Re: Protea 'Pink Ice'
- Subject: Re: Protea 'Pink Ice'
- From: david feix d*@yahoo.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:15:11 -0800 (PST)
This is also a fairly fast grower, with year round
water it can grow 18 inches or more a year, in sand
without summer water, it will be quite a bit slower.
Planting out this late, it will need some irrigation
this year to establish. I've had this already blooming
at 2 years, so it may bloom next spring for you. Be
aware that they can get quite large, one I planted 7
years ago in Berkeley clay soil without summer water
is now about 15 feet tall and at least 8 foot across,
and is in bloom nearly all year long.
--- Doobieous <doobieous@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I bought a small plant of this at a local nursery.
> It
> was in good shape, no dead or dying leaves, a nice
> triple branching with relatively equal distance
> between the branches. It's also about a foot tall. I
> was already aware that this is a good beginner's
> protea, and from pictures I've seen a gorgeous
> cultivar.
>
> My questions are, at what size will a new plant of
> this cultivar begin flowering? As well as, how fast
> will it grow?
>
> The soil I have is derived from old sand dunes.
> We're
> back away from the coast, and it had been occupied
> by
> weedy annual grasses. It's had absolutely no
> cultivation since my parent's moved in (about 30
> years
> ago), so the sand is almost like it was when the
> house
> was built.
>
>
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