Specialty Gardening: By special request., 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Hi Donna, Iknow the feeling of too many folders! I have been trying to sort one a day out, deleting unnecessary pics, cropping where I think I can again, then moving to named folders. Then I need to go through them and see if I can get rid of excesses, I am doing well, some I have deleted up to 65 from, one had too many to give a number! Have you managed to find your missing pics? Do you find time to lay down on your resting spot? I think that is a scanned pic Suzy.

The tree trunks in that pic are the Eucalyptus which was blown over in strong winds, I think it was two similar trees rather than a double trunked one. E gunnii is quit ehardy, but there are two which are extremely hardy. Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp niphophila is the second hardiest and should tolerate your temps, I have that in a pot and it will replace the other one. It's much slower growing so the roots should be able to keep up with the top. They should normally be planted when very young so the roots can get established, which I did with the E gunnii. The hardiest is E. debeuzevillei which isn't on the site below fro some reason, called the Jounama Snow Gum, grows at 5,750ft in the Australian Capital Territory, growth is moderate meaning 1-1.5 metres a year maximum less than 20 metres.

Edited to note E debeuzevillei is also a spp of E pauciflora.

http://www.angelfire.com/bc/eucalyptus/niphophila.html

http://www.angelfire.com/bc/eucalyptus/eucindex.html

Sold here

http://www.worldplants.com/eucalyptus.htm

This is my E niphophila, taken a couple of weeks ago, I got it a few years ago as a seedling and it has been fairly slow. I didn't know where to put it, no wI have a place!


This message was edited Feb 8, 2007 2:44 PM