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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.
|> >
|> 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.
I have grown several from seed, and bought another. They all grew well
in the first year (or when coddled), but none thrived outside. More
im****tantly, Bean describes the same effect as normal. Apparently,
it can take a lot colder than -12 Celsius if the wood is well ripened.
Acacia dealbata is easier in sheltered places, because it doesn't
need to ripen its wood. But it is very sensitive to a mixture of
even mild frost and wet, like most plants of that type. That did for
my A. retinoides, and a dealbata before it.
|> 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.
Yes, but your summers are no warmer than mine - less so, if anything.
That is im****tant for the Albizia. Let's see how they go in a few
years; mine is a long way off being dead - it just doesn't do more
than rebuild itself each summer (and is only 1-2' high).
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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