Re: Chilopsis linearis and cultivars

Thank you, Chantal, for the compliment.  My plant originally came from Jean-Jacques Viguier who used to be an advisor at the local Chambre d'Agriculture and has been an incredible  source of  help and inspiration to an Englishwoman wanting to set up a small nursery in southern France.

My Chilopsis (near Carcassonne) have survived winter lows of -10°C and are both in places with no supplementary summer irrigation.  I haven't met any of the cultivars in southern France - if they set seed and if anyone would be willing to send me some seed - I would love to try and see if we can get some different colour breaks for around here.

Gill Pound
La Petite Pépinière de Caunes
21, av de la Montagne Noire,
11160 Caunes-Minervois
France
www.lapetitepepiniere.com

On 09/10/2010 09:46, Chantal Guiraud wrote:
Hello,


I am growing the true species here in Montpellier (France) and have a very long flowering season from june till end of september with nice rose lilac flowers. I water 2 or 3 times a week in summer and I have got seed pods for the first time this year. It was planted in october 2006. I was looking for these as, now, I can give seeds to the MGS seed list and can share my crop. I do love this tree but here it is not evergreen in winter.
I bought it from Gill Pound, a very good french nursery close to me.

Chantal Guiraud
MGS Seed Coordinator



Le 7 oct. 10 à 15:26, Ben Wiswall a écrit :



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