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"Bob Hobden" writes:
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| So it's well drained, if it's also sunny how about Albizia julibrissin, the
| Silk Tree. Can take the cold to a point, -12°C in a friends garden, but not
| cold with wet roots hence my comment about well drained. Similar but
| slightly bigger eventually is Acacia dealbata what we call Mimosa
| (N.Americans call the other one Mimosa)

Summers are too bloody cold for the former - I have one, but it isn't
growing, as the new wood fails to ripen enough to come through the
winter. Acacia dealbata isn't much easier in most parts.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.