Re: Trees in Coronado, San Diego
- Subject: Re: Trees in Coronado, San Diego
- From: J* S*
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
David:
I'm a San Diego baby and I used to spend many
summers on/in Coronado. The gardens there are
fabulous. Lots of interesting tropical things that
don't do well in San Diego proper because of frost.
On the other hand, many great FLOWERING tropicals
didn't seem very floriferous there because of the lack
of accumulated heat.
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--- david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Also, is Ficus religiosa a
> reliable performing tree in sunset zone 24?
*** I've seen a few Bo trees in San Diego, almost all
of them in some kind of protected situation. Where
frost was a problem, they were poor growers. Where
wind was a problem (in Coronado, for instance), they
became ugly. I remember a HUGE one in Coronado, in an
Admiral's courtyard garden near "North Island", that
had to be pruned regularly because it had grown so
big. Unfortunately, the pruning wasn't the most
masterful.
> Also, we are considering planting some
> Royal
> Palms, Roystonea regia in this project, or King
> Palms
> as a fall back. I've seen Royal Palms in Los
> Angeles,
> but not familiar with any in Coronado, or coastal
> San
> Diego city.
*** I remember a few Roystoneas planted in Coronado.
Not at their tropical best. Probably lacks the heat.
A lot of King Palms there are doing fine. (I even
remember a few true coconut palms planted many years
ago in Coronado; I'm sure they're all gone now.)
Rhopalostylis is happy there.
> And this one is way out there, but the
> heat today is making me feel tropical; has anyone
> ever
> seen or grown Indian Almond, Terminalia cattapa in
> San
> Diego? It seems to me that it ought to be able to
> be
> grown there.
*** I know of some great Terminalias in Santa Monica
but I don't believe I ever saw one in San Diego
anywhere. Two sources that might know: the hort folks
at the San Diego Zoo (the only truly great botanical
garden in San Diego) and Steve Brigham (Cordon Bleu
Farms?), a collector of tropicalia.
> Also, the same question for Tabebuia
> chrysotricha, Bauhinia purpurea or B. blakeana, do
> these bloom well in Sunset zone 24/beach conditions?
>
*** All the best Tabebuias I've seen in So. Cal. were
inland. Those on the coast just limped along
ungracefully and unfloriferously.
*** I can't remember ever seeing a "bad" Bauhinia near
the coast. Probably the best blooming Bauhinia I've
seen out there is B. galpinii (although not a tree).
Good luck on your fun project,
Joe Seals,
San Diego baby now living in Santa Maria
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