Re: Flora of New Zealand
Bob Kirk wrote:
> BK---
>
> would settle for being able to grow a few South Island
> celmisias and aciphyllas, is that asking too much?
Bob
So would I. I have seen them in a garden at Tekapo where the Celmisias
were the size of a good-sized cabbage, but in my garden in central NZ
with its piddling winters they just turn black and disappear. I have had
a little more luck with one or two cultivars said to have been specially
bred for lowland conditions. They actually survived the first winter and
came back, but then just gradually faded away.
A few Aciphyllas do grow wild in this area (mostly on sea cliffs) but
these are some of the larger and tougher ones which do little for me.
The rare alpine miniatures, alas, simply rot in my garden when the damp
mild winter weather strikes them, even in an artificial scree.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
