"Nick Maclaren" wrote after
> "Bob Hobden" 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.
>
>
I've got a few I've grown from seed from a friends tree (in SW. France)
and
they have grown well outside all year, I've just planted the first out in
an
Aunts garden in Isleworth. I notice there are now a couple planted out
across the River at Kew too. Around this area I wonder if they would do
well, certainly Acacia dealbata does and flowers well, it's now quite
common
and some are becoming large trees.
As I said, region of the Country, aspect, and position count a lot.
We are only 17 miles W. of London, the warmest part of mainland UK.
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Regards
Bob Hobden
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