I rescued a tiny little Grevillea seedling whilst cleaning out my gutters
back in August. Put it in a little pot and nursed it and watched it grow
with vigour. Every few days I'd wander outside to check on my little guy -
it always brought a smile to my face to see it doing so well. All was good,
until New Years day in Sydney. 45+degC and the little guy karked it. As
brown as if it had been in the oven. Burnt to a crisp. I've since relocated
it into the shade and have been watering it in the vain hope that it might
recover. I think I need to let it go.

Poor little guy, I had big plans for it in my garden, was just waiting for
it to get a little bigger before I relased it into the wild.

"Bob Saccamano" <localhost [at] 127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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>I rescued a tiny little Grevillea seedling whilst cleaning out my gutters
> back in August. Put it in a little pot and nursed it and watched it grow
> with vigour. Every few days I'd wander outside to check on my little guy -
> it always brought a smile to my face to see it doing so well. All was
> good,
> until New Years day in Sydney. 45+degC and the little guy karked it. As
> brown as if it had been in the oven. Burnt to a crisp. I've since
> relocated
> it into the shade and have been watering it in the vain hope that it might
> recover. I think I need to let it go.
>
> Poor little guy, I had big plans for it in my garden, was just waiting for
> it to get a little bigger before I relased it into the wild.
>
>
>

I have some bonsais that are suffering from the heat, the small pots get so
hot and I don't really have anywhere else to put them. It's so sad!

Jen

In article <43bc6946$0$34428$c30e37c6 [at] ken-reader.news.telstra.net>,
"Bob Saccamano" <localhost [at] 127.0.0.1> wrote:

> until New Years day in Sydney. 45+degC and the little guy karked it. As
> brown as if it had been in the oven. Burnt to a crisp. I've since relocated
> it into the shade and have been watering it in the vain hope that it might
> recover. I think I need to let it go.

I am waiting to see if my fuchsia survives -- most of its leaves were cooked
-- and this is a mature plant!

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

One variety that survived really well in the heat wave was the weeds.

Its amazing how robust weeds are. I never water them or care for them, I
repeatedly destroy them and yet they continue to grow. The bugs don't
seem to worry about attacking them either.

If only we could eat the weeds instead of veges and fruit, and find some
varieties of weeds that have appealing flowers. We could let them grow
naturally and would only need to pull our the odd flower or vege plant
that happened to grow, much easier.

Chookie wrote:
> In article <43bc6946$0$34428$c30e37c6 [at] ken-reader.news.telstra.net>,
> "Bob Saccamano" <localhost [at] 127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>
>>until New Years day in Sydney. 45+degC and the little guy karked it. As
>>brown as if it had been in the oven. Burnt to a crisp. I've since relocated
>>it into the shade and have been watering it in the vain hope that it might
>>recover. I think I need to let it go.
>
>
> I am waiting to see if my fuchsia survives -- most of its leaves were cooked
> -- and this is a mature plant!
>

--

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> One variety that survived really well in the heat wave was the
weeds.
>
> (...)
> If only we could eat the weeds instead of veges and fruit, and find
some
> varieties of weeds that have appealing flowers.
>
> ***
>
> Hi,
>
> You can actually eat some weeds. The French love Dandelion leaves
in salad. Dandelion is used in tea as a herbal remedy.
>
> Novice.