Re: Schefflera Schweethearts
- Subject: Re: Schefflera Schweethearts
- From: T* L*
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:45:35 +0100
Mark - Should you known you lot down in Cornwall would have got there
before me...!
Interesting info., though: thanks - and I'll keep my eyes peeled in
local garden centres to see if the indoor Schefflera turns up, and if
it does will certainly try adding it to the Longville mini-jungle.
(Isn't that indoor Schefflera, as Hugo suggested, S. arboricola? Or is
there more than one spp sold as an indoor plant in the UK?)
Not only was your cultural info. interesting but so was the info about
the non-appearance of any spp in Cornish records in the 30s - which
would seem to tend to support Bleddyn Wynne-Jones's notion that,
because the Edwardian and inter-war collectors in those regions were
mostly after rhodos and, a long way second, lilies, there are still
many exciting possibilities to be tried in UK (and, as you suggest,
perhaps in N. Calif.) gardens.
The problem for the more chronologically challenged among us, though,
is hanging on long enough for folks like Bleddyn and Dan Hinckley to
collect them, grow them on and then offer them for sale!
Cheers -
Tim
Tim Longville
