Thread: Morton Bay fig
View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Old 16-12-2008, 10:42 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
K K is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Jul 2006
Posts: 1,966
Default Morton Bay fig

Dave Poole writes
It appears to be more cool tolerant than Ficus elastica and may even
cope with being grown out of doors in the mildest regions of the UK. I
received a seedling from a strain that is supposedly cold tolerant and
it has grown away quite well this summer. It has coped with our winter
far. Fingers crossed.


Mine copes with temperatures down to 0 deg C in a slightly heated
greenhouse. It likes to be watered throughout winter - droops its leaves
if it gets too dry.

"Plants for a future" lists it as being OK outside in Tresco but thinks
it's unlikely to survive on mainland.

It's attractive to scale insect, but otherwise isn't troubled by pests.
--
Kay