Ever since we were taken to the Australian Arid Lands Botanical Gardens in Port Augusta, South Australia, and saw a young Eucalyptus lansdowneana in flower, I became a big fan of its fine leaves, its fine branches, its smooth fine trunk, and its very pretty reddish pink flowers. So, obviously I wanted to try to grown my own. And as soon as I could, I planted one in the Driveway Triangle, in a spot where I thought it might be able to withstand the dry, and the heat, and where it was on a slight rise, thus providing the excellent drainage it might require. This one was planted sometime in 2017, not so long after we moved here in November 2016.
Here it is on the driveway, behind the E. stowardii
The next photos show this first planted E lansdowneana while it was in flower, in December 2021. The flowers came out in stages, with buds still on the tree.
The second E. lansdowneana was planted in April 2018, in what I call “The Stump Circle“, which is also part of the “North Triangle”. It did quite well there and flowered happily after only 2 years in the ground. This photo shows it in bud, the year after it first flowered.
