Kangaroo Paw Bush Pearl - Creating a Hedge

This striking plant has red coloured flowers that sometimes in certain angles resemble the the paws of a kangaroo.

This particular variety is special because of how many flowers it produces that will liven up a tiny portion of your backyard.

The Kangaroo Paw Bush Pearl Plant is for sale at Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery here:

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Here's a beautiful little Ozzie Native
for anyone who likes a little
bit of colour in your garden.
and lovese growing Australian plants.
This is the Bush Pearl
Kangaroo Paw
And like all the kangaroo paws.
It's just a stunning edging plant
to have in your garden.I've just
got it popped in the corner of this
Herb garden and it just brings
a little bit of joy to everybody who
sees it during the day it's
absolutely stunning
To grow this all you need to do
is cut off the spent flowers
and you can actually lift and
and divide it so you can see
all these little plantlets that are
growing and if you want to
you can lift your plant when it
finishes flowering, divide these
into individual plants and you'll
end up with having 10
of these beautiful things in
your garden

Lilly Pilly Edible Hedge the Bushfood Riberry (Syzygium luehmanii)

Lilly Pilly Edible Hedge Riberry

Video Transcript
This beautiful hedge here is a Riberry Hedge, Syzigium luehmanii and it is a perfect bushfood for hedging. You can see it has this gorgeous leaf flush which is what this is primarily grown for. So this hedge is cut back by using pruning sheers and what that does is it keeps this juvenile leaf flush coming on this hedge so it doesn't fruit so if you wanted your hedge to fruit and produce a massive crop of fruits you'd need to use your cincturing tool to cincture these plants and then you'd actually encourage flowering and fruiting. So if you want a fruiting hedge cincture your trees to keep them small and dwarf them and if you want  a beautiful leaf flush use your pruning sheers to hedge them.

Midyium Berry or Midgen Fruit Tree for Sale

The Midyim berry fruit tree can handle a wide range of climates and in colder climates its foliage has a more reddish shade. Great for a low informal hedge with edible sweet berries and very bird attracting. Can suit both full and semi shade and only grows to 1m. A great Australian native from Daleys fruit tree nursery. ‪

Acerola Fruit Tree

The Acerola is one of our most popular shrubs and for good reason. It is only small, growing to about 3m and is perfect for hedging. It is highly attractive with delightful little pink flowers followed by bright red fruits that deepen to a maroon-red as they fully ripen. 

Acerola Fruit Tree

The small tasty fruits of the Florida Sweet selection are packed with vitamin C and have a delicious sweet acid flavour. It is a fabulous shrub for anyone who loves to browse while out in the garden.

Video: Feijoa Tree or Pineapple Guava Tree

Buy Feijoa Trees or Pineapple Guava Trees

Tea Production a Home

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TEA AT HOME

For personal use you will need about 4 bushes for the average family of tea drinkers. The bushes need to be planted in a well-drained area. Most soil types will do though they prefer slightly acidic soil. They will tolerate full sun of partial shade, not full shade. Tea likes plenty of water, but will not tolerate standing in water. Fertilize with a hight nitrogen fertiliser, in October and February.

Prune your bushes so that they spread out to form a flattop hedge. Prune in February for the first 3 years then every year in July if in a no frost area, or when the danger of frost has passed if you are in a frost prone area. Prune to about 200mm the first year, 300mm in the second year, 400mm in the third year, when you should be able to get your first crop. Pluck the first two or three leaves and the bud every time they are 5-8cm above the pruning mark at first then use the plucking mark as a guide. You should let your bushes gain height during the plucking season so that they reach a comfortable working height by the end of the season, around early July in the Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland area.

When your bushes reach maturity, in 5-6 years prune out the ‘crows feet’ every year. Then every 5 years give them a deep prune down to 30-40 cm from the ground. Make clean cuts with your pruning.

PLUCKING

You should be able to pluck your 2-3 leaves and bud by about October and then every 2-3 weeks decreasing to about every week in December – January – February – March – April, then extending to 2-3 weeks by June – July. When plucking pull off and discard any old dark green leaf that protrude above your plucking table. You only need the fresh light green new growth to make tea.

PROCESSING

Having plucked your 2-3 leaves and bud, you are now ready to make tea. When your bushes are mature you should get about 1 kilo or more from your four bushes. Thinly spread your leaf out on a withering table which you can make by stretching a piece of Hessian or such over a frame about 1m square or anything similar just so that air can circulate all around the individual leaves. You will need to leave this to wither for about 17 hours in the shade or indoors.

Your tea is withered when you squeeze a hand full and it stays in a ball. Though, this physical wither is not as important as the chemical wither, which must have about 17 hours to take place. Next, feed your tea through a meat mincer, a food processor is not satisfactory for this. Use a fine screen in the end of your mincer, and feed the tea through twice. The tea leaves need to be broken up under pressure in order to rupture the leaf cells. That is why a mincer is best. Alternatively you could chop it with a knife on a chopping board. Then roll it with a heavy wooden roller.
From here spread your tea on a tray up to 25mm thick and leave for about an hour, when it should be turned and left for another hour. This process is called fermentation. After fermentation you are ready for drying. This is the hardest part for the home tea maker to do.

I use an old fan heater mounted so that the hot air comes out upwards. You must be sure not to cover the air intake when you make a mounting frame, over the outlet on the fan heater and about 5 cm away, on the same frame I have a piece of fine .75mm stainless steel mesh which I bought from an engineering supply store. Place your tea on the mesh when it is hot, turning the tea occasionally until it is very dry 3% moisture. Feel some bought tea to get an idea of what to aim for. It should take about 20 minutes to dry 200 grams of tea, which is what you will end up with from 1 kg of green leaf. If you dry it too quickly you will form a crust on the leaf known as case hardening, which will not allow a proper infusion to take place and thus have a very weak brew. If you are too slow with your drying you will stew your tea and it will taste just like that, stewed.

Whatever system you use for drying, you must remove the moisture from the tea with air or you will cook it not dry it.
Store your tea after cooling in airtight containers, if glass store away from light.
GOOD LUCK