Re: Schefflera Schweethearts
- Subject: Re: Schefflera Schweethearts
- From: J* M*
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:01:05 -0700
> One reference to this subject I did find was in a Florida Landscape
> Plants handbook (Watkins & Sheehan) where mention is given over too S.
> actinophylla. There-in it states that this is for warmer parts of Florida
> and requires sun to flower well (counts us in Britland out then) but one
> propagation term interests me: "marcottage", is this what us on the eastern
> side of the Atlantic know as air-layering (or even just layering)?.
Mark,
"Marcottage" is indeed "air-layering, although on this side of the pond it
is perhapps known better by the Anglicised form "marcotting."
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23