Re: Pittosporum phyllyaeroides
Hi, David- I really enjoy your posts. I'm fairly sure that I got my
one
gallon P.p. from Henderson's Experimental Gardens in Clovis, CA. This
was my source for japanese maples, dwarf nandinas, etc. for
twenty-five years. The previous owner was Don Kleim and Mary W. and I
bought his whole booth at Nor Cal in 1983, among which was a 5-gallon
P.p. which we used in Livermore and which is now huge and 5-1's. I
planted mine just below my driveway on Vassar and I guess it's reached
5' x 4' in all these years.
The best I've ever seen is in the main parking lot at the LACA. It's a
20' tree there. They are heat and cold tolerant and exceedingly
drought
tolerant.
I can't smell much from their blossoms vs. that weedly P.undulatum BUT
the jelly beans started forming within 5 years of planting and they are
great fun!
MDB
"America's Garden Wizard"
The quote's from the UK Examiner after two lectures I gave last year at
RHS. 15 years ago I was called "the man who invented opera" by Wes
Blomster in the Boulder, Camera and some one suggested I change my
letter head to: Michael Barclay, D.Lett. "The man who invented opera"
I didn't but am seriously thinking of a second web site for America's
serious gardeners....medit-planters or NY roof gardeners.
david feix wrote:
> Michael,
> I was wondering where you get your Pittosporum
> phyllyaeroides from, I didn't think it was available
> in the trade these days...
>
> --- Michael Barclay <operatic@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > David is quite right in all he has to say in his
> > post of wind and
> > Eucalyptus.
> > However the worst culprit in Berkeley/Oakland is my
> > beloved Acacia
> > stenophylla. Marcia Donahue suffered severe wind
> > damage in the flats
> > of
> > So. Berkeley some years ago including her A.
> > stenophylla literally blown
> >
> > off its trunk a bit above groundlevel.
> >
> > In a much later wind storm I found my A.s. 150 yards
> > away, Though
> > guyed and planted quite small it never developed a
> > secure root system
> > and the tree was literally blown out of the ground.
> >
> > It's really too bad for I love this tree.
> > Eucalyptus nicholii is
> > notorious
> > for wind damage losing small and large branches.
> > I've started using
> > Pittosporum phillyraeoides in place of the acacia
> > and several long
> > willowy
> > Eucs. It's slow coastally but roots like a tiger
> > and I adore the
> > yellow jelly
> > beans which are its fruit.
> >
> > Michael Barclay
> > AGW
> > operatic@earthlink.net
> >
>
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