"The process
of photosynthesis is like a fine, critical thread that invisibly suspends
all our food and the dining experience before us". Lloyd Godman
2005
St Andrews
Garden, Victoria Australia
Macadamia nut trees
There are 2 Macadamia nut trees - tetraphylla hybrid planted in the winter of 2008
these trees made very good growth through the spring but suffered some leaf burn in the very hot weather of Feb 2009 - ( 47 degrees)
St Andrews
Garden, Victoria Australia
there are two Macadamia nut trees in the St Andrews Orchard - Planted in the winter of 2005
Sept 2009
Establishing the tree is one thing, protecting it against wildlife is quite another - the tree is surrounded by wire netting supported by star pickets to stop attack from wallabies who eat the leaves. The netting runs to the ground to stop rabbits who might ring bark the tree.
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