated, we'd not have much of a garden left.  Even a pretty little Hyacinth is a weed apparently

https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/125919/ARI-Technical-Report-287-Advisory-list...

[peteepie]

Your link pretty much sums up the problem.

It's a shame more people don't take the problem seriously.

[*kazumi*]

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@peteepie wrote:

I don't know about SA, but here in Victoria it's considered a weed.

May seem harsh but as someone who has spent many hours trying to eradicate boxthorn and serrated tussock I'd be destroying it.

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that is interesting but mine came from seeds that I collected from a park where it was part of the landscaped flower beds.  This was in the western suburbs, where it is hot and dry, and it was only about 70cm high; I admired them there for years and they I got some seeds from them.  Here on Mornington peninsula only 1/2km from the beach, it grew to 2 m, then I cut it down and let one of the babies grow.   

[*kazumi*]

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@imastawka wrote:

Have you actually read up on how many plants are considered weeds in Victoria?

It's a ridicuous amount.  Fair enough a plant might be a weed in one area, but all Victoria?

If they were all eradicated, we'd not have much of a garden left.  Even a pretty little Hyacinth is a weed apparently

https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/125919/ARI-Technical-Report-287-Advisory-list...

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So is Kangaroo Paw and Spotty Gum?  This is not a list of banned plants, but of plants that potentially could spread..  Many of the plants are widespread in suburbs, and do need bit of control.  But basically plants either grow well and could pose a problem if allowed to spread; even natives that are taken from one state to another.  And then there are plants that will not thrive. 

[davidc4430]

where we used to live in the adelaide hills it was a completely legal plant that was so invasive, it just came up everywhere

but as it was cultivated as a valuble plant, its fruit is is squeezed to make a very saleable liquid

what is this plant?

the olive

yes, we had millions of them popping up everywhere

and yet they were being grown in very large fields as the oil is vary valuble

the native bush was full of the darn things, birds would eat the fruit then poop the seeds out all over starting new shrubs

[davidc4430]

flower heads are getting bigger

[davidc4430]

turning purple now

[davidc4430]

i think its reached full bloom size