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Re: Pretty Flowers... YES/Banksia coccinea

That is an amazing story, David! Putting those plants, all proteas, in an
unheated greenhouse in a Herefordshire winter and kept dry is quite the
opposite of what they get in their normal winters. But it must be the right
way to grow them. The cold, dry conditions may put them in a state of
suspended animation. The normal English summer is more or less like the
normal Australian winter so perhsaps they felt fine with all that watering!
You know, after Banks and his friends made all those discoveries in
Australia they tried growing many plants outdoors at Kew. Of course, they
nearly all failed after a few winters. But many species survived in cool
houses. The failures under glass were in the steamy, heated ones.

Sorry to hear about Euc. rhodantha. Seed is hard to get now. The hot, humid
weather must have been too much for them. Yes, they really hate humidity in
summer.  Same is true for E. macrocarpa. Leaves can turn black.

Andrew
San Diego, California
awilson@fda.net
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