RE: Tipped Fremontodendron update


--- Gayle Kalman <leahdragonfly@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Dear Doobieous,
> 
> When I worked for the parks in the hills here (east
> bay, San Francisco Bay
> Area), we had an unfortunate gardener on our crew
> who hated
> Fremontodendrons. We had many mature specimens on
> our properties that he
> took a chain saw to when he could (he hated the skin
> irritating qualities
> of the stems). They would almost immediately sprout
> from around the main
> stems and from surrounding roots. Fire adaptation I
> presume.

They definitely are plants you want to be cautious
around, as the little trichomes are definitely
irritating (i've experienced it as I think anyone who
grows these does). But I find them well worth it, they
are pretty foliage, flower, and structurally (such
interesting branch angles).

You're probably right. I suppose I could renew these
plants when the trunks get old and start to decline by
cutting them back, but I think they're a few years
away from that. 

Has anyone tried the low growing prostate forms of
these? A nursery I visit every so often sells them and
they actually asked me if I wanted the low forms or
not (at the time no, because I was adding structure).
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