trevesia, Ruth Bancroft and frost

Hi list
 
Margaret - here is a link to a page that explains the different types of frost better than I could.
 
 
Thanks for all the info on Trevesia palmata, I get the idea that mine (when I get it) will have to spend it's life in a large pot, as I think it will be cut back most if not every year here.  BUT...... interesting about the cussonias, definitley worth a try if nothing else.  I hadn't realised they were quite this resilient.  Has anyone found any other large and interesting arailias to be at all hardy - obscure scheffleras or others.  I can get away with a few pseudopanax here like P. arboreus and even P. laetus so far and it is these large, digitate leaved things that I could get excited about.
 
David, thanks for the link to Joe, I will check this out thoroughly.  I have seen him on some message board sites but have yet to pursue him!  Also the Ruth Bancroft Garden - though I have drooled over this site before.  Whilst on the subject, they mention an aloe - Aloe rubroviolacea - as being hardy to cold (though damp would be interesting) from Yemen.  It isn't in cultivation over here but I am hopefully getting a plant or two this year from someone in CA.  Is this a plant you have grown?  Is it as nice as I've been told?  The man describes the leaves as being every bit as colourful as a Californian sunset when grown hard - sounds gorgeous!
 
regards to all
 
Paul
 
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: o*@wn.com.au
To: m*@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:05 AM
Subject: speaking of cold weather.......

Inspired by this talk of frost and permafrost and impermafrost, can someone form less moderate climes than mine tell me the difference between air-frost and ground-frost? We occasionally get to -3/-5C, when we will have a pleasant coating of frost on the ground, quite exciting. Only in exposed bits though, under trees and such isn't usually effected.
I've always wondered if it is ground or air frost.
Margaret, in warm and very dry SW Australia.
 
 
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