Test Plot: One year in landcare: A Practice Guide / Un Ano en el Cuidado de la Tierra: Una Guia de Practicas tangelo String of Pearls

String of Pearls

Family Name Proteaceae Species Name Hakea scoparia Common Name Kangaroo Bush Native to Australia Plant Type Shrub Height x Width 5'-15' x 5'-8' Growth Habit Upright/Bushy Growth Rate Fast Sun Exposure Full Sun - Part Shade Water Requirement Low Soil Type Well- Draining Flower Color Cream/white/pink Flowering Months Fall/Winter/Spring Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen Fragrant Lightly scented Cold Hardy to 20-25 degrees Attracts pollinators Bees

A prostrating fragrant evergreen shrub that grows up to two feet tall by eight feet wide

Spineshrub

The milky sap that is produced when the plant is cut is poisonous

Test Plot: One year in landcare: A Practice Guide / Un Ano en el Cuidado de la Tierra: Una Guia de Practicas tangelo String of PearlsTest Plot: One year in landcare: A Practice Guide This zine outlines a series of landcare practices. Our hope is to provide inspiration for the different ways that we engage in acts of care for the land. The practices are time based and will help you pay closer attention to the interconnectedness of place, culture, plants and rituals. This is not meant to be a plant maintenance guide, per se, rather these practices seek to broaden the ways we connect