Re: Embothrium
There are a number of Embothriums being grown here in Victoria, B.C.
Canada as well. They certainly do flower and some of them set seed.
I have a potted seedling raised from some of that seed at the moment.
We are Zone 8, and can be described as "Short Summer Mediterranean".
At 7:47 PM -0700 10/6/00, david feix wrote:
>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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