Re: Grevillea lanigera as hedge

Hello Joe,

The Grevillea lanigera was described as 5 feet by 5
feet at the nursery.  My thought was that this would
be easy to keep at maybe 3 feet wide and 4 feet tall.
The plants in the 5-gallon cans were already 18 inches
high so my assumption was that it was NOT
extraordinarily slow.  I guess we may see.


I seem to remember reading somewhere, sometime - sorry to be so vague! - that G.lanigera is a pretty variable plant, & I think that mine is, if not technically prostrate, then something that comes pretty close to it. Whatever, it proved gratifyingly hardy last winter, although I've rather overlooked mine until the last week or so due to my still small plant (just over a foot tall) of G.victoriae flowering this autumn for the first time.

By the way, are you one of the 18.5% of the Welsh
people who actually speak Welsh (garddwr = gardener).
I have some Welsh royalty in my genes
.

Yup - although true figures are hard to come by since only those living in Wales itself are counted - a fairly extensive survey a couple of years ago suggested that absolute numbers (as opposed to percentages) are almost as high in England as here. Not to mention other places, such as the USA - and, wait for it, you're going to *love* this: at the height of the Gulf War, what did the BBC manage to track down in South Wales? - a Welsh-speaking Iraqi. Beat that!

Einion,
Rhyl,
Wales.
where it's currently down to 4C, but milder weather promisedf for the rest of the week.

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