RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum and/or Huntington
- Subject: RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum and/or Huntington
- From: d* f*
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:29:39 -0800 (PST)
Dear Joan,
Since you seem to be able to find anything on the web,
I thought I would ask you if either the LA County
Arboretum, The Huntington Botanic Garden, Quail
Botanic Gardens have searchable data bases on line of
all plants in their collections which can be looked at
by the general public? I have yet to find the
equivalent for the local Strybing, UC Berkeley and UC
Santa Cruz Botanic Gardens. (The one reference I have
of species being grown at Strybing is sadly out of
date, last revised in 1987).
The reason I ask, is I'd like to know if either
Xanthostemon chrysantus-Golden Penda, or The
Proteaceae Buckinghamia celsissima are being grown
down south? Both come from the rainforest areas of
Queensland, Australia, and I recently received fresh
seed of both. I tried doing a google search for each
focusing on those being grown in the USA, and only
turned up one reference for a nursery in Homestead,
Florida. They both look to be beautiful trees that
might also do well in California, but I haven't been
able to turn up any local information on them.
TIA,
David Feix
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