RE: Leaf-Cutter Bees, Nectar-Feeding Birds, Idiot Cumbrian Gardeners

Tim it wouldn't suprise me at all if your gum survived.
I had a small (2 foot) red flowered mallee (E. erythronema)
that was pulled out of the ground by a lout on a scramble bike
from the street verge.  It must have lay there two maybe three days 
before I found it about 20 m from where I had planted it a month earlier.

I whacked it back in and now its 10 meters tall!
My bet is it will sprout back. Just be watch it dosen't come back
with to many shoots, carefull selective removal would be required then
to the best two or three.  Mine had three and it looks superb as a multiple
trunked specimen, much more interesting than the single it had originally.

rod
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> ----------
> From: 	tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Reply To: 	tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, 30 December 1998 3:43 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Leaf-Cutter Bees, Nectar-Feeding Birds, Idiot Cumbrian
> Gardeners
> 
> As far as the fertilization of ginger lilies is concerned:
> 
> The general message seems to be  thatI'm not living/gardening in a
> warm enough spot. Funny, I seem to have heard that before...
> 
> Though I can't claim any nectar-feeding birds in Cumbria, I CAN claim
> lots of leaf-cutter bees. The old stone walls around this garden are
> home to 100s of'em. So far, though, their preferred target seems to be
> the foliage of old-fashioned roses - don't ask me why - but maybe,
> sooner or later (probably later), there'll be a hot enough summer to
> tempt'em to switch their attentions to my ginger lilies, for
> nectarous haute cuisine if not for home-building materials - or
> whatever it may be that they use their neatly half-moon-shaped
> leaf-segments FOR. (I suppose for hole-in-the-wall-lining? but I don't
> really know. Dave? Are you equally expert on the ways of leaf-cutters
> as on those of meat-eating parrots?)
> 
> Meanwhile I'll try to adopt Moira's moral - better a non-fertilized
> ginger-lily than a rampant weed.
> 
> First lot of gales - during which neighbour's conservatory roof
> disappeared, last seen heading towards Scotland at a rate of knots -
> was followed by several inches of snow in a couple of hours' downpour
> yesterday morning (I was out walking dogs on neighbouring hills and
> only just got back to car in time to make it down forestry tracks to
> metalled road) but (so far) no sign of today's forecast winds of 80+
> mph. (Later, before sending: I take that back. They're just arriving.
> With torrents of rain, rather than snow.) Despite all, no real cold,
> still, so plants, though battered, are not, yet, actually dead.
> 
> Main casualty so far has been a sweet young replacement Eucalyptus
> cordata, coming on nicely to take the place of a good-sized specimen
> killed by cold in the winter of 95-96. This one wasn't killed by cold
> but by a keeled-over Azara dentata which squashed it as it fell. I've
> left in the stump in the hope that it'll shoot from the base but on
> such a young plant (only 4' tall) is it likely? Any gum-tree guru care
> to comment? Even if this individual has to be put to rest, I shall
> have the obligatory third try next year. It's too handsome a plant to
> give up on easily. Well, that's my opinion - though of course in
> regions where ginger-lilies get fertilized it's probably, yep, yet
> another rampant and noxious weed. Ha!
> Tim Longville
>
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