RE: Eucalyptus polyanthemos

This species will definitely grow taller than 30 to 40
feet tall, and if you don't want this size, it is the
wrong tree in the wrong place.  I might suggest that
you use one of the smaller growing Eucalyptus with
interesting silvery foliage.  I don't have my Sunset
Western Garden book handy, and am having a brain
freeze, but the one they use for cut foliage, E.
pulverulenta(?) is more likely to stay less than 30
feet tall, but needs to be pruned back occasionally to
keep the more interesting juvenile foliage.

E. polyanthemos would require too much regular pruning
to keep it at this size...

--- Reid Family <pkssreid@comcast.net> wrote:

> I know people do prune it for height control,
> sometimes badly.  I should
> take great care just how I do it to maintain a
> strong structure while
> getting the dwarfed effect you want.  If you have a
> good book on
> arboriculture or one with a chapter on it, follow
> the guidelines and you
> can probably maintain your view, only start with
> good branch/trunk
> choices from the first year in the ground.
> Good luck!
> Karrie Reid
> Folsom Foothill Gardener
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of
> mtnstar@ocsnet.net
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:06 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Eucalyptus polyanthemos
>  
> Hello all,
> 
> I just purchased two Eucalyptus polyanthemos, silver
> dollar gum, and I
> have conflicting reports on just how tall it
> eventually gets.  One says
> 30 to 40 feet and another says 60 feet - does anyone
> have experience
> growing this tree?  I don't want to block my view of
> the mountain tops.
> Do any of you know if this tree will take to pruning
> on the top - I
> would like to use the foliage in floral arrangements
> - and I thought I
> might be able to keep it in bounds this way?  Thank
> you.
> 
> Linda Starr
> Springville Lavender Gardens
> Zone 9 California, USA
> 
> 
> 


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