Re: tradescantia (again!)
Liz Runciman wrote:
>
> Moira I was interested in your experience with this pest and
> the blowtorch. I dug some up recently and put the plants on
> some newspaper in the garden meaning to put them out in the
> rubbish. Things being what they are in my garden I didn't get
> round to it and we had 10 days of searing heat. In Adelaide
> that means 38C+ up to 40C. The wretched things still look as
> fresh and green as if they have just been dug up. Other really
> hardy Med. plants like Echium have almost given up the ghost.
>
Liz
I have no difficulty at all believing this horror story!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
