Fwd: Re: how to plant Leucadendron
- Subject: Fwd: Re: how to plant Leucadendron
- From: emhoffs e*@ucla.edu
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:50:39 -0800
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Subject: Re: how to plant Leucadendron
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:15:31 +0100
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Hallo I have no personal experience of Proteaceae but I was recently on
holiday in South Africa, near the Cape. In conversation with a nurseryman
there he gave me his opinion that the two essentials were an acid soil and a
soil that was very low in phosphates. Good drainage also. Good luck
Gill Pound
Languedoc
S France
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From: "emhoffs" <emhoffs@ucla.edu>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: how to plant Leucadendron
> My daughter is planting 20 Leucadendron. She has done extensive research
> about how to plant them in her clay soil, however everyone seems to have a
> different answer. Several people have told her to increase drainage by
> planting in decomposed granite (DG) and native soil; others suggest that
> she not amend; while some say to treat the plants like any other and amend
> with pumice and planting mix. She was favoring the DG method until she
was
> told that the DG would turn to cement in a year or two.
>
> Please help. My daugher lives near in Southern California in Highland
Park.
>
> Ellen Hoffs
> Santa Monica, CA
>
