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Totara 'Aurea' and Dendrobium kingii.
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Totara 'Aurea' and Dendrobium kingii.
Totara 'aurea'
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Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:19 pm |
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Adrian
Joined: Sun Feb 07, 2016 7:32 pm Posts: 185 Location: Folkestone Kent UK
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Re: Totara 'Aurea' and Dendrobium kingii.
Are these from Berkeley Stan?.............Here's my Podocarpus totara Aurea. Can you spot the deliberate mistake?
Clue: Not only is it directly under the electricity supply to my house it's also planted within feet of the wall of my house (Podocarpus being one of the tallest trees on the planet), although I think the yellow one is a lot shorter in stature than the ordinary green one! (hopefully anyway).
Adrian
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Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:29 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Totara 'Aurea' and Dendrobium kingii.
Very lush Podocarpus Adrian. I didn't know that they grew in the U.K. Its interesting that it looks much more full then what we grow here. The English wetter climate at work. The bay area is a mix of Pacific Northwest and the Dry Southwest. Some years more one then the other. What's that saying? Jack of all trades and master of none?..Its like that. We don't grow better conifers or Japanese maples then the Northwest....or better Pachypodiums then the southwest on the other end of the spectrum.
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Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:03 pm |
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davidmdzn7
Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:01 pm Posts: 412 Location: Maryland, USA
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Re: Totara 'Aurea' and Dendrobium kingii.
"I didn't know that they grew in the U.K." Why wouldn't they? The milder parts of the UK are broadly closer in climate to NZ than California is, although, yes, the difference in minimal temperatures can make up for it when you take into account the more tender items. Conifers usually aren't on that tender list. I am sure every conifer native to NZ will grow somewhere in the UK...but of course not every conifer _cultivated_ in NZ.
Ok...Cistus sold the pendulous form of totara a couple years ago, called it zone 7 hardy* so I dutifully ordered one. Now having seen some large ones in AU & NZ, both pendulous and typical forms...I can say it's a relief to have a rare plant I won't be losing any sleep over. The pendulous form isn't that pendulous, and generally speaking it just isn't a very spectacular or interesting conifer. Like Keteleeria, it just looks to my eyes like wonky cross between a hemlock and a yew. It's no Sciadopitys, Rimu, Taiwania, Agathis, or Celery Pine. Even my Cephalotaxus fortunei is bolder. At least the yellow totara is, well, yellow! I will probably keep it just to see what happens, and merely for the noteworthy aspect of it being a conifer from NZ.
But thanks for sharing the picture. I probably saw it but was so overwhelmed by everything else at Berkeley that it didn't register!
* which most certainly does not mean it is lol
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