Re: Which Tree

In article <6d9hvoF1gjo1U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Bob Hobden" <bobh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
|> 
|> So it's well drained, if it's also sunny how about Albizia julibrissin,
the 
|> Silk Tree. Can take the cold to a point, -12°C in a friends garden, but
not 
|> cold with wet roots hence my comment about well drained. Similar but 
|> slightly bigger eventually is Acacia dealbata what we call Mimosa 
|> (N.Americans call the other one Mimosa)

Summers are too bloody cold for the former - I have one, but it isn't
growing, as the new wood fails to ripen enough to come through the
winter.  Acacia dealbata isn't much easier in most parts.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.