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Re: edible street trees
Katherine Waser wrote:
> Pomegranates are absolutely beautiful plants, I think. (snip)
>
> I've also seen pomegranates growing quite happily in conjunction with
> oleanders here in Tucson and also in Southern California, which I think is > interesting because I've heard/read more than once that oleanders are > allelopathic and you can't grow other things in close proximity to them.
Katherine
I wonder where this idea arose from. I cn't find any mention in my
books. Oleanders are quite common around my area and I have seen them
growing in company with all sorts of other plants, which have always
looked perfectly happy. In one garden where I used to work, I planted a
bush marguerite on one side of an established oleander bush and a
hydrangea on the other and both grew entirely normally.
Perhaps, like some other species they become allelopathic only when dead
and it is their rotting roots which cause problems.
They are, of course very poisonous plants and we are always warned here
not to burn the wood, which can give off dangerous fumes. I seem to
remember some young teenagers a few years ago trying to get high on
inhaling the fumes and I believe they actually managed to kill
themselves, so perhaps the account has become confused and the danger is
more to people than to other plants.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
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