Re: Fremontodendron germination

Can't help with the germination or longevity but I can testify to its speed
of growth & toughness. I love it but I mistakenly planted it next to my
front door before I knew its growth rate and that all parts are covered with
a highly irritant bloom that you only have to look at to be covered in -
that will teach me to do my homework. It's got to go but I'm hoping to
strike a few cuttings so I can replant its clones somewhere more out of the
way.

I've noticed the same 'bloom' problem with some abutilons.
Veronica
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Harrar <paul@nevco.k12.ca.us>
To: kk@netgate.net <kk@netgate.net>; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
<medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: 07 September 1999 22:39
Subject: Re: Fremontodendron germination


>I'd be interested in the same info about germination. As for growth rate
>... here, I have one specimen that I purchased four years ago as a
>4-foot shrub (5 gallon container) with quite a few branches. It's now
>over 12 feet tall and just as wide. It is in a partially shady location
>and has become leggy and tall because of that, I suppose. But I'm
>worried about its longterm health, because in the last two years, I have
>seen two other very large, mature shrubs growing on the sides of roads
>die for unknown reasons. Tragic. They're such spectacular plants when
>mature. Has anyone noticed mature Fremontodendrons dying this year. I
>kept thinking it was the wet winters we've had lately, but the dead
>plants are near others of the same size that seem uneffected. Anyone
>know long do these plants live?
>
>Paul Harrar
>Nevada City, CA, USA
>Sunset Zone 7
>2,700 ft.
>
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