Re: Pittosporums
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Pittosporums
- From: G* B*
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 09:47:07 +0200
>Interested in Jason and Moira's postings on pittosporums. Agree
>entirely about the desirability of P. eugenioides. It flourishes here
>in coastal North Cumbria, UK, and visitors who see it can be relied on
>to enter a state of overheated what's-that-ing. Given the light
>yellow-green of the leaves of the type, it's certainly difficult to
>see what advantage a variegated form could offer.
>
>Are there, I wonder, other garden-worthy pittosporums which might be
>worth trying?? - and which might manage my conditions...
>
>
>Tim Longville
Hi Tim. - The Pittosporums used to be big here, then a phytophora specific
to them was introduced & they rapidly fell out of favour. Things seem to
have righted themselves now though & they're coming around on a cycle of
fashionability again. Pittosporum crassifolium is a real must for dry Med.
gardens. I also have a lot of success with the varieties of P. tenuifolium.
They'd suit you well & while I wouldn't label them as fully drought hardy
they are marginal. A couple I have established along my fence line would get
by on a three weekly drip watering now. Moira could probably best fill you
in on the most desirable varieties - which I'm sure I've never even heard of
here - but all the ones I know are lovely rounded & gracious shrubs. Very
desirable.
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.
