Re: Obscure Astelias and others
Moira -
>All three of the Astelias
>you mention here -nervosa, nivicola and solandri- are good New
>Zealamders, and I am sure I have already sent you detailed descriptions
>of each (if you can't find them I can repost them, but you might have to
>wait awhile, as I am a bit snowed under just now).
I can't find those descriptions and I don't remember having them. A
glitch in the system or in my memory or quite possibly in both?! If
you could eventually find time to re-post, I'd be very grateful.
Many thanks for the info. re Grass Trees (thanks for correction in
name-order, too: I'll pass it on to my octogenarian friend - at least
I'm momentarily one up on him re the name, if many steps behind re the
cultivation!). I'll also pass on your suggestion of D. latifolium as a
good one to try. Since he's obviously found a source of seed for the
others, perhaps he can find one for that species as well. The thought
of the eventual flowers (after how many years, I wonder - or
alternatively, at what size?) makes them sound even *more* attractive.
(How big *do* these creatures eventually grow, BTW?)
And, yes, Margaret mailed me privately to say, among other things,
that D. mulliganii is indeed Australian.
Best wishes -
Tim
Tim Longville
