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Re: Arboricides & Sympathisers



Tim Longville wrote:

> Grateful to Nick, Mach and Charles for their suggestions. I like the
> thought of the sneaky underbark herbicide - has the right sadistic
> touch. Alas, I can't follow Charles' suggestion and also torture the
> brute by slow surgical reduction: keen-eyed neighbours watch over it
> like hawks and would grass on me if so much as its least twig went
> awol. What's more, Bob has now made me very nervous of the whole
> undertaking and I shall be suspecting plain-clothes 'tecs lurking
> behind every bush if and when I finally summon the courage to Do The
> Deed.
>
> Thanks finally to Moira for her sympathy. Incidentally, Moira, are
> sycamores in NZ the sycamores of the UK or the sycamores of the US or
> some Southern Hemisphere sycamore all of your own?!
>
> While I'm posting: does anyone in the group grow chasmanthes? and if
> so what would be their notion of their hardiness levels and cultural
> requirements (in the ground and/or in pots)? I'm growing a couple of
> spp from SIGNA seed, having, in my usual way, leapt before I looked -
> so having leapt I'm now looking at a couple of pots of v.healthy
> seedlings about which I suddenly realise I know absolutely zilch.
>
> Tim from Cumbria UK, the little county with a big climate: I travelled
> back a couple of days ago  from a sun-bathing level of heat-wave by
> the coast of southern Cumbria, through rain, hail, thunder, lightning,
> a brief but complete white-out blizzard at the highest point going
> over the fells, and down to our own far northwest coastal strip where
> it was (as it still is) bright and sunny but fresh and cool - all of
> that on a single day in a journey of 70 miles, max.
> Tim Longville

  I have  a Chasmanthe that is growing in a pot in my greenhouse. I am in
PA, zone 6.  It goes dormant (is doing this now) and comes up again later
in the year but I can't get it to bloom.  Any suggestions as to
fertilizer, temperature, etc? Thanks in advance, Judy Showers,
http://wwww.epix.net/~jshowers
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