Property News · April 14, 2019

For a piece of Jurassic Park in your lifetime…


Until 1994, amazing Wollemi pines were presumed long extinct. Now you can grow one for yourselfI know gardening is supposed to be about patience, but some plants can test even the most resolute of characters. Almost 20 years ago I bought myself a little monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), having had a fascination with them since I was a child. Dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, it is thought their spiky green leaves evolved to defend against Brachiosaurus attacks. Seeing great forests of them as a teenager in the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, I was desperate to capture a small piece of this primordial landscape in my family’s tiny suburban semi. Flash forward two decades, and I am still waiting. The damn thing is barely 1m tall and is pretty much the same width it was when I first bought it, despite generous lashings of water and liquid feed every summer. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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