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The pines loosing its pines 12-May-2008 At 5:42:46 PM howzithanging?

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i can afford to be general because there are a huge amount of trees that will grow at araps, there have been many already listed on this post
no decent percentage of trees will survive without "babying" no matter what you plant,

sand and caly are very different types of soil. as a matter of fact clay soils tend to be some of the most fertile in australia,

from a profesionals opinion i would say the one of the biggest problems apart from the obvious lack of water (lets pretend we can overcome that) would be cultivating the exsisting soil around the camp, burried rocks, compacted soil, masses of gigantic root systems from the pines... it would be extreemly difficullt to grow anything there that won't be stunted dramatically by the soil condition... it would be an expensive operation that i am sure parks victoria would not be willing to foot the bill

as for some suggestions of what i think could grow genetically speaking
casurinas
allocasurinas
grevillias
eucalypts
melalucas
acacias
angophras

lets bear in mind, even if drought tollerent species are chosen
NO TREE IS DROUGHT TOLLERANT WHEN IT IS A SEEDLING
NO TREE IS DROUGHT TOLLERANT UNTILL ESTABLISHED
MOST TREES WILL TAKE YEARS TO ESTABLISH

WATER
WATER
WATER
WATER
WATER
WATER is the issue