Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Looking for trees that look tropical or prehistoric zone6, 1 by growin

growin wrote:
M. ashei blooms when much younger and has the large leaves so might as well go for that instead of M. macrophylla. With the Trachycarpus, best to buy a large quantity of seed from a cold source and plant out. Direct seed, some winter protection and the hardy ones will make it.

Back to the Araucaria - it is one of the few conifers that can be chopped to the ground and regrow. If there's a bad winter that fries the top, don't give up on the roots/stem.

Some great suggestions/discussion.

to add...Yucca glauca, Y. whipplei, Wingnuts (Pterocarya sp.), poncirus trifoliata, Aralia elata, Eucommia ulmoides