Growing a Living Fossil

Cultivating a species that everyone thought was extinct

Today ’s photo come from Claudia Tregoning in Springfield , South Australia .

This is my Wollemi pine , now 2.4 m tall . The Wollemi pine(Wollemia nobilis)is the botanic world ’s find of the hundred . This evergreen coinage is 200 million age old , but was thought to be extinct until it was found , unintentionally , on 10 September 10 1994 by David Noble whilst bushwalking in Australia ’s Wollemi National Park , 200 km northerly of Sydney . This species is named after him , and its emplacement in Australia ’s Blue Mountains .

Having illustrated many plants and being interested in anything new , I expect a Wollemi of my own . Then , more than 15 years ago , I was one of the golden few to first to purchase this rare industrial plant at my local garden center , complete with substantiation security of genuineness . It was then only about 15 cm tall . The Wollemi Organization is elevate funds to conserve this special piece of vegetation . By selling them and having them in different sites or gardens around Australia — with exposure to many environmental condition — the Wollemi Organization hopes that this will guarantee that the specie is protect from extinction .

The Wollemi pine tree ask little to look after . It likes rainwater when dry , but it needs shelter by some dappled shade , and not any full Dominicus . The conditions in South Australia can be erratic — very raging one daylight and cold the next — and this plant does not show any stress or variety .

There are only about 100 Wollemi pine known in the natural state , although I have translate that a few more have now been locate at the Wollemi National Park , 200 km north of Sydney , in inhospitable terrain . This would be the reason this lovely evergreen is still in existence today . It was await rediscovery and never really go away over its 200 million years .

Claudia is an illustrator , and she sent in this beautiful lottery of her Wollemi pine .

In Claudia ’s garden , the lush growth cater the light shade the Wollemi pine needs .

Clivia miniatais familiar as a houseplant for those of us in stale clime , but in home that do n’t frost , it can be grown out of doors as a garden perennial .

One last sight of Claudia ’s garden .

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