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Re: [PRIMROSES] Australian Tree Fern

>However....last year I went to a Home Depot store and spied a tree
>fern.  "Well, isn't that interesting....I wonder what kind it is for
>only $19.95".  It was 5 feet tall and at LEAST that big across.  Lo and
>behold.....it WAS a dicksonia!!

Sounds like a such a deal! I paid 6 dollars for a very small one. I heard
from someone in Tasmania that large ones go for 100s of dollars in places
around the world!

>  In talking to a large commercial grower from Canada, he said it very
>well could winter here, as there is a 12' speciman in Seattle.  That
>plant is well wrapped in burlap to overwinter, but it makes it.

I have heard this also, I would worry about those occasional artic blasts,
with a tree that size I would really worry about losing it once it attained
that stature. Obviously works!

I hope you let us know when you get seedlings. I am only an hour away will
drive!
:)

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Debra Teachout-Teashon
Pacific Northwest Gardening
Fuchsias Grow Great in the Pacific Northwest!
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