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I decided to order my murraya online. The alternatives were to buy 6 decent-sized shrubs for about $20
each, or a set of 8 seedlings for $30 total. I bought the seedlings from a mail-order nursery on eBay and they arrived promptly, well-wrapped and looking happy.
Actually I reckon they're not seedlings but rooted cuttings, by the looks of it. Which makes me wonder if I shouldn't have tried to take cuttings myself! But oh well, no real harm done. I just hope they adjust to Melbourne's winter, they were grown up in Queensland and it's been a bit nippy lately. Not freezing but lows around 8 or 9 some nights.
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In fact I was concerned enough I kept them inside their first night. But this weekend they went in to their new homes in the back garden bed. They're so small there's no point taking a photo down the whole line, you wouldn't be able to see them! The soil I've infilled with is incredibly moisture-retaining which is great because the old soil below it is very sandy and poor. I just hope it's not too boggy to be honest. But so far they're doing fine, they haven't dropped dead yet!
It'll be a few years until they're a decent size, that's what you get when you save money and buy seedlings. But in time they should be filling the back porch with the scent of orange blossom!
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