new growth thread

[jason biggs]

late winter in South Africa and things are starting to move...
Please share your new growth photos - buds, shoots, flowers (whatever pops first)...

 

[jason biggs]

2 Australian natives that thrive over here.
- melaleuca bracteata (Johannesburg gold)
- syzygium paniculatum (brush cherry)

 

[jason biggs]

this one got me excited - 1st + only flower on my coral tree (erythrina lysistemon)

 

[jason biggs]

mango pip that i threw into one of my pots - maybe, maybe?

 

[jason biggs]

ficus natalensis

 

[nuttiest]

this one got me excited - 1st + only flower on my coral tree (erythrina lysistemon)View attachment 557328View attachment 557329

How old do they have to be? I have a couple and never saw flowers.

 

[jason biggs]

How old do they have to be? I have a couple and never saw flowers.

i think only a few years as in the nurseries here (in the bigger bags) they flower soon...
the secret i reckon is leaving the branches and not cutting back - my 1 flower bloomed on an uncut 1 year old branch.