Re: Eucalyptus Trees: Good or Bad?
david feix wrote:
>
> I was wondering how other landscape designers in
> warmer parts of the world/other mediterannean climates
> felt about the merits/problems with Eucalyptus trees.
david
For the last couple of weeks we have been enjoying a red-flowered gum
(Probably E. ficifolia) growing in the front of a garden we frequently
drive past. The display has been very good indeed, quite as brilliant as
our native Pohutukawa, and the tree is a manageable size (at least at
present)..
One good point about gum flowers which we specially appreciate locally,
is that they provide good nectar for birds, as like Austraila we have
several avian species which are nectar-feeders.
A retreat house where we used to stay in days gone by had an enormous
gum growing right up the side of two-story accomodation block and at the
right time of year one might lean out the bedroom windows and see Tuis
disporting themselves among the branches while sipping from the flowers.
Tuis are favourites with everybody being cheerful extroverts with a
wonderful repetoire of calls and imitations.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
