Cordylines etc.
- Subject: Cordylines etc.
- From: v* d*
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:35:26 +0100
Good to hear from you Moira and glad that at last you are getting some
decent weather. I heard from Peter Richardson in Bay of Plenty area
(writing on the UK Oasis message board) that Dunedin had suffered severe low
temps. and he was wondering how the tree ferns growing on the high places
surrounding the city, were faring. Here the tree ferns (excepting the virile
Dicksonia antartica) are slow to start. C. medullaris is most reluctant to
stretch those fronds. No real, sustained warmth here yet.
As for the Cordylines, I do have quite a few and most are growing extremely
well. The C. indivisa is looking superb with a huge head of leaves and the
beginnings of a trunk. I also have a strange Cordy, grown from seed which
was meant to be 'sticta' but patently is not. It must be some sort of cross
with C. banksii. I'll send you a picture to see what you think. The true C.
banksii does not like cold winds blowing through it, nor being out in the
sun (Ha! if only..!) Which reminds me to relocate the poor creature as soon
as possible.
Another I have managed to get and one which I asked you about some time ago,
is C. baueri. At present it looks just like C. australis... but it's young.
An adult example exists in Dr. Davis Robinson's, (Sth. hemisphere plants)
garden in Howth, Co. Dublin. A good, broad leafed, green Cordyline,
branched and with pink leaf petioles, nice.
We were having a discussion about Ratas today, lots of lovely images
recollected.
By for now,
Val
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