Re: Embothrium

Regarding Embothrium, it can be grown in the San
Francisco Bay Area, although it is quite rare here. 
There is a a very beautiful specimen growing in
Harland Hand's garden in El Cerrito, which blooms
reliably every year, and has even set seed.  The small
tree is about 15 feet tall.  This garden is in the fog
belt of the east bay hills, and gets alot more
humidity and fog drip as a result, and is considerably
more moist than down in the flatlands of Berkeley
where I garden.  Harland had amended the whole garden
with a local product called supersoil, and the garden
receives overhead spray irrigation every 3 to 4 days
in the dry months.
The garden is well worth a visit, and is open to the
general public during the Garden Conservancy Tour
dates for the Bay Area, as recently as last weekend...




- Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> William Bade wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't taken part in this discussion yet, but
> would like to add that
> > there were laburnums in Danish gardens when we
> lived there. We were
> > cautioned that they were poisonous, and that I
> should watch my children
> > when they played in the garden.
> > I have always wondered about the soil they need,
> as well as the climate.
> > I was told that there was no place in Denmark
> further than 40 miles from
> > the water, and we did have moist air and a lovely
> light which I felt was
> > reflection from the water (Bornholm had it
> especially). In some places
> > the soil was chalky, a vein that ran from the
> island of Mon across Denmark
> > to the Dover Cliffs. Is this why they are more
> successful there?
> > To add another element. I have been told that
> Embothrium is not success-
> > fully grown in the San Francisco Bay Area because
> it needs moist air too.
> > Could this be the reason?
> 
>  Elly 
> Although it doesn't actually NEED a limy soil
> Laburnum, being a legume
> would certainly enjoy it and I am equally sure it
> would prefer a cool,
> moist climate like Britain or Denmark to the hot
> part of California.
> 
> Embothrium also, as you suggest, likes a moist cool
> climate, or at the
> least a cool root run, but it can't abide lime.
> 
> Moira
> 
> -- 
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New
> Zealand)
> 


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