Re: Aucuba japonica
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- Subject: Re: Aucuba japonica
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 02:51:44 -0400
Harry, I've always considered my garden in zone 7a - figure I'm about the
same as you - just around the beltway....where is 6c?:-)
I have blackened stems and leaves in very bitter winters, but they always
come back and re-leaf out - and these are in a very sheltered position.
So, rather doubt they are very hardy in z. 5 and 6.
Glad someone else said take cuttings - meant to before I went out of town
and didn't get there. Aucuba is very easy from cuttings, in my experience.
Would be extraordinarily nice if your golden branch is propagate-able that
way...who knows, you may have a "new" plant on your hands!! If it is, I am
first in line at plant exchange for one of those babies:-) Dibs, Dibs!
Have plants, will trade:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Harry Dewey <harryd@Kreative.net>
> Date: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 12:56 PM
>
> Thanks to Janis and Don Martinson for your very helpful comments about my
> golden-leaved Aucuba japonica. And my apologies for not having examined
> more thoroughly my brand-new Dirr's encyclopedia. I bought it by mail
from
> the American Horticultural Society. Their publicity did give both title
and
> subtitle, but didn't mention that Dirr says in his preface that it is
> designed for zones 6 and colder. I'm at the edge of zone 6c, and I guess
> I'm just lucky never to have lost an aucuba.
>
> I particularly like Don's suggestion that I try rooting cuttings before
> attempting my neighbor's rather drastic proposal (to cut off all stems
with
> green leaves). I wonder if aucubas are, like a good many plants,
untested
> in more northern climes. Hortus 3, which I've now consulted thanks to
Don's
> suggestion, says aucubas are for zone 8! I wonder how far up in zone 6
they
> survive, and does anyone in zone 5 have one?
>
> Harry Dewey, Beltsville, Maryland, zone 6c
>
>
>
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