Re: Pawlonia tomentosa

I went to Great Dixter this year, where Christopher Lloyd treats Pawlonia
just this way, cutting it to the ground each year in an area devoted to hot
colored tropical plants. Luscious leaves. I don't know that we could stay
that on top of it's growth where the winters are milder.
Laura



on 1/24/01 1:34 PM, Tony & Moira Ryan at theryans@xtra.co.nz wrote:

> Gay Klok wrote:
> 
>> With regards the Pawlonia, I wholeheartedly agree with you except you
>> didn't say how marvelous the leaves are.
> 
> Gay I have read that the Brits in their huge herbaceous borders
> sometimesmake use of Pawlonia, cutting it to the ground at the end of
> each winter so they take full advantage of the glory of those new
> leaves. Of course such trees never get the chance to flower.
> 
>> I have heard of the Pawlonia  being commercially farmed in Victoria,
>> Australia.  An ever repeating crop apparently.
>> The farmer cuts the tree down when the wood is thick enough,
>> annually,  and it comes back stronger than ever
> 
> Is this for firewood?  Surely wood that has grown so fast can't be much
> good as timber. I would have imagined for that use it would have to
> stand and mature several years  at least
> 
> wish our rain forest trees had the same quality
> 
> Ours too, things like Kauri take a leisurly 500 years or so to really
> reach a decent standard of maturity!
> 
> I am not sure about Rimu, a lovely and very popular timber which is
> still harvested in quantity from the wild. It regrows pretty readily
> from natural seeding, but probably would take something like 1 to 200
> years to be worth harvesting again.
> 
> Moira
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