Thanks for Info

David: Asterotrichion doesn't even appear in the Launceston Field
Naturalists Club guide to Tasmanian plants so I guess it is
gen-u-winely ob-skewer. I didn't even know which family it belonged to
and had assumed, from the Aster-, that it would probably be another
dern-white-daisy, not a million miles away from an Olearia: so am
pleasantly surprised to be facing the prospect of mallow flowers - and
scented, too. Interesting to see if in the northern hemisphere it
flowers in winter - or switches to summer. So far I've worked on the
standard best-bet-for-a-northern-gardener and given it max drainage
and max sun, which by pure chance sounds as tho' it probably chimes
quite closely with its natural habitat. At least it seems to have kept
it happy up to now. If you fancy a crack at it, let me know - plenty
of seedlings here.

Trevor: Peter Valder's only a name to me but I'll certainly give
Garden Plants of China a go - very much my sort of subject... 

Mention of China reminds me to ask, not that it has anything to do
with the Med in even the loosest sense but, heck, it's a time for
goodwill to all so maybe I can get away with it: anyone on the list
grow Chinese foxgloves, Rehmannia spp? Anyone know either (a) R.
henryi, discovered by A. Henry almost a hundred years ago but never,
apparently, in cultivation in the UK (at least, kind botanists at
Wisley, who've looked on my behalf, can find no trace of it), (b) any
other Rehmannia apart from elata/angulata and glutinosa? They like me
(so far) and I like them and I'm keen to find (out) more..

Balmiest of mid-winter days here: good omen for the gardening new
year...?


Tim Longville
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