Re: Which Tree

On 8/7/08 16:34, in article echinosum.2e97807@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"echinosum" <echinosum.2e97807@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 
> Janet Tweedy;802531 Wrote:
>> I have an arbutus in my garden, chalk, flint and clay
>> but def. NOT acid. Done so well it's outgrown it's place at the back of
>> 
>> a border between my flowers and my veg.!
>> Very rarely gets watered
>> 
> Arbutus unedo plainly ought to be very drought resistant given its
> natural habitat in mediterranean lands. Only this April I was walking
> through arbutus forests in Sardinia, where they have a very dry hot
> summer, though they grow only about 3m tall in such conditions.  I saw
> taller ones in damper NW ****tugal.  Though I find mine is inclined to
> wilt in persistent dry conditions - perhaps you have to grow them hard
> to get them to be drought resistent.

We saw them in Cyprus up in the Trodos mountains and they were big -
around
18 to 20' I'd guess.
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