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Re: Leptospermum 'Henry Price'


Many thanks to Tim and Moira for their info. 

I suppose there IS a screwy kind of logic to a development which (it
seems) goes something like this: 

In area of origin A there is a plant which is basically white-flowered
but which occasionally produces a red or pink sport. Therefore it is
the red or pink sports from which hybrids will be developed. Said
hybrids will then then exported to area B, where, as a result, more or
less only red or pink forms are known. So, what do the oddity-spotters
and empty-niche-occupiers in area B promptly do? Yup, you guessed it,
folks. They hail as desirable rarities any WHITE forms which turn up -
said forms back in area of origin A being dismissed meanwhile as not
much more than weeds.

Gardening? A rational activity? Come ON...

Any Irish-based member out there (Val? Jane?) able to confirm the
Irishness of Leptospermum H.P. and/or offer any info about the
eponymous H.P. himself?

The hardiness of leptospermums outside their native areas is an
interesting question. Certainly all the leptos. I happened to see in
Ireland were L. scoparium and cultivars. (Not that I was poking
through the undergrowth looking for rare leptos. Well, not
PARTICULARLY for rare leptos....) 

I'd have thought, though, that quite a few other spp might be
feasible,  in favoured parts there and in the UK and around the Med.
Indeed, I know at least a few people in the UK who do have success
with other spp. Even this far north I've had some (limited; maybe
short-term: wait until the next hard winter...) success with spp such
as L. lanigerum, grandiflorum and, even - to my and Moira's
astonishment?! - rotundifolium - and am currently trying a few others.
Any Irish/British/Euro. members have more
info/species-suggestions/experiences to offer?


Tim Longville
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