Re: Chamelaucium uncinatum
- Subject: Re: Chamelaucium uncinatum
- From: G* B*
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:10:04 +0200
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>Don't know if this is the plant you are trying to id but I have it growing
in
>my garden, 2 colors. It comes in the rose, a lighter shade of same and a
>white. The flowers are no more than 1/2" across, small groups of them. It
>is used freely by florists. The shrub gets 4'tall and wider in 2 years.
I
>am trying to propagate from cuttings as everyone wants it and I have not
seen
>it for sale at any nurseries.
Late summer cuttings in sharp sand with light misting do reasonably well for
me.
Can you advise how you grow yours ? I've lost them in the past & feel the
summer watering factor may be the cause again. They were used as indigenous
median strip plantings in the motorways around Perth & made a lovely show.
Does anyone have any experience growing them in acid soils ? The literature
says alkaline lovers but I don't know where the limits are.
Regards
Glenn Breayley. Ragnarok & Valhalla Research.
POBox 26158, Hout Bay, 7872, Capetown, South Africa
Ph/Fax SA 021 7904253 E-mail valhalla@iafrica.com
Wholesale nurseryman & Tillandsia specialist wholesale & retail grower.
