California Gardening: CA friends...I AM SO SAD!!!!!, 1 by surfcity

surfcity wrote:
I have a free 5-gallon eucalyptus nicholii in a nursery pot you can have if you want to give it a good home. (You'd have to come and get it--I'm in Orange County. Maybe we could meet somewhere in the middle, say, around Pendleton.) I bought it (I have 3 others in the ground) thinking I had a place for it, but it turns out I don't. It's very healthy. I love these trees.

Some people say they can't garden under eucs, but I don't have a problem.

I also have several lyonothamnus (in the ground--not just sitting around, unfortunately). A lovely evergreen native tree. Only problem is they're hard to find any bigger than 3 or 4 feet tall.

I also like callistemon viminalis (weeping bottlebrush), also evergreen, but it's very messy. Although the hummers don't mind the messiness, my (suburban) neighbors are ready to drop a bomb on it. In a more rural setting, it'd probably be a great tree.

I'm going to try an include a picture of one of my three euc nicholiis. I've never done this before, so I don't know if it'll work. If this works, it has an open weeping habit and reaches to the top of the peak of the house. Roots aren't a problem. Very pretty.