Re: Was re: Oleander, now best and worse
Dear Beverly,
I could not find a photo on the web of the eyesore. I suspect you are right,
however, since you guessed so immediately. Seedpods look like nasty pointy walnuts
more than lovable little boats. I don't remember the flowers much, but they are
bell-like. Maybe a redeeming feature? Anyway, do you know someone who might like
to run over to pick these up? There are only about a million of them everywhere I
look. They make good company for the oleanders. Thanks. Karen
Julius & Beverly Elischer wrote:
> Oh dear, one of ours I fear. Try Brachychiton populneum. A very useful tree in
> its native habitat (New South Wales) but a pest here in Western Australia. Does
> it have pinkish-cream bell-shaped flowers and are the seed pods shaped like
> little boats?
>
> Beverly
>
> Vavourakis wrote:
>
> > Oh Susannah, I am hurt about the photinia. I quite like the cute little
> > sprays of cream flowers and their coppery coloring habit that matches so
> > nicely (in an offhand way) with clay pots-if the davidii is the one I have.
> > And the fact that they need no care scores big with me, too.
> >
> > My own pet peeve is a tree I don't even know the name of...maybe someone out
> > there knows. It is a shorter, conical fast-growing evergreen thing commonly
> > used as a street tree here in Athens. It has a revolting greenish tinge to
> > its trunk and limbs and an abundance of ghastly blackish seed pods which have
> > irritating-to-sensitive-skin fibers inside. The leaves have three points I
> > think, and if the tree were deciduous, it would possibly look even worse.
> > The features I hate the most is the tapering trunk and the lollipop look of
> > it. Yuck ick. Get the chainsaw!
> >
> > Karen
> >
>
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> Julius and Beverly Elischer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Ph. +61 8 9386 5244
