Re: still more yuccas

From Margaret Moir, W. Australia.
Trevor, many thanks for all the info........I found the Tarrington Exotics site......it is www.tarrex.com.au
They do have a great range of Yuccas. Now I need some links so that I can see what they look like and hopefully ID some that I already have! I sent an SOS in a previous message under the Dracaena and Aloe banner. I've at last found a cutting of the gorgeous Aloe plicatilis which looks so ravishing in your Old Fashioned Gardens book, now I see Tarringtons have it, and at a reasonable price too. Obviously I should have popped the question to you years ago, and by now I might have had one of reasonable size.
Lambley no longer send to Western Australia. I sent a begging letter to David some years ago re the variegated yuccas but he had none available at that point........gosh, another yucca pun!
Do you have any input on the Dracaena discussion?
Thanks again,
Margaret.
----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Nottle <trevorn@torrens.tafe.sa.edu.au>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: still more yuccas

> Following on from my last bit about Yuccas I suggest that anyone interested
> in obtaining Yuccas will find sources among specialist plant collectors,
> especially those who deal in cacti and succulents. In Australia we  had
> Attila Kapitany and his Paradeiso nursery but that seems to be in a state
> of stasis lately due to problems with his partners/ family. That leaves
> Rudolf Schwarz at The Cactus Stop between Ballarat and Geelong. There's
> some good stuff there and if you can't call in to buy Rudolf has an
> excellent mail-order service through his Tarrington Exotics business; they
> have a website too and an on-line catalogue that is frequently updated.
> (I'd send it but I can't find it right now.)
>
> Then there's what you can pick up while cruising around the little
> nurseries in the countryside. I saw a lovely Yucca at Ian Huxley's own-root
> old rose in Shicers Gully near Castlemaine in Victoria and managed to
> persuade Ian to dig me one in readiness for the next time I passed through.
> It is one of those varieties with very broad, bluntly pointed dark leaden
> grey leaves. It is stemless, clump forming and very statuesque at about 1.5
> m tall and wide. The leaves are also deeply pleated which adds to their
> attractions.
>
> Finally there are the annual Cactus and Succulent Society shows in most of
> the capital cities and many regional centres too. Here you will find both
> specialist dealers and trading tables - often with a fair slection of
> Yuccas, and often in quite large sizes, especially as stem and trunk cuttings.
>
> regards
>
>
> Trevor Nottle
> Garden Historian, Writer, Lecturer, Consultant
> WALNUT HILL
> 5 Walker Street
> Crafers
> South Australia  5152
> AUSTRALIA
>
> Tel./ Fax. +61 +8 +8339 4210
> e-mail <trevorn@torrens.tafe.sa.edu.au>
>
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