Re: trevesia, Ruth Bancroft and frost

Try any of the New Zealand aralias. They do well here
in SF, bouncing back after our 1990 freeze (25-28F for
many nights). Except Meryta sinclairi.
-Jason

--- paul spracklin <oasisdesigns@btconnect.com> wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Margaret - here is a link to a page that explains
> the different types of frost better than I could.
> 
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/basics_frost.shtml
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Paul Spracklin
> 42 Greenwood Avenue
> South Benfleet
> Essex
> SS7 1LD
> England
> tel +44 (0) 1268 757666
> fax +44 (0) 1268 795646
> website: www.oasisdesigns.co.uk
> discussion forum: www.ukoasis.fsnet.co.uk 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Margaret Moir 
>   To: medit plants 
>   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.
>    
>    
>   Margaret and Peter Moir
>   Olive Hill Farm
>   Margaret River, Western Australia.
>        www.wn.com.au/olivehill
> 


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