Re: Obscure Astelias
Moira - Many thanks for geography and plant-distribution lesson! Much
appreciated and v. enlightening. Though, as is usually the way with
such things, it also uncovers further areas of darkness - mine, that
is! Viz: if Aa nervosa and nivicola - ah, and A solandri as well -
don't come from NZ, yet are reasonably hardy in the UK (so not,
presumably, from Mauritius!), whence, pray, cometh they? One of the
smaller islands, such as Chatham?
Thanks for the plant-appearance lesson, too, BTW. Very useful, since
they're plants I don't know. A. banksii, in paricular, sounds
interesting - though I guess it wouldn't tolerate much if any frost?
And its drought-tolerance is hardly likely to be tested by an (as
ever) (join in the chorus if you wish...) wet and windy Solway
Firth...
Tim
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Tim Longville
