Re: Eucs as houseplants?

Joe Seals wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> Some years ago, it was quite popular in Englad as well
> as most of temperate Europe to grow several species of
> the "Silver dollar" (and other silver-when-immature
> species) eucalyptus as house plants.
> 
> That included Ee. cinerea, kruseana, perriana,
> polyanthemos, preissiana, and pulverulenta.  Most of
> them were sold simply as "Silver Dollar" or such and
> were not identified to species.
> 
> They were nice in that they tolerated quite a bit of
> pruning (needed in homes with ceilings that were only
> 10 feet high or so).  In fact, they actually thrived
> on such frequent and hard pruning and looked better
> for it, with compact growth and LOTS of silvery
> immature foliage.

I once saw a similar gum here persuaded to keep its immature foliage
outdoors by regular coppicing.

And though I haven't seem Eucalypts grown as indoor plants here, there
was a fashion in NZ at one time for growing seedlings of Grevillea
robusta in pots to provide nice feathery background foliage. These were
apparently treated as throw-away plants and discarded after a couple of
years or so. They now seem to have fallen out of favour.

Incidently, though this Grevillea is grown in gardens in the warmer
parts of the district,it never looks really happy, because it
definitely  isn't as warm as it likes.

The poor spindly local specimens compare badly with the soaring forty or
fifty footers of our African farm and I always feel a bit sorry for
them..

Moira

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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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