Pittosporum rhombifolium
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Pittosporum rhombifolium
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:27:19 GMT
Moira: Many thanks for the info. By sheer luck I seem to have put my
plant in just about the right place (well, at least the best place
I've got on offer; as to whether it's the right place, only time will
tell): moist soil but sunny and as warm as we're ever likely to get
(not very). Your joke about poor old P.r. looking sick because it's
wondering when summer is going to begin is probably more than a joke
and for more than just this one plant. I suspect that a lot of UK
winter deaths with supposedly Z8-9-10 plants from Oz and S. Africa,
particularly, are due, not to winter cold or even to winter damp - at
least, not to those things in themselves - but to the lack of real
maturing heat over sustained periods in the summer before. We can play
all sorts of con tricks on plants to convince them that they're not
where they are but short of wiring up the whole garden and blasting
them with artificial heat there isn't much I can do to convince plants
that they're getting three months of 30+C when what they're getting is
(today) sun but cold wind and temps barely at 20C or (tomorrow)
according to the forecast, torrential rain, floods and temps down into
the teens. I've not surprised so many of these sad exiled plants turn
up their toes in this climate. I don't feel too chipper myself!
Tim Longville
