Oh Chookie!!!
You are a Sydney Sider and haven't visited Mount Wilson?? They are growing
in Paddocks up there with no trees for a hundred metres.
What are we talking about here? Cyatheas or Dicksonias? Two very distinct
vspecies.


"Chookie" wrote in message
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In article ,
"The Lady Gardener" wrote:

I have a tree fern that is about 5 years old, poor thing has struggled
for
all 5 years as I planted it in full sun, and the recent days of 42+ have
really convinced me that it was ill-sited!

Oh dear. They are forest plants AFAIK. Do you have a tree to plant it
under? Failing that, perhaps a spot on the south or south-eastern side of
your house?

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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