RE: Dais cotinifolia in a pot?
- Subject: RE: Dais cotinifolia in a pot?
- From: d* f* <d*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:10:31 -0700 (PDT)
I doubt that Dais cotiniifolia will be a pest with reseeding in a Mediterranean climate area, I am pretty sure it would need summer rainfall climate such as south Florida or Hawaii, or in California; heavy summer irrigation to even have a chance of reseeding itself in a garden setting, and it is way too dry in southern California for this to survive in the wild, although it could potentially reseed if planted next to a riparian area with disturbed soils and year round water, similar to Sapium sebiferum or Tamarix.
--- On Sat, 9/12/09, nancy@winterwarmfarm.net <nancy@winterwarmfarm.net> wrote:
> From: nancy@winterwarmfarm.net <nancy@winterwarmfarm.net>
> Subject: RE: Dais cotinifolia in a pot?
> To: "'david feix'" <davidfeix@yahoo.com>, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 1:11 PM
> Thank you, David. Sun and heat are
> not a problem here :-).
>
> I'd like to try the container route because our
> Mediterranean botanical
> garden is full (of large plants, anyway), we have a
> courtyard where a potted
> tree could go, I thought perhaps if it weren't in the
> ground it might
> present less of a problem with seedlings everywhere, and I
> was intrigued by
> the photographs and descriptions, especially of the
> fragrance. I don't
> recall ever seeing or smelling one of these trees in bloom
> and I guess a
> potted plant feels like less of a commitment. We could
> always find a place
> for it in the ground if we really like it.
>
> Nancy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david feix [d*@yahoo.com]
>
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:43 PM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu;
> nancy@winterwarmfarm.net
> Subject: Re: Dais cotinifolia in a pot?
>
> I've got one growing now for three years in a 15 gallon
> sized container, and
> the plant is about 7 foot tall. I had originally
> gotten it as a small
> seedling grown 4 inch pot from Annie's Annuals.
> Almost anything can be
> grown indefinitely as a container plant if given good care,
> but I suspect
> this would have grown both larger and perhaps already be
> blooming if it had
> been planted directly in the ground. I don't really
> have full sun or summer
> heat in my front Berkeley garden, so it may have already
> bloomed if it had
> been getting more sun/heat. I like the plant for the
> foliage and texture
> alone, but do look forward to eventually seeing it bloom,
> or getting it into
> a garden setting. Is there a particular reason you
> want to keep it as a
> container plant?
>
> --- On Sat, 9/12/09, nancy@winterwarmfarm.net
> <nancy@winterwarmfarm.net>
> wrote:
>
> > From: nancy@winterwarmfarm.net
> <nancy@winterwarmfarm.net>
> > Subject: Dais cotinifolia in a pot?
> > To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> > Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 11:21 AM
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Has anyone had
> > experience with or have an opinion of the likelihood
> > of success of growing a dais cotinifolia in a pot?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Nancy Mueller
> > Fallbrook,
> > CA
>
>
