Re: blooming Delonix
- Subject: Re: blooming Delonix
- From: J* S*
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:55:34 -0700 (PDT)
As my tired memory vaguely recalls, there was at least
one BLOOMING Delonix in Los Angeles. It was a big
tree on Ocean Avenue in West L.A./Santa Monica. A
hard freeze eventually killed it. That was many years
ago. I'm sure there were others in the area (also
eventually killed).
The San Diego Zoo has had Delonix blooming on
occasion. I don't know if there's any there at the
present time but I think it's one of those fantastic
trees which they plant semi-regularly and occasionally
get one big enough to bloom. With all the concrete
and asphalt and the mild micro-climate pockets there,
it would be easier there then most anywhere.
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California
--- david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Lee Poulsen <wlp@ampersand.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> wrote:
>
> > I've never seen any flowering Delonix regia in
> > Southern California
> > inland areas or in Palm Springs, but perhaps I
> never
> > happened to
> > drive past where they were growing when in bloom.
> > However, I've seen
> > a number of trees of it blooming in the small
> > fishing town of San
> > Felipe, Baja California, south of Yuma, Arizona on
> > the coast of the
> > Sea of Cortez.
>
> Lee,
> I have to admit that I have not actually seen
> Delonix
> blooming in L.A. either, but have it on good
> authority
> from my nurseryman friend Gary Hammer that there are
> some in Montebello as well as out in the desert that
> are growing and do bloom. As to how well they
> bloom,
> somehow I suspect that they aren't nearly as showy
> as
> they are in a more suitable climate. I suspect that
> San Felipe is probably a much better fit, although
> speaking from limited experience,(I was only there
> once during a rather chilly March), that they would
> do
> quite well there. Mango trees apparently are
> easier,
> as there is someone in Modesto that has a small tree
> located between the narrow side yard of two houses
> that regularly sets fruit! It must be the summer
> heat
> and somewhat enclosed microclimate, as they just
> seem
> to sulk along the coast, even at the Quail Botanic
> Garden and inside the greenhouse at UC Santa Cruz,
> where both trees I saw seemed to suffer mightily
> from
> bug infestations and lack of vigor. I remember what
> they should look like, as in Belem, Brazil, where
> they
> were probably 80 feet tall by wide, and often used
> as
> street trees for their dense shade.
>
>
>
> > Three or four years ago I gave my
> > aunt and uncle a
> > couple of seedlings of it to plant on the vacation
> > property they have
> > down there that they have a 99-year lease on. So
> far
> > they are growing
> > quite well. It gets quite hot in the summertime,
> and
> > is rather cool
> > in the winter. But I don't know how often they
> get
> > freezing weather
> > of any kind, if at all. Mango trees seem to do
> just
> > fine there as
> > well. (However, on the way back from lunch today
> by
> > a different
> > route, I was surprised to see a healthy looking
> > approx. 15-20 foot
> > tall mango tree in the middle of someone's yard
> here
> > in Pasadena!)
> >
> > --
> > --Lee Poulsen
> > Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
> > wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov
> >
>
>
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