On 5/7/08 23:25, in article 6daajpF1lst7U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Bob Hobden"
<bobh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> "Sacha" wrote>>>
>>
>> A friend of ours had one in a French garden in a hamlet outside a town
>> called Chauffailles in the Rhone-Alpes - think I've got the district
>> right.
>> It's pretty damp there and opposite their garden was a big forest of
>> chestnut trees IIRC. The mists were stupendous. They hadan Albizia
there
>> for years but one snowy winter did it in. It wasn't the cold as far as
>> they
>> could tell, it was the considerable fall of snow that then melted into
the
>> Albizia's roots for days and days on end, keeping it not just cold but
>> soaking wet.
>>
> Yes, it's one of those plants that can stand the cold well but not the
cold
> and winter wet together. Whilst it probably wouldn't do down your way
for
> that reason it may here as we are nowhere near as wet as your area*, and
we
> are loam over gravel.
Apparently, Hyams had one in this garden and it died off. I'm sure it
must
have been for that reason, as we know where he planted it - in that very
wide border to the left of the big lawn if you look down the garden from
the
house front. I doubt he could have chosen a wetter spot if he'd worked it
out on both hands for a week.
> Certainly it's noticeable that Kew has planted theirs on slight hillocks
> probably to try to avoid that problem.
>
> * I bet the grass around you is still green, here it's all parched
brown,
> and our lawn has stopped growing.
GREEN!!! It's positively neon. I do not want to hear about people with
dry
weather. Pah! ;-))
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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