Thursday, January 10, 2008

Flowers doing well despite the weather.

South East Queensland has had less than optimum weather for Gerberas lately. Little sun, lots of overcast days and good rains. However, after initially having a few days of "go slow" there is a flourish of activity and buds and flowers are everywhere.

The children will be able to sell flowers from out the front of their house and help pay for their ticket to Adelaide.

Yesterday I spent a lot of time "deleafing" - it is amazing how much foliage has grown. The plants are healthy that's for sure, which requires us to do the trimming. We call it "hair cutting" as we use large hedge clippers to cut the overhanging foliage down each side of the rows of plants. It is a big job - and in the heat and humidity.

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