Re: Corokia 'Coppershine'

Tim Longville wrote:
> 
> Parker: No, it does exist - though I don't know whether it exists in
> the US. Several UK nurseries offer it - eg Burncoose and Southdown in
> Cornwall. I think it's originally a New Zealand creation. (Moira, Tim:
> am I right?) I don't think it's up to much myself but then I'm not a
> great lover of most corokias. (Soft spot for C. buddleoides excepted,
> simply because here it's starred with its little yellow flowers just
> about every day of the year: hardly showy but encouraging when the
> weather is particularly bleak-mid-winter-ish.)

Hi Tim
I think not NZ bred, as it doesn't occur in Metcalf's check list.

There is a whole series of bronze-leafed forms of C virgata with more
pretentious names than they actually merit (in my opinion) - we have 
Bronze King, Knight and Lady. I think anyway "Coppershine" sounds a
rather inappropriate name for a Corokia, as by no stretch of imagination
could you call their leaves shiny (unlike the Coprosma, for which it is
entirely appropriate,- at least one Coprosma (C.repens)is known locally
as Mirror Plant).

Corokias are seen here mainly in dry and exposed gardens and have also
gained a certain popularity as topiary subjects. They are certainly neat
foliaged, cast-iron easy and quietly pretty in flower and some berry
very pleasantly.

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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